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Lembke, Anna (2023) Dopamine and the pleasure–pain balance. SSA Blog,

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In Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist and author Dr Anna Lembke writes about “finding balance in the age of indulgence”. The following edited excerpt examines the abundance of high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli in the modern world, and how this has affected our tolerance for pain and threshold for pleasure.

Item Type
Article
Publication Type
International, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
All substances
Intervention Type
Screening / Assessment
Date
8 February 2023
Publisher
Society for the Study of Addiction
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