The Molecule of More

THE MOLECULE OF MORE WHY MOM WANTS YOU TO WAIT UNTIL YOU’RE MARRIED Though changes in culture have made the attitude passé in so ...

LOVE Shawn had gained a little weight, but Samantha found him more attrac- tive than ever. Shawn thought Samantha looked better ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE does, but has the power to deliver happiness—long-term happiness based on H&N neurotransmitters such as ...

LOVE FURTHER READING Fowler, J. S., Volkow, N. D., Wolf, A. P., Dewey, S. L., Schlyer, D. J., MacGregor, R. R.,... Christman, D. ...

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Chapter 2 DRUGS You want it... but will you like it? In which dopamine overwhelms reason to create consuming desire for the most ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE WHO’S IN CONTROL OF YOUR BRAIN? At some point, everyone asks the question, why? Why do I do the things that ...

DRUGS on nothing but a gut feeling that it was the right one. Only once in a while do we sit down to consider our options ration ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE through the brain until they reach a place called the nucleus accumbens. When these long-tailed cells are a ...

DRUGS For a biological organism, the most important goal related to the future is to be alive when it comes. As a result, the do ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE WHY WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF PHANTOMS When Andrew saw an attractive woman, getting her into bed became the mos ...

DRUGS But even if the name seems committed to memory, it almost always fades quickly. Important names—those of people who can  a ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE of all possible worlds, and that makes the future more attractive. On the other hand, the present is real. ...

DRUGS Thus we see three possible solutions to buyer’s remorse: (1) chase the dopamine high by buying more, (2) avoid the dopamin ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE on to other things. Alcohol no longer played a central role in their lives. But Andrew, for whom a bar was ...

DRUGS Alan Leshner, the former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said that drugs “hijack” the desire circuit. Th ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE are  perfectly logical. If someone offered you  a  choice between a  meal  at a nice restaurant, even the n ...

DRUGS Drugs destroy the delicate balance that the brain needs to func- tion normally. Drugs stimulate dopamine release no matter ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE THE REASON ADDICTS THINK SMOKING CRACK IS BETTER THAN SNORTING COCAINE The ability to trigger dopamine in t ...

DRUGS Figure 2 The slope of the line indicates how quickly the level of the drug—in this case, alcohol—is rising in the brain. A ...