Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Addiction, Reward System, Behaviour Therapy
3 May 2016
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What makes the biggest difference to your health: exercise, spend half an hour being active a day. Obesity + exercise = much better, ameliorated many of negative consequences of obesity. Every increase of 10 min, 29% decrease of high blood pressure. 6 hours per day of tv = decrease life by 5 years. What is addiction: concepts: brain issue, psychological or physiological, vulnerable groups, dopamine receptors. Understanding relapse: concepts: go-stop brain process, relapse factors of triggers, stress, anhedonia, Addiction starts between the ages of 18-25, very little addiction starts after the age of 30. Right medication & right therapy can help with recovery. Addition is a result of adaptation in the brain that leads to changes in behaviour. Area of the brain that allows to make free choices does not function properly. Drug addiction is a disease is a disease of the brain that translates to changes in behaviour. Interaction between genes and environment - more vulnerable to addiction.
