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Addiction & neuroscience

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Anna Lembke on the Neuroscience of Addiction: Our Dopamine Nation | Rich Roll Podcast

Psychiatrist and Stanford professor Dr. Anna Lembke joins Rich to discuss the neuroscience of modern addiction, dopamine fasting, the opioid crisis and more.

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Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All into Dopamine Addicts

According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

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Addiction and Trust: Marc Lewis at TEDxRadboudU 2013

A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve.

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The Secret Power of Pain: Here’s How to Make Friends with It, Says Psychiatrist Anna Lembke

We sat down with Dr. Lembke to talk to her about why the things we turn to to feel better may actually be doing more harm than good, and what we can do instead.

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Why Do Our Brains Get Addicted?

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

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01:56:13

Breaking Bad (Habits): Dr. Jud Brewer | Rich Roll Podcast

This is a powerful and potentially life altering conversation about the nature of addiction and the science of habit change.

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01:00:48

The Neuroscience of Addiction - with Marc Lewis

In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain disease, and treated it as such. But in this riveting and provocative talk, neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes the convincing case that addiction isn’t a disease at all.

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How Addiction Changes Your Brain

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says the brain is "rewired" when someone becomes addicted.

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An Addiction Specialist Reveals What Happens to Your Brain on Ecstasy

Ecstasy, also known as Molly or MDMA, is a popular illegal drug in the dance party scene. However, in recent months the FDA has approved its usage in clinical trials to treat PTSD.

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The Teenage Brain Is Primed for Addiction

We tend to think of addiction as an adult problem, but drug abuse starts, overwhelmingly, in adolescence.

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