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7.2 Mood, habits, and addiction

Happiness

  • Related to
    • Reward prediction errors
    • certain rewards
    • expected values

Habits

  • Fundamentals
    • Learned,后天习得
    • fast, efficient: 执行时无需复杂思考
    • Require little cognitive resources: 习惯形成后无需占用太多大脑思考资源
    • hard to change

Drug addiction

  • will mess up the reward system we mentioned in happiness
  • drugs of abuse
    • risk factors for addiction
      • Chronic stress
      • history of psychological trauma
      • neuropsychiatric disorders
      • behavioural genetic traits

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  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    • people with a range of reactions after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.
    • People who have PTSD may continue to feel stressed or frightened, even though they are not in danger
    • Disgnosis: their symptoms last for an extended period after a traumatic event and begin to interfere with aspects of daily life,
  • Anxiety:
    • feel extremely worried or nervous more frequently about these and other things
  • Depression
    • The symptoms range from mild to severe and can disrupt a person’s ability to carry out everyday activities.
    • Genetic and environment related to this disorder
  • Bipolar disorder
    • manic-depressive illness
    • People with bipolar disorder often experience
      • periods of extremely “up,” elated, irritable, or energized behavior (known as manic episodes)
      • and very “down,” sad, indifferent, or hopeless periods (known as depressive episodes).
  • Schizophrenia
    • mental disorder, characterized by hallucinations, delusions