Discovery! Thursdays

Brenda McKee, Edgewood College. In 1997, Alan Leshner of the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (part of NIH) called addiction “a brain disease.” Despite opinions, controversy and belief systems that contradict this, neuroscience has produced enough research that most neuroscientists commonly accept that addiction is a disease. The central question that remains is how the brain becomes addicted in the first place. So what exactly is so different about the addict brain? Join us and find out!