Brain Addiction Research Paper

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Addiction destroys the brain, the soul, and the emotional side of your brain that can take over your feelings and empathy towards others. Addiction destroys the brain because you learn new habits that can be bad for you.The brain gives itself a reward system that goes along with these habits. “If you taste or experience something that you like, that feels good, you're reinforced to do that again” (Rodgers).This gives evidence that your brain trains itself to accept these feelings and addictions. Addictions can train your brain to react, to accept, and to reward bad behaviors. Addiction manipulates the brain into believing that these addictions are good for you, so this will make it very hard to stop the addiction …show more content…

Or if your hungry your body will send you to the kitchen or wherever to get food. Our body sends signals back and forth all day. “Childress has shown that people who are addicted don’t have to consciously register a cue for it to arouse their reward system”(Smith). This shows that addiction is just an automatic response to the reward system that your body and brain adjust to.There are plenty of addiction that are way more than drugs or alcohol. An example of addiction is, exercise, food, caffeine and many more. These can mess with your mental and physical …show more content…

Caffeine can also have many withdraw symptoms such as headaches, behavior change, and mood differences.These symptoms can cause people to keep drinking so they don’t have to experience these few symptoms. This can be considered both, mental and physical health. This can be very unhealthy because once you get addicted your body learns it’s okay to drink it every morning, which means your body is adjusting to the chemicals and ingredients in coffee, which could be harming

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