#49: How Porn Rewires the Brain - Donald Hilton, MD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
Drug Addiction - Is There a Downgrading of the Reward System?
With drug ediction, you get what call the dovemen derth. There's been so much down grading of the pleasure system that then when the person is not aroused by whatever drug they've trained their brains to like and to be depended on,. Then there's kind ofa downgrading of the system. And so it takes a kick to at least get an arousalnWhat's interesting is then it's kind of paradoxical, because if the person as seen a cue, shown a cue of potentially being able to use their drug of choice, then they will over react. In termsif you do a functional imaging of the reward system, they will overshoot and over react.
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