Psychology Update — TEDMED – Talk Details – Why do our brains get addicted?

Posted May 1st, 2023 by David Berg & filed under Addiction, Brain Structure and Function, Introduction To Psychology, Nervous System, Psychological Disorders and Therapy, Psychology Update, Psychology Video of the Week, Psychology Website of the Week, Stress and Health Psychology, Ted Talk.

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TEDMED – Talk Details – Why do our brains get addicted?

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From the TedMed Talk Site

This includes a 16 minute Ted Talk by Dr. Volkow.

“Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, will apply a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.

“We already have the tools to address the problems of obesity and addiction.” — Nora Volkow

“Nora Volkow is a world leader in the neurobiology of diseases of reward and self-control such as addiction and obesity. Nora was born in Mexico City, where she lived until she completed medical school. While training as a psychiatrist in New York City, she started doing research with brain imaging technologies to study how drugs affect the human brain. Nora’s research has been instrumental in demonstrating that addiction is a brain disease that undermines the function of circuits that underlie reward, motivation and self-control—and in identifying overlapping circuitry disruptions in obesity. Nora is currently the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at NIH, which oversees most of the world’s research on drug abuse and addiction.”

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TedMed (July 23, 2014) (see link below)