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How The Brain Forms New Habits:
Why Willpower Is Not Enough
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How The Brain Forms New Habits:
Why Willpower Is Not Enough
A Seminar for Health Professionals
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How The Brain Forms New Habits:
Why Willpower Is Not Enough
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Why are habits so difficult to change? Habits govern how we think and
act. They influence who needs care and who stays well in medical, dental,
psychological, and educational settings. This 6-hour seminar describes
how the brain forms new habits and how to facilitate meaningful change.
Participants completing the program should be able to:
1) Name several characteristics of reward-centered habits.
2) Identify several evidence-based strategies for managing rewardcentered habits.
3) Describe how threat-based mental habits are connected to maladaptive
emotions and actions.
4) List one or more strategies for coping adaptively with threat-based
mental habits.
5) Identify several evidence-based principles for initiating and
maintaining health-promoting habits.
Reward-Centered Habits
• Understanding Reward-Centered Habits: overeating, drinking,
smoking and other risky behaviors; how do they become addictive?
• Neurotransmitters: pursuit of immediate gratification,
“wanting” and dopamine; “liking” and opiate peptides;
withdrawal and serotonin deficiency.
• Features of Addiction: compulsive reward-seeking, dependence,
withdrawal and reinstatement of craving.
• Addictive Features of Comfort Foods: dopamine and craving for
fatty foods; serotonin and craving for carbohydrates; opiates and
sweets; how feeling bad about weight can stimulate eating.
• Storehouse of Addictive Habits: how the basal ganglia recall skilled
movements associated with reward-based obsessions and compulsions.
• Changing Reward-Based Habits: how the frontal lobes can inhibit
old habits and initiate new ones by reprogramming the basal ganglia.
Using Your Brain To Form New Habits
• Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex: developing flexible plans of action
to set goals and handle lapses; cues to remind of adaptive habits.
• Ventral Striatum: preventing dopamine deprivation that results
in overvaluing unhealthy rewards; reward substitution strategies
through healthy pleasures and social support.
• Anterior Cingulate Cortex: maintaining motivation by learning
how to regulate mood and positive expectations; reassessing values
and goals to unlearn bad habits linked to situational triggers.
• Temporal Lobe Neocortex: applying cognitive behavioral therapies
to reinterpret events in a way that leads to meaningful change.
Threat-Based Mental Habits
• Stress-Based Habits: how stress can increase impulsivity and
negative emotions; how a sense of control can decrease them.
• Generalized Anxiety: exaggerated fear of physical or psychological
danger; fear conditioning and the amygdala.
• Recurrent Anger: persistent resentment over injustices across time,
place and person; the role of prefrontal cognitive distortion.
• Depression: persistent negative thoughts of self in relation to the
past, present and future, e.g., rumination and the central role of the
anterior cingulate gyrus.
• OCD: repeated alerting or doubting about safety; repetitive acts to
ward off danger and the role of the basal ganglia.
• Chronic Pain: fear of injury and compulsive avoidance of movement,
amplification of negative emotion, and the fight-or-flight response.
Overcoming Threat-Based Mental Habits
• Cataloguing Automatic Thoughts: a systematic approach to
identifying thoughts and situational triggers, counter-conditioning to
institute competing positive thoughts.
• Graded Exposure To One’s Fears: how this approach can reduce
threat-based signals originating from the amygdala and cerebral cortex.
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT): testing automatic thoughts
for their accuracy, reframing maladaptive thoughts that trigger
anxiety, anger, sadness, and shame; using temporal lobe neocortex to
help revise prefrontal habit programming.
• Positive Psychology: how identifying and deploying strengths can
stimulate optimism, self-efficacy and, readiness to change, reduce
impulsivity and activate motivational circuits of the cingulate gyrus
and positive habits of gratitude, compassion and joy.
• Mindfulness: how focused awareness inhibits automatic thoughts
through subcortical circuits underlying attention; the power of
stopping to smell the roses; pathways to mindfulness.
Initiating And Maintaining Healthful Habits
• Preschool: early habits that affect the lifelong risk of addiction and
chronic disease, how to instill and reinforce positive habits.
• Repetition of Skilled Movements: how long a habit must be
practiced before becoming automatic, e.g., hand-washing, oral
hygiene, safety precautions.
• Temporal Habits: procrastination, scheduling physical activity, pilltaking, sleep hygiene, goal setting, self-monitoring.
• Spatial Habits: using reminders to simplify, reduce clutter,
and shape the environment to support goals.
• Habit Substitution: guidelines for adopting a new habit to
inhibit an old one.
• Mastering The Five Brain Challenges: taming immediate
gratification, valuing healthy pursuits, enhancing resilience
to stress, retraining addiction circuits, and empowering the
prefrontal cortex.
About the Instructor
Paul J. Kenny, Ph.D. (Scripps Research Institute,
Jupiter, Florida), a neurobiologist, is internationally
recognized for his contributions to the study of
addictive habits including food addictions. He is the
author of numerous scientific publications and his
research has been funded by the National Institutes
of Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Dr. Kenny’s research on food addictions has been
featured on ABC, CBS, CNN and Good Morning America.
An outstanding and personable speaker, health professionals highly
recommend his seminars for his special ability to present practical
discoveries with clarity, warmth and humor. In addition to Q & A sessions
in class, Dr. Kenny will answer your questions during the second half of
the lunch break and by email after the program concludes.
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