PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Food Addiction, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic
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Addiction: addiction is another serious form of mental health disorder. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we are unable to fully discuss addiction in this course. In this lecture, we will only have a short discussion of addiction. Only a fraction of the information presented will be required for your final exam (see study. Notes: addiction is associated with motivation to obtain a particular reward. To better understand addiction, it is practical for us to revisit reward systems in the brain. Nucleus accumbens synapse) is a critical part of the reward system* In the case of addictive disorders such as alcoholism, reward-guided behavior is changed: alterations in reward-guided behavior may be linked to changes in da transmission. Research on food addiction: huge explosion of recognition of possibility of food addiction. Da d2r availability in addicts and obese patients. If you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t take a drug, (cid:455)ou suffer. If (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)(cid:859)t eat, (cid:455)ou suffer and then die.
