“I don’t take no for a solution. And this can be a message that I say to younger folks, “You need to dare to do issues. And nobody has the proper to say, ‘You can’t convey a brand new perspective into issues.’ And so, I at all times say ‘Be daring and persevere.’”
— Dr. Nora Volkow
Nora D. Volkow, MD, is Director of the Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being. NIDA is the world’s largest funder of scientific analysis on the well being features of drug use and dependancy. Dr. Volkow’s work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug dependancy is a mind dysfunction. As a analysis psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the usage of mind imaging to research how substance use impacts mind capabilities. Particularly, her research have documented how adjustments within the dopamine system have an effect on the capabilities of mind areas concerned with reward and self-control in dependancy. She has additionally made essential contributions to the neurobiology of weight problems, ADHD, and growing old.
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#673: Dr. Nora Volkow — Director of the Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- Comply with the Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):
Web site | Nora’s Weblog | Twitter | Fb
- Dependancy: A Illness of Free Will by Dr. Nora Volkow | APA 2015
- Leon Trotsky Was My Grandfather: An Interview With Esteban Volkov | Jacobin
- The Trotsky Assassination | Historical past
- Bloodstained Ice Axe Used to Kill Trotsky Emerges After Many years within the Shadows | The Guardian
- A Concept on the Nature of Physiologic Opiate Dependence: A Formal Assertion | NIDA Analysis Monograph
- Understanding Quantitative Evaluation in Chemistry | ThoughtCo.
- Revolutionary Thinker | The Washington Submit
- The College Well being Science Heart at Houston
- Cerebral Blood Movement in Persistent Cocaine Customers: A Research with Positron Emission Tomography | The British Journal of Psychiatry
- The Scientist Battling the Dependancy Disaster | Nature
- Demerol (Meperidine Hydrochloride, USP) | FDA
- Why Fentanyl is a Drug Supplier’s Dream — However a Household’s Nightmare | Narconon
- Why Xylazine, the Veterinary Drug That Federal Officers Name an “Rising Risk,” Doesn’t Reply to Naloxone | CBS Information
- America’s Battle on Medicine — 50 Years Later | The Management Convention on Civil and Human Rights
- The Drug Battle’s Deepest Failure: Making Customers the Enemy | Mom Jones
- Undoing Medicine: How Hurt Discount Is Altering the Way forward for Medicine and Dependancy by Maia Szalavitz | Amazon
- Dr. Nora D. Volkow: A Normal within the Drug Battle | The New York Instances
- Psychedelic and Dissociative Medicine | NIDA
- Psychedelics Could Reduce Concern of Demise and Dying, Just like Emotions Reported by These Who’ve Had Close to Demise Experiences | Johns Hopkins Drugs
- Why Psychedelic Medicine Could Change into a Key Remedy for PTSD and Melancholy | Smithsonian Journal
- NIH-Funded Psychedelic Trial Will Research Whether or not Hallucinogen Can Assist People who smoke Stop | NBC Information
- Research Design 101 | Himmelfarb Well being Sciences Library
- Funding Reducing-Edge Scientific Analysis | Saisei Basis
- Erik Vance — The Magic and Energy of Placebo | The Tim Ferriss Present #194
- The Drawback on the Coronary heart of Trendy Psychedelic Scientific Analysis | New Atlas
- Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy — LSD Microdosing, Classical Psychedelics vs. Ketamine, Science and Velocity in New Zealand, Placebo Choices, and The Infinite Prospects of Finding out Thoughts-Altering Compounds | The Tim Ferriss Present #619
- Elevated International Integration within the Mind after Psilocybin Remedy for Melancholy | Nature Drugs
- No Hallucinations? LSD Kinfolk Seem to Deal with Melancholy in Mice with out Apparent Aspect Results | Science
- Psychoplastogens: A Promising Class of Plasticity-Selling Neurotherapeutics | Journal of Experimental Neuroscience
- Psilocybin Mushrooms Discovered to Assist Folks with Alcohol Use Dysfunction | NBC Information
- Psilocybin Remedy Sharply Reduces Extreme Ingesting, Small Research Exhibits | The New York Instances
- How Magic Mushrooms Can Assist People who smoke Kick the Behavior | Quick Wave
- Neurocircuitry of Dependancy | Neuropsychopharmacology
- Dr. Gül Dölen on Rethinking Psychedelics, New Functions (Autism, Stroke, and Allergy symptoms), The Neurobiology of Newbie’s Thoughts, Octopuses on MDMA, and The Grasp Key of Metaplasticity | The Tim Ferriss Present #667
- Dr. John Krystal — All Issues Ketamine, The Most Complete Podcast Episode Ever | The Tim Ferriss Present #625
- How Does Ketamine Work In another way from Different Psychedelics? | Psychology Right this moment
- Intranasal Salvinorin A Improves Neurological Consequence in Rhesus Monkey Ischemic Stroke Mannequin Utilizing Autologous Blood Clot | Journal of Cerebral Blood Movement & Metabolism
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Evaluation of Its Evolution and Present Functions | Industrial Psychiatry Journal
- Deep Mind Stimulation | Johns Hopkins Drugs
- Ultrasound as a Neurotherapeutic: A Circuit- and System-Primarily based Interrogation | Focus
- Low-Depth Steady Ultrasound Therapies — A Systematic Evaluation of Present State-of-the-Artwork and Future Views | Journal of Scientific Drugs
- Targeted Ultrasound for Parkinson’s Illness | The Michael J. Fox Basis
- An Investigation of Low-Depth Targeted Ultrasound for Dependancy | NIH Reporter
- Is It Too Quickly To Begin Speaking a couple of Treatment for Dependancy? | Nora’s Weblog at NIDA
- Why Is There Comorbidity between Substance Use Issues and Psychological Sicknesses? | NIDA
- Suicide Deaths Are a Main Part of the Opioid Disaster that Should Be Addressed | NIDA Archives
SHOW NOTES
- [06:09] Cadaver homework.
- [09:07] The Trotsky connection.
- [17:07] How Nora’s father considered the position of science.
- [20:59] Julian Villarreal.
- [27:38] A perspective of perseverance.
- [33:48] Instilling perseverance in youthful scientists.
- [35:08] Dancing with Demerol.
- [40:05] The present state of dependancy within the US.
- [44:28] The Battle on Medicine.
- [49:42] Rising societal confidence in therapeutic psychedelics.
- [55:38] Recommendation for researchers in search of extra federal funding.
- [1:02:12] Gauging the worth of the hallucinogenic expertise.
- [1:06:04] Implications for a number of functions of 1 compound.
- [1:13:36] Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and a promising various.
- [1:19:49] New hope for Parkinson’s illness victims?
- [1:23:51] Comorbidities, dependancy concerns, and different parting ideas.
MORE DR. NORA VOLKOW QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW
“… Science must be guided by knowledge, however science has a non secular nature to it additionally. And as soon as a mannequin is created, it turns into very tough to vary it. And it takes an extended, very long time for ideas which have been consolidated, as accepted as the reality, to be questioned.”
— Dr. Nora Volkow
“I don’t take no for a solution. And this can be a message that I say to younger folks, “You need to dare to do issues. And nobody has the proper to say, ‘You can’t convey a brand new perspective into issues.’ And so, I at all times say ‘Be daring and persevere.’”
— Dr. Nora Volkow
“When it comes to the warfare on medicine, I feel that principally what it did was it created a mechanism that would perpetuate structural racism. It is rather tragic to see how its enforcement led to the incarceration of younger black Individuals.”
— Dr. Nora Volkow
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