Pay Attention to This. Kathleen McGowan.
by McGowan, Kathleen; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 63Health. Publisher: Psychology Today, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Addicts | Attention | Brain chemistry | Dopamine | Drug abuse | Human behavior | Sensation seeking | Substance abuse | Volkow, NoraDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Heroin and chocolate cake have a nasty way of crowding out the rest of the universe. The country's chief addiction expert argues that the propensity to drink, overeat and take drugs is a matter of attention gone awry." (PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) This article profiles Nora Volkow, "one of the country's most prominent addiction researchers and the new director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)," and discusses "the controversial theory about dopamine."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Pay Attention to This, Nov./Dec. 2004; pp. 84+.
"Heroin and chocolate cake have a nasty way of crowding out the rest of the universe. The country's chief addiction expert argues that the propensity to drink, overeat and take drugs is a matter of attention gone awry." (PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) This article profiles Nora Volkow, "one of the country's most prominent addiction researchers and the new director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)," and discusses "the controversial theory about dopamine."
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