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How the Brain Learns and Remembers

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  By Tayren Ben-Abraham MPH, MSc, M.A. M.A.  Founder & Principal Investigator, Ben-Abraham Center for Environmental Health Sciences (BAEHS)                      Figure 1. Child learning through reading a book. Source: powerofpositivity.com                                                           Learning begins when an organism encounters an experience. The nervous system receives information from the external and internal environment, processes that information, and changes in response to it. Through learning, organisms can change behavior based on experience, gain information, develop skills, recognize patterns, form associations, and respond to environmental changes (Fuchs et al., 2023). The fundamental biological property that makes ...
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BAEHS Foundational Fundraising Campaign

  🔬🌎 Help Build the Ben-Abraham Center for Environmental Health Sciences I’m excited to share an important milestone in the development of the Ben-Abraham Center for Environmental Health Sciences (BAEHS) . BAEHS is being established as an independent scientific research organization focused on investigating how environmental exposures affect human health through toxicology, neuroscience, epidemiology, computational modeling, and related environmental health sciences. After months of planning, research development, governance work, and institutional preparation, BAEHS has now taken another major step forward: our Articles of Incorporation were filed in California on September 2, 2026. We have now launched the BAEHS Founding Fund to help provide the initial resources needed to establish the organization and begin building its research infrastructure. 💚 If you believe independent scientific research matters, I invite you to become an early supporter of BAEHS. Every ...
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Detox Products Under the Microscope: What Does the Evidence Show? by Tayren N. Ben-Abraham, MPH, MSc., M.A., M.A.

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                                              Figure 1. Detox Supplements. Source: Amazon.com You may have seen products that promise to “detox” your body. They come as teas, pills, powders, juices, drinks, supplements, foot baths, and special diets. Different practitioners in the wellness industry use names like purification, cleanse, elimination, decontamination, rejuvenation, revitalization, restoration, or even the deceptive term rehabilitation or rehab. The last term used primarily in the sense of someone who is going through the process of stopping regular usage and abstaining from use of alcohol or some other addictive substance. These terms are purposefully chosen to increase credibility based on the association with evidence based medical treatments. Advertisements may claim that these products remove harmful toxins, clean your liver, increase your energy, help you...
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