JUDITH GRISEL, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at Bucknell University. Her recent research helps explain the different trajectories of alcohol abuse in men and women.
发表于2024-09-10
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图书标签: 心理学 英文 上瘾 科普 成瘾 neuroscience addiction 2
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction.
Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addiction, enriched by captivating glimpses of her personal journey.
In Never Enough, Grisel reveals the unfortunate bottom line of all regular drug use: there is no such thing as a free lunch. All drugs act on the brain in a way that diminishes their enjoyable effects and creates unpleasant ones with repeated use. Yet they have their appeal, and Grisel draws on anecdotes both comic and tragic from her own days of using as she limns the science behind the love of various drugs, from marijuana to alcohol, opiates to psychedelics, speed to spice.
With more than one in five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide, and Grisel delves with compassion into the science of this scourge. She points to what is different about the brains of addicts even before they first pick up a drink or drug, highlights the changes that take place in the brain and behavior as a result of chronic using, and shares the surprising hidden gifts of personality that addiction can expose. She describes what drove her to addiction, what helped her recover, and her belief that a “cure” for addiction will not be found in our individual brains but in the way we interact with our communities.
Set apart by its color, candor, and bell-clear writing, Never Enough is a revelatory look at the roles drugs play in all of our lives and offers crucial new insight into how we can solve the epidemic of abuse.
周日在书店陪孩子学习。我下午开始看这本书。作者解释了众多的药品和毒品以及它们对大脑起的作用。因为加入了作者自己的个人经历,所以使得解释不是那么枯燥。很希望能多读一些如何戒瘾的篇幅。
评分很好的关于成瘾的科普书,作者是一个recovery addict,也是神经学教授,做成瘾研究,书里对成瘾的神经机制,以及各种成瘾物质的作用原理都有很详细而易懂的介绍,对自己瘾君子的过去毫不掩饰,增加了书的个人性和趣味性。不过对于我来说好像新东西还是不够多——当然副作用就是,我可以说大多数内容的科学性都是可靠而且前沿的,展现了大多数研究领域近年的最新发展。不过我最近听了好多关于drug和addiction的书,从历史到科学,从个人体验到社会影响,我脚着可以告一段落了。
评分作者是个猛人,从13岁第一次喝酒就上瘾了,之后十年一路尝试各种能弄到手的毒品,烟酒大麻可卡因。。直到因为一些契机决定戒毒,然后去研究毒品成瘾机制,花了七年重读本科,又花好几年读研究生再真的去研究。我想这个原因是我会去看这本书的重要原因,因为,她去过死地,然后她回来了。 具体到这本书,我觉得有点神经科学基础读起来会顺一些。或者只是想对各种毒品分类,效果,作用机制有所了解的话,也可以看。不过,她还是讲的蛮深的,具体到脑区,到神经递质,到递质受体,我琢磨如果没有相关生物知识,可能看起来会略微有一点吃力。但是信息量很大,脉络也清楚。我觉得还是蛮好看的。
评分很好的关于成瘾的科普书,作者是一个recovery addict,也是神经学教授,做成瘾研究,书里对成瘾的神经机制,以及各种成瘾物质的作用原理都有很详细而易懂的介绍,对自己瘾君子的过去毫不掩饰,增加了书的个人性和趣味性。不过对于我来说好像新东西还是不够多——当然副作用就是,我可以说大多数内容的科学性都是可靠而且前沿的,展现了大多数研究领域近年的最新发展。不过我最近听了好多关于drug和addiction的书,从历史到科学,从个人体验到社会影响,我脚着可以告一段落了。
评分作者是个猛人,从13岁第一次喝酒就上瘾了,之后十年一路尝试各种能弄到手的毒品,烟酒大麻可卡因。。直到因为一些契机决定戒毒,然后去研究毒品成瘾机制,花了七年重读本科,又花好几年读研究生再真的去研究。我想这个原因是我会去看这本书的重要原因,因为,她去过死地,然后她回来了。 具体到这本书,我觉得有点神经科学基础读起来会顺一些。或者只是想对各种毒品分类,效果,作用机制有所了解的话,也可以看。不过,她还是讲的蛮深的,具体到脑区,到神经递质,到递质受体,我琢磨如果没有相关生物知识,可能看起来会略微有一点吃力。但是信息量很大,脉络也清楚。我觉得还是蛮好看的。
Never Enough 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书