29/12/2016 Mark Lewis ( PhD ), Learning Addiction.

What dopamin does is activate the systems

to focus the attention, to narrow the attention
and drive desire.

Addiction is kind of breake of comunication in this

region. They become harshely disconected when drug, booz or gambling on arising ( Kind of desease ? ).

Addiction, its a psychological process, its a kind of

learning learning and involve a brain change, but this changes
are are not produced only by drug ( gambling, sex, porn etc. )
Have similar pattern.

Plasticity.
So, this brain changes are not specific to drugaddiction, they have to do with learning something highly motivated, and
evolves from repetitive behaviour. Pruning is the brains way to be efficient taking drug, gambling seem a kind of
habit formation, brain doesnt stop changing no place for chronic, desease etc. Therefor addiction is a kind of learning
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain a fusion of five different addiction.

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Prairie voles are monogamous, animal analog to human model, the dopamine fueled to striatum when theyre mating.

3 psychological issues to make it hard to breake the habit of addiction.

1. Getting trapped in the present ( marshmallow test 3 / 7 year kids), posible disruption PFC Striatum in adults, seen
as a lack of will in kids, to postpone a reward = yet poor pruning.
2. Supress impulses is seen replaced by more efficient paraphrasing, cue start to cascade the dopamine to the striatum
then the cycle starts with cravings. So ego fatigue is rather to be paraphrased than overcome.

3. By saying yes to drug through repetitive exposure, all the others calls - satisfactions that available for you fall off
the radar. That release your ease this is important, but nothing else..becoming part of you, attaching meaning and be
meaningfull - subcultures, groups defining themselves as subcultural heroes

Neuroscience of addiction.

In the last ten years the Mndf practise proves to decrease Default Mode
Network activity in self reflection thinking about your past, future, so it
Reduced because of ego investment.

When its going for a while hour, day, week.

 When its over thereis always lost, depr, shame, remorse what make you do it again. Relief is a positive reinforcement
of behaviour and trenched it further. So the cycle: /relief / loss / repeat = learning. Every time you do it , it activates a
certain pattern of particular synaptic configuration building up over ocasiones, weeks, month, years and reinforcing the
synaptic conection.

So how do we help addicts feel empowered ?

FIRST replace the adiction with other goals,
their ownship.
SECOND help them to envision.
The future. The now appeal cuts the
temporal dimension to Unique present,
The eternal present tense.