The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals #191 - Anna Lembke on DOPAMINE NATION
Nov 11, 2021
34:06
Renowned psychiatrist and medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine Dr. Anna Lembke chats with Trey Elling about DOPAMINE NATION: FINDING BALANCE IN THE AGE OF INDULGENCE. Questions include:
- What is dopamine, and what does popular culture get wrong about it? (01:27)
- How does the dopamine economy play into the compulsive abuse of substances and activities? (03:59)
- How has helicopter parenting contributed to the rise of compulsive behaviors? (05:42)
- Is mental illness that requires medication being overdiagnosed? (07:08)
- How do pleasure and pain work like a balance in our brains? (07:49)
- What effect does gambling have on dopamine release, and how might that help explain social media addiction? (10:53)
- How does learning increase dopamine firing? (14:48)
- What is dopamine fasting? (16:55)
- How does pain become pleasurable? (23:06)
- Why do people respond so positively to 'radical honesty'? (26:08)
- What is prosocial shame, and how can parents implement it with their children? (28:16)
- What is the proper point of moderation? (32:11)