Addiction: a loss of plasticity of the brain?
...the transition to addiction could result from a persistent impairment of synaptic plasticity in a key structure of the brain.
In a new paper, ?Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions,? published this week in the journal Science, Ackerman and his co-authors, Christopher Nocera of Harvard and John Bargh of Yale, describe the results of six studies showing a variety of ways that tactile sensations can affect decision-making. From workplace judgments to financial decisions, they write, ?haptically acquired information exerts a rather broad influence over cognition, in ways of which we are probably often unaware.?
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