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.
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.
發表於2024-12-24
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圖書標籤: 心理學 英文 上癮 科普 成癮 neuroscience addiction 2
作者是個猛人,從13歲第一次喝酒就上癮瞭,之後十年一路嘗試各種能弄到手的毒品,煙酒大麻可卡因。。直到因為一些契機決定戒毒,然後去研究毒品成癮機製,花瞭七年重讀本科,又花好幾年讀研究生再真的去研究。我想這個原因是我會去看這本書的重要原因,因為,她去過死地,然後她迴來瞭。 具體到這本書,我覺得有點神經科學基礎讀起來會順一些。或者隻是想對各種毒品分類,效果,作用機製有所瞭解的話,也可以看。不過,她還是講的蠻深的,具體到腦區,到神經遞質,到遞質受體,我琢磨如果沒有相關生物知識,可能看起來會略微有一點吃力。但是信息量很大,脈絡也清楚。我覺得還是蠻好看的。
評分很好的關於成癮的科普書,作者是一個recovery addict,也是神經學教授,做成癮研究,書裏對成癮的神經機製,以及各種成癮物質的作用原理都有很詳細而易懂的介紹,對自己癮君子的過去毫不掩飾,增加瞭書的個人性和趣味性。不過對於我來說好像新東西還是不夠多——當然副作用就是,我可以說大多數內容的科學性都是可靠而且前沿的,展現瞭大多數研究領域近年的最新發展。不過我最近聽瞭好多關於drug和addiction的書,從曆史到科學,從個人體驗到社會影響,我腳著可以告一段落瞭。
評分周日在書店陪孩子學習。我下午開始看這本書。作者解釋瞭眾多的藥品和毒品以及它們對大腦起的作用。因為加入瞭作者自己的個人經曆,所以使得解釋不是那麼枯燥。很希望能多讀一些如何戒癮的篇幅。
評分周日在書店陪孩子學習。我下午開始看這本書。作者解釋瞭眾多的藥品和毒品以及它們對大腦起的作用。因為加入瞭作者自己的個人經曆,所以使得解釋不是那麼枯燥。很希望能多讀一些如何戒癮的篇幅。
評分很好的關於成癮的科普書,作者是一個recovery addict,也是神經學教授,做成癮研究,書裏對成癮的神經機製,以及各種成癮物質的作用原理都有很詳細而易懂的介紹,對自己癮君子的過去毫不掩飾,增加瞭書的個人性和趣味性。不過對於我來說好像新東西還是不夠多——當然副作用就是,我可以說大多數內容的科學性都是可靠而且前沿的,展現瞭大多數研究領域近年的最新發展。不過我最近聽瞭好多關於drug和addiction的書,從曆史到科學,從個人體驗到社會影響,我腳著可以告一段落瞭。
Never Enough 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載