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The Neuroscience of Addiction - With Marc Lewis

The Royal Institution via YouTube

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This talk presents Marc Lewis’s challenge to the disease model of addiction. It explains addiction through neural learning, neuroplasticity, brain activation, and a developmental approach to treatment and recovery.

Syllabus

Intro
Addiction defined as a brain disease
Reinterpreting the neural data...
Addiction is really a kind of skill... ...the addict's brain learns to efficiently identify and aim behaviour
Behavioural addictions change the brain in almost exactly the same way as substance addictions
Cycle of brain activation
2. Now Appeal
3. Ego fatigue
Just say "no"?
In sum: brain change with addiction
The disease model of addiction isn't just wrong...
Why the disease model fails addicts
So how do we help addicts feel empowered?
Treatment works by connecting...

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  • Daniel Ru$$ell
    Great information, and I like the way that the presenter made the information very easy to digest. I found that the presentation was kind of short but I would be very interested in learning more from this instructor.
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