Anna Lembke
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Dr. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A world-leading expert on the neuroscience of addiction, she is the author of the best-selling books "Dopamine Nation" and "Drug Dealer, MD."
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What Anna Lembke has said on podcasts
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Extreme stress increases vulnerability to relapse into compulsive substance or behavior consumption.
“when individuals are under extreme stress, they are more vulnerable to going back to compulsive overconsumption of our drug of choice”
Open the episode · Dopamine Expert: Short Form Videos Are Frying! People Don't Understand This Is A Dopamine Disaster!Listen at 0:28
People typically need about four weeks to exit a constant craving state.
“On average, it takes four weeks for people to get out of constant state of craving.”
Open the episode · Dopamine Expert: Short Form Videos Are Frying! People Don't Understand This Is A Dopamine Disaster!Listen at 0:59
Relentless pleasure-seeking causes anhedonia.
“the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to anhedonia.”
Open the episode · Dopamine Expert: Short Form Videos Are Frying! People Don't Understand This Is A Dopamine Disaster!Listen at 1:35
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