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      Understanding Addiction

      Drugs and other stimuli hijack dopamine signaling in the brain, causing changes that can lead to addiction

      • By Dwayne Godwin, Jorge Cham on January 1, 2016
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      This article was originally published with the title "Addiction" in SA Mind 27, 1, 76 (January 2016)

      doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0116-76

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        Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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