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<div>"They start out using the drug in order to feel good or in order to experience less pain," Lembke says. "Over time, with repeated exposure, that drug works less and less well. But they find themselves unable to stop, because when they're not using, then they're in a state of a dopamine deficit."</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>dopamine nation pdf download</div><div></div><div>Download: https://t.co/KJwA5oc86v </div><div></div><div></div><div>[An] experiment has been done in rats, for example, putting a probe in their brain, measuring the amount of dopamine released in response to different types of substances. Now, remember, we all have a baseline release of dopamine that's sort of always there. And then when we ingest certain substances or engage in certain behaviors, our dopamine either goes up or down in response to that substance or behavior. So, for example, chocolate increases dopamine above baseline about 50%. Sex is about a 100%. Nicotine is about 150%. And amphetamines is about 1,000%.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Because of its reward-centric role, we can use the amount of dopamine a drug releases in the brain to measure its addictive potential. The more and faster a drug releases dopamine in the brain, the more likely we are to get addicted to it.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Bio: Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>She thinks this all explains the fact that in a time of unprecedented abundance, we as a species are measurably less happy than ever, experiencing unprecedented levels of depression, anxiety disorder, chronic pain, and suicide. Studies disclose the steepest declines in happiness in the wealthiest nations.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Our compulsive over-consumption has not only led to increased psychological suffering; we are literally consuming ourselves to death. Seventy percent of global deaths are attributable to modifiable behavioral risk factors like smoking, physical inactivity, and diet. There are now more people worldwide who are obese than who are underweight. The poor and undereducated, especially those living in rich nations, are most susceptible to the problem of compulsive overconsumption because they have easy access to high-reward, high-potency, high-novelty drugs at the same time that they lack access to meaningful work, safe housing, quality education, affordable healthcare, and race and class equity before the law. This creates a dangerous nexus of addiction risk.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Just like a drug addict, we go back to our sources of dopamine every time we need a new dose of pleasure. However, as we consume more of them, our brain starts to get used to the feeling and builds resistance.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Dopamine Nation explores how overflowing sources of dopamine can become a burden to carry. Although the constant availability of resources looks like a good thing from the outside, it can lead to serious problems and the avoidance of discomfort in our society.</div><div></div><div></div><div>All around us people are looking at their phones too much, eating too much, drinking too much. For many, the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain. Join Careers, Life, and Yale for an important conversation with Stanford Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Anna Lembke, about the neuroscience of addiction and how to find balance in a dopamine-overloaded world.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist, Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In her recent bestselling book Dopamine Nation, Lembke compiles decades of research and expertise on addiction. She also tells personal anecdotes of patients from her clinical practice. As she sees it, their addiction experiences are not as distant from our lives as we might think. Instead, their stories are like those of a prophet, teaching us who we truly are. Living in a culture primarily motivated by high-dopamine rewards, it has become crucial that we all learn how to balance pleasure and pain.</div><div></div><div></div><div>A study shows that ice baths increase dopamine concentration in the body by 250 percent. After a cold bath, dopamine levels remain elevated above normal for up to two hours. Another (more controversial) study suggested that the Japanese citizens partially exposed to radiation from the 1964 nuclear attacks had longer lifespans and lower cancer rates than those without radiation exposure. In rodents and monkeys, intermittent fasting and caloric restriction has been shown to reduce blood pressure and improve heart rate variability. The pain of exercise also has excellent benefits. At the cellular level, exercise deprives the body of oxygen and glucose and puts it in a state of toxicity (a state usually thought to harm an organism). However, these pain exposures at the cellular level lead to improved physical and mental health overall.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The fantasy world of erotica had alienated her from her husband and kids, and it affected her sleep and performance in her clinical practice. To recover from her addiction, Lembke made a conscious effort to immerse herself in the world her addiction led her to neglect. She focused on the things she loved about her work. She focused her energy into building relationships with her patients. Eventually, Lembke re-established a dopamine balance and once again felt more satisfaction from her vocation than from badly-written pornographic fiction.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Anna Lembke is the medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding research in mental illness, for excellence in teaching, and for clinical innovation in treatment. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries in prestigious outlets such as The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The team found that those with higher dopamine levels in a region of the striatum called the caudate nucleus were more likely to focus on the benefits (the money) and choose the difficult mental tasks. Those with lower dopamine levels were more sensitive to the perceived cost, or task difficulty.</div><div></div><div></div><div>These finding suggests that Ritalin and similar drugs may work by acting on motivation rather than directly boosting cognitive function. For those with lower dopamine levels, boosting dopamine can affect the mental cost-benefit analysis so that they focus more on reward than cost. 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