Understanding Addiction Drugs and other stimuli hijack dopamine signaling in the brain, causing changes that can lead to addiction
Advertisement This article was originally published with the title "Addiction" in SA Mind 27, 1, 76 (January 2016)
doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0116-76
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Recent Articles by Dwayne Godwin Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com. He is also co-author of the new book We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, published by Riverhead Books.
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