Episode 78: The neurobiological link to cravings
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In both Western and Eastern philosophy, craving has been considered a source of suffering and unhappiness. While craving is an important feature of substance use disorders, eating disorders, and other psychiatric conditions, it is also a general aspect of human experience. Identifying the neurobiological basis of this driver of human behavior is thus an important step in mapping brain circuits to fundamental thought processes.
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