This video explores the brain mechanisms underlying rewarding experiences and addiction.
Dopamine’s role in reward and addictive behavior is explained, as are the major dopamine pathways (mesolimbic, mesocortical, and nigrostriatal).
Learn about addiction-related brain changes, including
hypofrontalityWiki, heightened sensitivity to drug cues, blunted dopamine signaling, tolerance, anhedonia, dependence, and withdrawal.
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