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ποΈ 21 October 2025
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Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Here, Dr. James Kimmel, Jr. explores the neuroscience of vengeance and the power of forgiveness.
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| 1:05.3 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. The addiction circuitry, that's the nucleus |
| 1:10.5 | dorsal stratum, those are the pleasure, |
| 1:13.5 | craving, and habit formation areas of the brain that are activated for drug and alcohol addiction. |
| 1:20.7 | So it's the same neurosurcuitary. And then as part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex that is there |
| 1:26.6 | to stop you from doing things |
| 1:28.1 | that lead to negative consequences, if that's inhibited or hijacked, then you may go out on a revenge-seeking |
| 1:34.7 | binge that leaves your fantasy behind and becomes a real-life revenge attack. |
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| 2:37.1 | revenge it feels good until it doesn't we've all fantasized about it right the ex who wronged us the boss |
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