Addiction and the Mind Ft. Professor Judy Grisel
This week we dive into addiction – what is it and what causes it? We spoke to Professor Judy Grisel, a behavioral neuroscientist and the bestselling author of Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction. Judy spoke about her research, as well as her own journey of addiction and recovery.
Professor Judy Grisel is a behavioral neuroscientist with expertise in pharmacology and genetics whose research focuses on determining root causes of drug addiction. She studies sex differences in the role of stress and endorphins on drug reward and works to identify innate factors that contribute to individual differences in the liability toward addiction.
Judy is also the bestselling author of Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction which not only dives into her research, but chronicles her own journey of addiction and recovery.
Resources and Links
- Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction – Amazon
- Tedx Talk – Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction 2020
- SMH – ‘The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but choice’
- Judy Grisel – Bucknell University
- The Guardian – The science of addiction: a personal struggle to kick cocaine gives a neuroscientist unique insights
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