Anna Lembke's Interviews
GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medi
Society Is At A Major Turning Point | Karl Friston Λ Anna Lembke
In today's episode, Karl Friston and Anna Lembke emphasize the urgency of reevaluating our personal and societal practices in the face of environmental, mental health, and addiction crises, through the lens of "active inference". Please consider signing up for TOEmail at https://www.curtjaimungal.org Support TOE:
951: Anna Lembke | Finding Dopamine Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dopamine Nation author Anna Lembke helps us understand why it's difficult to resist the temptations of a world designed to exploit our pursuit of pleasure. What We Discuss with Anna Lembke: The neuroscience of addiction and the role dopamine plays in keeping us hooked. How modern society's unrestricted indulgence in pl
Stanford Psychiatrist and Addiction Expert Anna Lembke - The New Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain, and Balance
We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... We've all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Dr Anna Lembke is here to help. Professor of Psychiatry at
For many of us, the word addiction quickly conjures up images of drugs and alcohol. But we’re often slower to apply the term to compulsive, tech-induced behaviors like playing video games, checking social media, or shopping online. We prefer to think of these pleasure-seeking activities as harmless distractions. Yet th
Breaking Free from Addiction and Childhood Trauma | with Dr. Anna Lembke
In this episode, Dr. Anna Lembke discusses how childhood trauma makes people more vulnerable to substance use disorders and addictive behaviors later in life. She explains the neurological reasons why trauma survivors often turn to drugs, alcohol or behaviors like gambling to self-soothe and cope with emotional pain. D
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