Drug Addiction, Cocaine, Nicotine, Caffeine, Amphetamines, Opioids, THC & Neuroscience | Christian Luscher | 40
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Drugediction - Which Parts of the Brain Are Responsible for Habitual Behavior?
The striatum, inthe dorsal stratum in particular, with some subdivisions that are to some extent overlapping. So a habit is more or less unconscious, sort of just do it repetitively, without thinking about it. And when either of those behaviours becomes very extreme, it can result in a compulsion,. i see. Can you unpack that a little bit more for people and and which of thesein just sort of repeat and unpack which parts of the brains under normal conditions would be responsible for habitual versus oriented behavior? Ye, so we have essentially three types of behavior as weare interested in in the context of rugediction.
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