University of Oxford, Christ Church

Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly seen as uncontrolled? What mechanisms are...

Human Flourishing/Eudaimonics

• Addiction,
• Drug Addiction,
• Drugs,
• Eudaimonics,
• Happiness,
• Human Flourishing

George F. Koob is a Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct...

Human Flourishing, continued

• Addiction,
• Human Behavior,
• Human Flourishing,
• Psychiatry,
• Psychotherapy

Sally Satel is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She has published...

• Addiction,
• Climate,
• Crime,
• Diet,
• Exercise,
• neuroscience

Risk & the Nature of Scientific Evidence: Climate, Crime, Addiction, Diet & ExerciseA discussion with Tony Haymet (Scripps Institution of...

Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania and University of California, San Diego

• Addiction,
• Ethics,
• Psychiatry,
• philosophy

George Ainslie is chief Psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at...

• Addiction

Neil Levy is the Deputy Director of Research at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics.

Maurizio Fava, Larry J. Young, Eric Nestler, Helen S. Mayberg, Linea Johnson

• Addiction,
• Emotion,
• Motivation,
• Oxytocin,
• Social Behavior,
• depression,
• neuroscience,
• reward,
• social bonding,
• vasopressin

Introduction from Chair - Maurizio Fava, MDFrontiers of Social Cognition - Larry J. Young, PhDSocial relationships are at the core of every healthy...