In the News
for the week of February 17, 2025
NBC10 PhiladelphiaThis 30-second task will improve your marriage
Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discusses effects that compulsive use of social media, online shopping and video games can have on a relationship, and some tips on how to improve.
HealioYearly overdose deaths equal an ‘entire Vietnam war’ despite receding pandemic-era spike
The rates of fatal drug overdoses stayed higher than expected in most states from 2020 to 2023 compared with trajectories before 2020, a cross-sectional analysis in JAMA Network Open showed. Several states experienced significant rises in such rates vs. their pre-COVID-19 pandemic patterns, whereas the findings suggest that the decline in overdose deaths may simply be an effect of COVID-19. Keith Humphreys, the Esther Ting Memorial Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, provides comment.
All InAll In ~ A Gambling Addiction Series
Podcast host Marie Osborne talks with Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, in Part 1 of the news series on gambling addiction, "All In."
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and PerspectivesDopamine ‘gas pedal’ and serotonin ‘brake’ team up to accelerate learning
Mice learn fastest and most reliably when they experience an increase in dopamine paired with an inhibition of serotonin, a new study shows. Robert Malenka, the Nancy Friend Pritzker professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, provides comment.