22. April 2023 19:00
Science & Cocktails in X31 is a series of few special events held at Den Grå Hal. For this first event of the series, Science & Cocktails is proud to present an episode “DOPAMINE NATION: A Neuroscience-Informed Approach to Compulsive Overconsumption in a Reward-Overloaded World” with Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence and featured recently in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. She will take you on a tour through the neuroscience of addiction, just after Basker Hval takes the stage and fills it with electronic dark synth.
Tickets: Seated tickets are paid. Standing is free and you don’t need a ticket, entrance is on a first-come, first-served basis.
What is the neuroscience of pleasure and pain and what happens in the brain as we become addicted? What happens when we are repeatedly exposed to drugs of all kinds? What is the effect of dopamine? Can intentionally engaging in pain/discomfort improve mood and well-being?
This is a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting… The increased numbers, variety, and potency are staggering. As such, we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Yet, it is possible to find contentment and connectedness by keeping dopamine in check.
In this talk, Professor Anna Lembke will provide a practical, science-informed approach to addressing compulsive overconsumption of everything from food, to sex, to video games. Q&A will follow Dr. Lembke’s presentation.
More info: https://www.scienceandcocktails.org/…/dopamine-nation…
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2Ueh2ade0
Event held in English with the generous support of the Lundbeck Foundation and the Brain Prize.