Not exact matches
Tough presents striking
research from neuroendocrinology and other fields revealing that childhood psychological traumas — from physical and sexual abuse to physical and emotional neglect, divorce, parental incarceration, and
addiction, things found more often (though by no means exclusively) in impoverished families — overwhelm developing bodies» and minds» ability to manage the stress of events,
resulting in «all kinds of serious and long - lasting negative effects, physical, psychological, and neurological.»
The scientists are now expanding their
research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at
addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their
results translate to humans.
The
results have just been published in the International journal
Addiction Research and Theory, and are one of several studies from Aarhus University focusing on medical doctors» consumption of substances and substance use disorders.
Recent
research shows excess body fat and
resulting inflammation impairs taste bud function, playing a key role in driving more sugar consumption and
addiction.
In the course of procrastinating over a deadline — I mean conducting
research for this review — I typed «Is Internet
addiction real» into a Google window and received 29 million
results and no conclusive answer.