Dr. Kent Berridge

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We're Out of Time · Wanting vs Liking: Why Addiction Isn't About Pleasure | Dr. Kent Berridge · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

But antipsychotics block that.

So life becomes less interesting, less engaging under these drugs.

And also sometimes there can be movement side effects if a person takes these drugs for years.

So you probably would not have people willing to take these drugs.

Yes, I think so.

I mean, life is a constellation of cues, you know, in context, the place that we are in, where we have taken drugs, particular things, sights and smells and touches of things that have been associated with the drugs.

These can really trigger it.

Now, it isn't the cues themselves.

It's the cues acting on a brain system that's ready to be hyperreactive.

And since sensitization lasts for years once it's induced of this dopamine system, that's the brain system there.

I mean, for all of us, to kind of put it in a way that I think everybody would understand whether they've taken drugs or not, if we're hungry and we're walking down the street before lunch and we haven't eaten and we're not really particularly thinking of food, but now we smell food and we think, wow, that's nice.

I would love to have something to eat and maybe even particularly that thing that I'm smelling.

That's a cue triggering this kind of limbic dopamine response and giving us a good strong urge or want to eat.

But if we've had a big lunch and we're walking down the same street and we smell the same smells, it's not likely to trigger an urge to want to eat.

Well, the brain is not ready to respond with that with dopamine activation.

If the cue is the same, but the brain's response is different.

Because you're full.

That's right.

So hunger, satiety, these are temporary states.

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