
Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke
Dopamine regulates reward, motivation, and movement, and plays a central role in all forms of addiction whether substance-based or behavioral

2 episodes on Huberman Lab
Dr. Anna Lembke is the Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a leading expert in addiction neurobiology and behavioral addictions, with extensive research and clinical experience in treating substance use disorders and their underlying neurobiological mechanisms.

Dopamine regulates reward, motivation, and movement, and plays a central role in all forms of addiction whether substance-based or behavioral

Addiction arises from dopamine dysregulation where the brain's reward system becomes imbalanced through repeated exposure to superstimuli that flood the brain with dopamine