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

This is the kind of temptation that I think a sensitized addict could be imagined to experience for the drug cues that tempt them.

So we're asking something that's out of the ordinary when we're asking to resist.

It is possible.

There are behavioral strategies and cognitive strategies that may help, including 12 steps programs that may help resist this temptation, but it isn't easy.

And of course, not everybody can succeed.

Right.

It was sort of the earliest demonstration of food porn.

I now think that the answer is yes for some individuals who have gambling addictions or pornography addictions or some of these other behavioral addictions.

If you had asked me 15 years ago, I would have said I thought the answer was no.

The reason 15 years ago I thought the answer was no is because we know something about the biological neural mechanisms of how drugs can sensitize the dopamine system.

We know some of the neural, even cellular, molecular events that are happening.

And I would have thought, well, how is sensitization happening in the absence of drugs that are

You're not triggering these same mechanisms.

But I should have remembered 15 years ago, I should have remembered that 30 years ago, my colleague, the co-author of the addiction, incentive sensitization addiction hypothesis, Terry Robinson, he had been showing that he could sensitize rats even without drugs by stressful experiences.

A stressful experience would sensitize them.

And then if you later gave them drugs for the first time, they would already be sensitized, their mesolimbic dopamine system.

Some individuals, I think, can sensitize readily without drugs.

They're that vulnerable.

And what's convinced me in the last 15 years that it's happening in these behavioral addictions are two things.

One is fMRI studies of people with gambling addiction or people with sex pornography addiction, some people with binge eating addiction.

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