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Our guest today will discuss the way the brain is affected by addiction, how certain people may be more vulnerable to addiction, and what our understanding of addiction and the brain can teach us about obesity and schizophrenia. Dr. Stoeckel will describe the brain systems and psychological processes underlying addiction. Also, we will discuss new neuroimaging technology that may allow people to regulate areas of their own brains involved in addiction in order to reduce cravings and change brain-behavior responses to cues in the environment that often trigger relapses to use addictive substanc
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