Category Archives: Addiction

Addiction: Pay Attention

Posted on April 23, 2011 by L-bo

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. By Kathleen … Continue reading →

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Dopamine Addiction & The Chemistry of Boredom

Posted on April 16, 2011 by L-bo

Preface Armed with the knowledge of dopamine self-addiction and the deep logical error elsewhere referred to as the ‘dyadic flip’, we can look again at the related neuroscience. The knowledge of dopamine gene differences in the population at large having … Continue reading →

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Dopamine Addiction Model Intro

Posted on April 12, 2011 by L-bo

Introduction Apparently, in the mid to late 1990’s through the early 2000’s, a bunch of folks were working on some version of this concept orthogonally. To name just a few: In the engineering and psychological sectors, Alan Carter, Colston Sanger, … Continue reading →

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The DAM bug

Posted on April 2, 2011 by L-bo

Read the Introduction here. Read the full paper here. Note: if that link goes down,I’ll post the whole paper on this page.

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