Genes
Our genes determine if we are more or less ______ to addiction.
What is vulnerable
What prop did he use to demonstrate the role of dopamine?
What is A gumball machine
What national park does this video take place in?
What is Zion National Park
The stress system is known as the anti-____ system
What is Reward
What argument says that "with a strong enough threat, I can get the addict to stop?"
What is The Choice Argument
Research shows that ___% of vulnerability to alcohol addiction is purely genetic.
What is 60 %
What chemical is being released by neurons during a rewarding experience?
What is dopamine
The speaker compares surges of chemicals in the brain to this natural phenomenon.
What are flash floods
What is Anadonia
The choice argument draws a distinction between behaviors and _______.
What are symptoms
In the video, he compares resilient brains to ______ and vulnerable brains to _______.
What is hard rock and soft rock
The video says that dopamine is more about drug _____ than drug liking.
What is wanting
What is the chemical of memory formation?
What is glutamate
What are: 1. Drugs 2. Drug cues and 3. Stress
The video says that addiction is a disease of _____.
What is choice
"Nature sometimes favors _______ over resilience"
What is Adaptation
This hypothesis says that if a person has a problem with one drug, they have a liability to develop a problem with another drug.
What is The Dopamine Hypothesis
Glutamate neurons move from the frontal cortex back down to the _______
Midbrain
Stress causes the release of this hormone
What is CRF (corticotropin releasing factor)
Instead of dopamine, research has found that the final common pathway in addiction is the ______ neurons.
What is glutamate
The speaker says genes are powerful in addiction -- but what does he say is even more powerful?
What is Recovery
The speaker says a fascinating feature of addiction is persistent drug use despite _______.
What are negative consequences
As the brain generates an experience of pleasure, which direction do the neurons releasing dopamine move in?
What is up
The _____ set point is the point in which the brain is at homeostasis
What is hedonic
What areas of the brain are critical in emotional attachment and decision making?
What is the Orbital Frontal Cortex and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex