Moments In Flow

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  • The Hijacked Loop

    How Substance Use Reprograms the Brain’s Reward System One Pathway, Many Drugs Every addictive substance converges on the same pathway. It runs from the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens. It’s the brain’s reinforcement engine. It stamps cues and actions with motivational value. It says: that thing matters, go get it. Dopamine is not…

  • Finland: The 1970’s is back

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    In the early 1970s, Finland recorded the highest coronary heart disease mortality in the world. The excess was concentrated in working-age men, particularly in the eastern province of North Karelia, where mortality among men in their forties reached levels that would now be associated with men two decades older. The North Karelia Project, launched in…