The Addicted Brain

Coursera.org - "The Addicted Brain", course about addictions

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Why does reward exist? What purpose does feeling good have? Dopamine, Reward, & Survival - Emory University

The Addicted Brain. A course that examines addiction and how it works.

Oui, il s'ouvre par cycle:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/addiction-and-the-brain

Je suis en train de vaincre mon addiction à Dota 2 grâce à ce mooc. C'est la dopamine qui fait tourner le monde, pas l'argent ou le sexe, mais la dopamine...

Le professeur de ce Mooc est une éminence dans le domaine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Kuhar

Incroyable le futur n'empêche: prendre des cours sur un sujet directement avec un spécialiste de niveau mondial...

A noter qu'il y'a également un mooc sur les addictions sur futurelearn, mais je n'ai pas cherché à comparer.

Et non, y'a pas de mooc sur les addictions en français.

I'm interested in the same. I've been doing this free online course as a starting point for my learning. Not all of its modules are exactly about the effects of drugs on the brain, but some are, and you can skip what you're not interested in.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/addiction-and-the-brain

Check out any of George Koob's review papers. He puts out plenty of these with other researchers, each offering insight on a different aspect of addiction neurobiology.

Additionally, this free course on Coursera has a fairly positive reputation. I have never gone through the entire course and I haven't checked it out in awhile, but I have spoken a couple of times with Dr. Kuhar, who put the course together, and I know that he is passionate about providing up-to-date info through this course to interested folks who are new to the field.

Most importantly, I would recommend volunteering part-time in an addiction neuroscience lab at your school, if you can find one (I only had two at my undergrad institution). Even if you don't plan to continue on that path, you can learn quite a bit from testing the research waters for awhile and spending time around people who have been studying these things for years. Good luck! I was in your shoes a few years ago and I've only become more interested as time has passed.

Definitely check out the SAMHSA website. Here's a free course on "The Addicted Brain" https://www.coursera.org/learn/addiction-and-the-brain. Look up The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook on Amazon... you may find it helpful. Also, here's a link to a resource list from my blog: https://mindremakeproject.org/resources/ (Check out the section on Addiction and Recovery). Hope this is helpful. Take care.

MOOCs on logic, math, statistics and probability, neuroscience (brain 101,^[1]^[2] its vulnerabilities to addiction, etc), metalearning, etc. If you want to give them a try, and if your priority is self-improvement and disclipline, start with the metalearning one. Which will also help with the process of gradual introduction of MOOC-based learning into your daily (monthly, yearly) schedule.

Also Duolingo for languages; Khan Academy, artofproblemsolving.com (too expensive, unfortunately), and brilliant.org for math (still looking for additional good math learning platforms that would have non-paywalled interaction with human tutors). And /r/booksuggestions/ when I’ve already determined what specifically am I looking for.

There should also be a good CBT-related self-help resource listed here, but I haven’t found any yet.