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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain’s Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices

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The Role of Dopamine in Addiction

A single administration of a drug of abuse like cocaine, like morphine can cause relatively several days, several weeks of changes in the connections onto dopamine neurons. And again, the big question for understanding the neurobiology of addiction is, those changes are probably happening in most people who take the drugIn this case. I mean, we can talk about other stimuli, non-drug stimuli that can become, in quotes, addictive. Again, why in certain individuals, to be honest, it's not a big deal.

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