Why Do Our Brains Get Addicted?

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Format

Video and audio recordings

Publication Date

27 January 2015

Published by / Citation

TEDMED

Themes

Addiction

Keywords

addiction

Neuroscience

Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.