The Neuroscience of Natural Rewards: Relevance to Addictive Drugs
University of Wisconsin–Madison · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
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Addictive drugs act on brain reward systems, although the brain evolved to respond not to drugs but to natural rewards, such as food and sex. Appropriate responses to natural rewards were evolutionarily important for survival, reproduction, and fitness. In a quirk of evolutionary fate, humans
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- Addiction
- Natural (archaeology)
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- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Reproduction
- Cognitive science
- Biology
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- Zero hunger
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