The Teenage Brain Is Primed For Addiction
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We tend to think of addiction as an adult problem, but drug abuse starts, overwhelmingly, in adolescence. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine talks about how a teenager’s brain is primed to soak up new experiences—the good and the bad—in this clip from “Craving Brain: The Neuroscience of Uncontrollable Urges,” a program at the 2014 World Science Festival.
Watch the full program here: THE CRAVING BRAIN: WHAT THE MIND HUNGERS FOR
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