It’s the most wonderful time for a beer: 10 tips to control holiday drinking
The holidays are a time of festivities, joy, family, and friends. It’s also a time of stress, material consumption, and lots of drinking. As someone anonymously put it, “What does alcohol have to do with Christmas? One makes the other … Continue reading →
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Why people develop a drug of choice
by Dr. Fernandez addiction, Addiction Facts, dopamine, drugs, mental illness, self-medication hypothesis, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment
This is the last installment of a five part series on the neurobiology of addiction by Jennifer Fernández, PhD. Follow along on Power Over Addiction or Facebook. Drug of choice can say a lot about a person or what they’re … Continue reading →
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Neurotransmitters and Addiction
by Dr. Fernandez addiction, addiction and the brain, Addiction Facts, cocaine, dopamine, neurotran, psychology, substance abuse
This is the fourth installment of a five part series on the neurobiology of addiction by Jennifer Fernández, PhD. Follow along on Power Over Addiction or Facebook. In the previous installment of this series, we learned that dopamine is responsible … Continue reading →
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This is your brain on drugs. For real.
by Dr. Fernandez addiction, Addiction Facts, brain on drugs, cocaine, dopamine, drugs, neuron, neurotransmission, neurotransmitters, reuptake, substance abuse
This is the third installment of a five part series on the neurobiology of addiction by Jennifer Fernández, PhD. Follow along on Power Over Addiction or Facebook. Addiction is scary. It has caused pain in many people’s lives and has … Continue reading →
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The Neurocircuitry of Addiction
This is the second installment of a five part series on the neurobiology of addiction by Jennifer Fernández, PhD. Follow along on Power Over Addiction or Facebook. Addiction causes changes to brain structures that regulate pleasure, motivation, and decision making. … Continue reading →
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The Neurobiology of Addiction
by Dr. Fernandez addiction, Addiction Facts, Addiction Research, biopsychosocial, disease model, self-medication hypothesis, theories of addiction
This is the first installment of a five part series on the neurobiology of addiction by Jennifer Fernández, PhD. Follow along on Power Over Addiction or Facebook. Addiction is a biopsychosocial phenomenon that affects over 20 million people in the … Continue reading →
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Zap away cocaine addiction with lasers! or magnets!
by Dr. Fernandez addiction, Addiction Research, addiction treatment, cocaine, cocaine addiction, prefrontal cortex, TMS
Researchers at the National Institute of Health and UCSF claim to have stopped and started cocaine addiction in rats with the use of laser stimulation to the prefrontal cortex, the brain region where decision making and impulse control take place. “When … Continue reading →
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