Dr. Kent Berridge
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first heard Aug 2026
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amphetamine is slightly different.
It's going to brighten up the world, make things really attractive or interesting, but it's a really different experience.
People who are seeking these different experiences might take it for that reason.
But the second reason is the reason why some of my rats are sugar addicts, others are Remy Fentz addicts or cocaine addicts, and others are shock rod compulsive addicts who keep shocking themselves.
And that's because once, if they're going to be sensitized, if we can create this sensitized excessive wanting, it can be assigned to
by the brain to a particular target.
And once it's assigned, it kind of sticks to that target.
So a person could have true sensitized wanting for and a different person could have true sensitized wanting for even when they're no longer seeking the very different pharmacological effects so much.
Now they've got a kind of similar urge, a similar excessive want that incentive sensitization has caused in them.
It's just directed towards different targets because of their experiences.
Well, I think the answer is yes, although when we're inducing these kind of compulsive wants, then I think we have to be understanding that the intensity of the temptation they're experiencing is much stronger.
It's biology.
But even with an intense temptation, I mean, here's an intense temptation that anyone could experience, and that is if we were starved and starved and starved,
We all want food when we're hungry, but if a person's starved and starved and starved, the intensity of their want for food is far exceeding ours.
You know, in World War II in the United States, there was what was called the Minnesota Starvation Study.
It was happening because there were conscientious objectors who didn't want to go and fight in the armed forces, and it wasn't really socially acceptable to do that, to be a conscientious objector, but they were given a choice.
They could participate in this study as volunteers, and then they wouldn't be...
have any jail sentences or anything.
They participated.
They were motivated because their friends were fighting and sometimes dying, and they wanted to participate.
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