Dr. Kent Berridge
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first heard Aug 2026
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Yes.
My lab in the last few months has been sort of picked over by colleagues here.
Good for you.
Well, it's a natural thing.
Sensitization lasts a long time, but it's not clear that it lasts forever.
And it may be that it does decline in some.
It is also possible to develop cognitive behavioral strategies to deal with urges.
Finally, I think for some, there's other changes in the brain that go along with heavy drug use, and some of them may be reversible and healing possible.
There is evidence that that can happen.
So yes, I think healing can happen.
Not everything perhaps heals, but for many people, most, and perhaps for a lot of people, all things can heal.
Well, I mean, I've been struck by...
surprises all throughout my career.
Originally, I thought dopamine was pleasure and then turned out not to be.
It was only the wanting for the pleasure.
Other things that have come up is I think addiction neuroscience has a lot of understanding of things that change the intensity of addictive urges, but we still don't have a good sense of what controls the target of urges.
You know, that's why we're doing the optogenetic studies with cocaine.
and the shock rod to try to get a better sense of what's controlling the target.
For normally, for most of us who are not addicted, as we said, when you're hungry, you want food.
If you're thirsty, you may not want dry food, but you want to drink.
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