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Hey, Wake Up, It’s Brain Awareness Week
Your brain doesn’t come with an instruction manual. The Dana Foundation’s annual Brain Awareness Week (BAW), March 10-16, seems particularly appropriate and useful this time around, after a year in which brain-based disease models of human behaviors came un...
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Oh shit! I wasnt aware of my brain! Thank god for this week!
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Dirk Hanson

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Six Writers Who Battled the Bottle
Book review. In The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking , author Olivia Laing’s stated goal is “to know why writers drink, and what effect this stew of spirits has had upon the body of literature itself.” To which I can only say, best of luck. The ...
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Acamprosate For Alcohol: Why the Research Might Be Wrong
Calcium may be curbing the urge to drink. “Occasionally,” reads the opening sentence of a commentary published online last month in Neuropsychopharmacology , “a paper comes along that fundamentally challenges what we thought we knew about a drug mechanism.”...
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It will certainly be interesting to see what comes of it, from an addiction research point of view.
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Going Deep: Surgery For Addiction?
Controversial DBS technique shows early promise for Parkinson’s, Tourette’s. --> Bielefeld, Germany— The third in an irregular series of posts
about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to
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What is This Thing Called Neuroplasticity?
And how does it impact addiction and recovery? Bielefeld, Germany— The first in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to Culture and Back Again. The conference, held at the Ce...
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My latest feature, for Nautilus Magazine. How much light do we need?
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Addicts and Disease
Commentary. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring to addiction as a chronic, relapsing “brain disease.” What often goes unmentioned is Leshner’s far more interesting characterization of ...
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Narco-Deforestation Accelerates Loss of Biodiversity
In Central America, drug policies become conservation policies. The Central American isthmus exploded into prominence as a drug trafficking corridor in 2006, when pressure on Mexican cartels pushed smuggling operations to the south and into the remote fores...
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The Anthropology of Addiction
Can we ever integrate neuroscience and social science? Bielefeld, Germany— The last in a series of posts about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to Culture and Back Again .  The conference, held at the Cent...
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Drug Craving, or How to Be Your Own Worst Enemy
Plus the disease model, warts and all. Bielefeld, Germany— The second in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to Culture and Back Again . The conference, held at the Center f...
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freelance writer, book author
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science journalism, books, articles, fiction, editing
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    Category Expert, 2013
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science writer, book author
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Freelance writer and blogger covering neuroscience, drugs, and addiction. He is the author of The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction. He is the editor of Addiction Inbox and also serves as a category expert for Answers.com. He previously worked for The Fix as senior contributing editor. He has contributed to Scientific American, The Dana Foundation, Huffington Post, Salon, AlterNet, Wired, California, Omni, and other magazines. He received the 2012 Excellence in Media Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.
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  • Iowa State University
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