Your brain hijacked - possessed by a chronic, relapsing brain disease. Scientists now view addiction as a disease, not a behavioural problem. Brain circuits involved in reward and pleasure, planning and control are dramatically changed. The priority is medical treatment, not shame and blame. But others challenge what they dub the 'disease rhetoric', arguing it's fatalistic and reductionist. Do we treat the brain, or the person? And, should we surrender control to the addicted brain?
Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder was one of the first editors of New Scientist magazine. He went on to make films for the BBC such as The Weather Machine. Most recently he has appeared on ABC TV in the notorious Great Global Warming Swindle. Nigel Calder says most experts usually get things wrong, as they did about black holes, continental drift, and now, climate change. How could so many professors be so much in error?
India and the legacy of Partition
Pakistan and the legacy of Partition
Fading words
The applied linguist, Ruth Wajnryb, talks about how some words and phrases go silent, fading out of our everyday lexicon until - like Tom, Dick and Harry who have simply walked away - they are labelled archaic or obsolete
The art of writing the government report
The anthropology of daily life
What is the worst argument in the world?
Stockmarket Panic
Stronger, smarter, nicer humans
Liquidity, Asset Prices and Market Efficiency
Muses, Madmen and Prophets
State of the Oceans
Meltzer, Malpass, Fed Cut Sends Signal `We Hear You' to Markets
Global Crises, Global Solutions
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