The article is \" The addicted Brain\" from National Geographic Module #1-Introd

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The article is " The addicted Brain" from National Geographic

Module #1-Introducing Psychology and Social Context In the article, a clinical neuroscientist by the name of Dr. Anna Rose Childress explained that she's had patients who relapsed but couldn't explain what prompted it. As Dr. Childress explained, "They were walking around in environments where most of the time one thing or another had been signals for cocaine. They were basically getting primed, having that ancient reward system tingled. By the time they became conscious of it, it was like a snowball rolling downhill." From what we've learned about how our environment shapes our behavior, explain what Dr. Childress means by her statement. What specific forces are at work here, and how do these "triggers" associated with addiction impact a person's behaviors and treatment Module #2-Psychobiological Processes: The author of the article states the following: "By taking advantage of the brain's marvelous plasticity, addiction remolds neural circuits to assign supreme value to cocaine or heroin or gin, at the expense of other interests such as health, work, family, or life itself." Based on the article and what we've learned this term, explain how addiction can remold neural circuits and describe the brain mechanisms that allow this to be possible. In your owr words, explain how addiction "hijacks" the brain's neural pathways. Insight Into Psych-Module #5 V 3.20.18

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Module 1 --Dr Childress tried to explain here that patient is addicted by cocaine and this addiction was for almost half or more years that he is into it, thus de-addiction is not so easy process. After a certain time patient himself recognised that he is being trapped into addiction of this type but the time when he recognised this thing is too late for him to control himself by his own.

Module 2 -- In case of any addiction , after a certain period of time when the persons are over and above the guilty feelings of being addicted , neural system which is highly connected to brains take it as common and requirement of addiction generates in the brain which relay the matter to produce a requirement to do so. After this situation where brain is not in its own control , it starts sacrificing with the health, wealth, family and other normal things and now the prime thing in life is only that addiction which is described as the term hijacks.

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