The Molecule of More

THE MOLECULE OF MORE one side of a tennis court. There’s plenty of room there, and when the vaporized cocaine hits  the  lungs,  ...

DRUGS Inexperienced drinkers get the two confused. They start drinking, push their blood alcohol level up, and experience the pl ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE Patrick Kennedy, the former U.S. representative for Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District, and son of t ...

DRUGS reward fails  to  materialize, the  dopamine firing rate  drops to  zero, and  that feels terrible. That’s why a dopamine ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE drugs such as heroin and OxyContin scramble both the desire circuit and the liking circuit (where dopamine ...

DRUGS stimulates additional dopamine release, but it’s cheaper and easier to get. Nicotine, in fact, is an unusual drug because ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE translate our inner world of ideas into action, the way we impose our will upon the world. When there is no ...

DRUGS On March 10, 2012, lawyers for Ian,^2 a sixty-six-year-old resident of Melbourne, Australia, filed a statement of claim  i ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE more often. Both he and his wife worked full time, and because of her busy  schedule, she found it difficul ...

DRUGS to confession on a regular basis, and received emotional support that helped him cut back his viewing habits. But when his ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE and alcohol are a larger public health problem because they are so easy to  obtain. In  fact,  the  most ef ...

DRUGS As with drugs, habituation can also occur with pornography, in which the starting “dose” no longer works as well. When sex ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE consequences from playing video games. Adolescent brains, however, have not yet fully developed, so adolesc ...

DRUGS errors, no dopamine. If, on the other hand, you had to open a thousand chests to  find  a  single gem, it  would be  so  f ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE Many video games are also beautiful, another way of stimulating H&N delight. Some of them are, in fact, ...

DRUGS there’s also opposition within the future-oriented dopamine system itself. Why would the brain develop circuits that work ...

THE MOLECULE OF MORE FURTHER READING Pfaus, J. G., Kippin, T. E., & Coria-Avila, G. (2003). What can animal models tell us a ...

DRUGS Dixon, M.,  Ghezzi, P.,  Lyons, C.,  &  Wilson, G.  (Eds.). (2006). Gambling: Behavior theory, research, and applicati ...

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Chapter 3 DOMINATION How far will you go? In which dopamine drives us to overcome complexity, adversity, emotion, and pain so we ...