AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
Dr. Nii Addy, professor, researcher: Neurobiology of addiction
Working with Dan Doriani
The Importance of Craving
In some of the classes I teach, this is for the medical students, first-year medical students, oftentimes I'll present the biology of craving and relapse. And then oftentimes we'll have one of our psychiatry colleagues actually bring someone who they're currently in treatment with them. That does a few things because those individuals are on a recovery journey and feel very empowered to know that what they're doing is actually helping the students have an understanding. So just to throw out one more story: A patient asked his students to imagine their favorite food; he said to take that craving and multiply it or intensify it by a thousand. He said that was the intensity with which he would crave substances even
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode