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BBC Inside Science

Science of Addiction

BBC Inside Science

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Science Gallery London at Kings College London, right under the Shard, is a brand new venue for the collision of art, science and culture, and its opening exhibition is called Hooked, a series of installations and works by people who have experienced addiction.

Adam Rutherford explores the neuroscience, the psychology and the epidemiology of addiction; what the latest research says about what addiction is, and how that can help us treat people experiencing addiction. He discusses these questions with psychologist Dr Sally Marlow and neurologist Professor Mitul Mehta who are both at Kings College and have been involved in the exhibition, and Dr Suzi Gage from Liverpool University who studies the epidemiology of addiction. He also talks to the curator of Hooked, Hannah Redler Hawes, and to two of the Science Gallery Young Leaders, Elly Magson and Mandeep Singh, who show him a couple of the exhibits.

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Hello You, this is the podcast of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first broadcast on the

0:35.8

20th of September 2018 I'm Adam Rutherford it's a special edition of

0:40.2

Inside Science on Addiction we're at the Science Gallery London right under the

0:44.0

shard which is a brand new venue for the collision of art, science and culture and

0:48.4

their opening exhibition is called Hooked, a series of installations and works by people who have experienced

0:54.3

addiction with expert voices from King's College London including researchers

0:58.4

from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience. The charity Action on Addiction says that one in three people

1:05.6

will experience addiction to something during their lives which poses a huge

1:09.9

burden on those people, on their friends and families and to society more broadly.

1:14.8

Today we're going in depth into the neuroscience, the psychology and the epidemiology of addiction.

1:20.1

What the latest research says about what addiction actually is and how that can help us treat people experiencing addiction.

1:26.8

My guests are psychologist, Dr Sally Marlow, and neuroscientist Professor Mittle Meta, who are both here at King's College London and have been involved in the exhibition

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