Addiction: The Mind-Brain Connection
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Location: Desmarais Building, 12th Floor, Room 12-102, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5
About this event
Due to the coronavirus, the organizers have postponed this event until the fall of 2020.
From smoking to excessive exercise to opioid abuse, people living with addiction are compelled to engage in repeated behaviour despite its negative consequences. One reason seems to be because of a rewarding effect in the brain. We will explore how the brain pathways of reward and reinforcement work on the mind-brain connection.
Substance misuse, in particular, is a pressing and complex issue. Solving it will rely not just on understanding biology and social factors, but acknowledging the impact of culture and society on, for example, available intervention strategies and challenges to policy development .
Join us to discuss the relationships between the mind, the brain and addiction, the societal implications, and what that evidence has to say about policy relating to addressing addictions.
