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Finding Genius Podcast

What Are The Root Causes Of Drug Addiction? | A Renowned Neuroscientist Explains

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we connect with Judy Grisel, an internationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist, and professor of psychology at Bucknell University. She joins us today to discuss her work researching the root causes of drug addiction.

Judy has a history of her own with addiction, and she uses her past to fuel her mission to understand the neuroscience of addiction. In 2019, she published Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, a book that explores "how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction".

Jump into the conversation now to discover:

  • The three main streams of influence that increase or decrease the risk for addiction.
  • The difference between the brains of addicts before and after they start using. 
  • Why addiction is considered a "form of learning".
  • Why people who use opiates regularly feel "normal" over time when they're on them.

The more we understand about addiction, the easier it will be to prevent future generations from using. How has Judy's work contributed to this mission? Tune in now to find out for yourself!

To uncover more about Judy and her work, click here now!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

there are three main streams of influence.

0:02.6

About half the risk is heritable,

0:04.6

so we get it from probably thousands of genetic variants,

0:09.0

some of which increase and some of which decrease our risk.

0:12.8

Many of those happen to be things

0:15.2

that have to do with metabolism,

0:16.9

so they're not even in the brain,

0:18.5

they're more likely in the liver,

0:20.0

but there are a few neural genetic variations

0:23.2

that we've found that contribute.

0:25.6

I would say here that most of the genetic variation

0:28.8

hasn't been elucidated,

0:30.4

so even though we know you come into the world

0:33.1

with a fair amount of risk of protection,

0:35.1

we don't mostly know why.

0:36.8

The second thing is environment,

0:38.8

and that is also naturally really complex.

0:42.3

Forget frequently asked questions.

0:44.1

Common sense, common knowledge, or Google.

0:46.6

How about advice from a real genius?

0:48.8

95% of people in any profession

0:51.1

are good enough to be qualified in license.

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