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	<description>A neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs.</description>
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		<title>My TED talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 07:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the day. I was pretty nervous all week. About every second time I practiced it, I seemed to get something wrong, like taking a wrong turn on a country road and ending up at a muddy dead-end, looking at a swamp. But the auditorium was beautiful. Plush and purple and warm with people ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/my-ted-talk/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tickled PINC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a great conference!!! PINC (People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity) is like a Dutchified version of TED, and the main theme seems to be creativity &#8212; that&#8217;s what the &#8220;C&#8221; stands for &#8212; and what creativity looks like across disciplines including: science and its societal relevance, art and design, food, philosophy, and a few others. It was beautifully ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/tickled-pinc/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction, recovery, and self-trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, guys. A write-up of that talk I&#8217;m going to present. Actually, it&#8217;s a bit of an approximation, because I have to give another talk next week, before TED, at something called PINC, and I&#8217;m allowed 20 minutes instead of 8 minutes. So&#8230;.this is more elaborate than what I can say on TED. ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/addiction-recovery-and-self-trust/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Travel and trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! It&#8217;s been awhile. This is vacation time in the Netherlands. The kids are out of school for two weeks and we&#8217;re trying to do family-type things. I know, it&#8217;s a strange time to vacate, but the weather here is so spotty, this might be one of the few periods likely to get some sun ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/new-currents/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The thrill is gone! (filling the void of Reward Deficiency Syndrome)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to click here and listen to B. B. King sing &#8220;The Thrill is Gone,&#8221; you might notice that he does not look happy. Nor does he sound happy. And he&#8217;s sweating. A lot! He says he&#8217;s free, but I somehow doubt it. What happens when the thrill is gone? That&#8217;s a central ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/the-thrill-is-gone-checking-out-the-reward-deficiency-syndrome/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Running on empty: where eating disorders and drug addiction meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Elizabeth from the blog&#8230;. I am very pleased to present a guest post, created by Elizabeth, who has been a member of this blog community for at least a year. Thanks, Elizabeth, for your contributions until now, and especially for this fascinating post&#8211; The present “obesity epidemic” has given rise to public concern about ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/running-on-empty-where-eating-disorders-and-drug-addiction-meet/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does everything that starts off looking good have to end up being a mirage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those first puffs of pot were so rich, so sweet, so&#8230;promising. And that first hit of smack. Granted the needle stuff was a little rough, but can anything that feels this good actually be&#8230;um, bad? One of the most universal characteristics of drug use is the chimeric quality that&#8217;s almost always present, especially the first ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/does-everything-that-starts-off-looking-good-have-to-end-up-being-a-mirage/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cousins, not twins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few people commented on my last post that addiction was not the same as OCD. I agree: they overlap, but they&#8217;re certainly not synonymous. What I&#8217;ve been ruminating about is a related matter: the implication that substance addictions and behavioral addictions are the same. No, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re the same either. I called ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/cousins-not-twins/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The common denominator of all addictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said I&#8217;d use the next few posts to share what I learned at a recent conference on behavioral addictions. I should emphasize that the conference, held in Budapest, was billed as the the First International Conference on Behavioral Addictions. The idea that gambling, hypersexualized behavior, eating disorders (including obesity), and internet addictions are in ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/the-common-denominator-of-all-addictions/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Behavioral addictions: You don&#8217;t need drugs or booze to be an addict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi from Hungary. I&#8217;m at a conference on behavioral addictions. Two days of talks by experts &#8212; psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, clinical researchers, etc. &#8212; who want to understand behavioral addictions. These include compulsive gambling, eating disorders, hypersexuality or sex addiction, and internet or gaming addiction.  And I am really high on the flood of information, ...<a href="http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/behavioral-addictions-you-dont-need-drugs-or-booze-to-be-an-addict/"> (Read the rest.)</a>]]></description>
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