Online Shopping Addiction and Compulsive Buying
Award-winning journalist, Emma Marris, travels the world following the science of shopping addiction and compulsive buying.
An Addiction to Telling Bad Jokes
Can a person become addicted to telling bad jokes? The answer is yes.
Understanding the Reward Response and Addiction
We try to untangle conflicting studies about the brain’s reward response system and addictive or compulsive behaviors.
Is Addiction Really a Chronic Brain Disease?
Dr. Reinout W. Wiers summarizes the arguments in favor of classifying addiction as a chronic brain disease.
The Anticipation Wrinkle, The Expectation Wrinkle, and the Neurocircuitry of Addiction
Addicts get hooked on thinking about indulging to a degree that consuming is a letdown.
Woo-Woo or Wisdom?
The more we practice, the more the brain will cooperate by producing the dopamine of anticipation to help us along the way.