On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, [email protected] went:
A new opinion piece has been published in the prestigious _Nature
Reviews Neuroscience_ disputing conventional wisdom that drug
addition is a unitary phenomenon (i.e. that all addictions work
through the same mechanism). I don't have a clue what "hedonic
allostasis" is, but it's clear from the abstract that they give the
conventional view on this important issue a good pummelling.
Now I could be wrong about this, but I believe that one of the
authors of that paper, a certain David Epstein, could well be the one
who is a long-standing member of TIPS,
That's me! What I find amusing is that, during the editing process,
the paper ended up with a title that was more emphatic than I'd have
chosen. In fact, I originally drafted part of the title as a question
("Do the differences matter?"), and the editors wanted something more
committal ("The differences do matter"). The parts of the paper I
wrote focused on human data, which were more ambiguous than the
lab-animal data were.
--David Epstein
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