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You seem to have a very narrow definition of what addiction is. Considering how similarly people with behavioral and drug addictions act and how similarly the b
by kelipso 3y ago
You seem to have a very narrow definition of what addiction is. Considering how similarly people with behavioral and drug addictions act and how similarly the brain reacts to drug and non-drug addictions, your definition is much too narrow and yes, out of date.
Plenty of research in this topic, not just Lembke, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139704/ for example.
- superkuh 3y agoAnother single author paper. But at least he's citing Robinson and Berridge, 2008, that's solid work. But then it goes on to try to say any changes in the brain (he phrases it as neuroplasticity) are addiction indicators. But that's simply not true. He should re-visit Berridge (who does actual science and not just meta-studies) and look at more recent work on incentive salience and teasing apart the mechanisms of liking vs wanting.
- kelipso 3y agoSo you would like to basically define addiction only if the brain uses the wanting mechanism instead of the liking mechanism. Which is ridiculous, since people act very similarly whether the wanting mechanism is used or not. It's basically a silly little definitional thing to exclude an entire class of addictions, even though people in both classes act very similarly.