I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction, ... But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.
"Nora Volkow" is a Mexico/Mexican-United States/American psychiatrist. She is currently the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). She is the great-granddaughter of 1917 revolution/Russian revolutionary leader and Head of the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky. Her father Esteban Volkov is the son of Leon Trotsky’s elder daughter.
Born in Mexico City, Volkow and her three sisters grew up in the house where Trotsky was killed. She attended the Modern American School, then earned a medical degree from National University of Mexico before going to New York University for psychiatry/psychiatric residency. She chose a career in brain research after reading an article on the use of positron emission tomography in studying brain function. She did research at Brookhaven National Laboratory before becoming director of NIDA in 2003.
More Nora Volkow on Wikipedia.There's a pattern of brain changes that we have shown is common across various types of addiction that we've also seen in pathologically obese individuals.
They become part of our everyday lives. You see an ad for medication the way you see an ad for shampoo, and the message is that it's just like an everyday thing.
In animal studies ... exercise has been found to increase dopamine levels and to raise the number of dopamine receptors.
It's a sense of doing something that can improve the quality of life for people, ... Of course I admire (Trotsky), I think he was an incredibly visionary individual.
When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.
The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
It's a compulsion, it's a need that goes beyond the ability to consciously control it, and in that respect it's very similar to drug addiction.
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