Dr. Kowalczyk teaches about addiction using reward models. According to Dr. Kowalczyk, addiction is motivated by pleasure seeking.
What is addiction?
- A persistent and strong drive to participate in particular actions, frequently the use of a drug, despite obvious damage and other unfavorable effects, is the hallmark of addiction, a neuropsychological condition.
- Repeated drug use frequently affects brain chemistry in ways that exacerbate craving and impair self-control.
- Brain receptors get overloaded in an addicted person.
- A similar adaptation to dialing down a loudspeaker's volume when the noise gets too loud is the brain's reduction in dopamine production or elimination of dopamine receptors.
- Mesolimbic dopamine pathway is the name of the region of the brain that causes addiction. It is referred to as the brain's "reward circuit" at times.
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