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Molecular mechanisms of reward and aversion

January 22, 2016
Robert Malenka
Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
"Why do we do what we do?" Rob Malenka of Stanford University says the answer is in our brains. He says that the reward circuits in our brains get modified by addiction, and new neuroscience tools will help us understand the basis of both decision-making and addiction.