Beating addiction: Why our brains may struggle to ignore alcohol, food cues AskADoctor DailyHealthTips HealthcareMagic
New research offers fascinating insights into how our brains ignore environmental cues of addictive substances or habits, why it's harder to ignore such cues when we're stressed, and how we might be able to beat addiction.
However, are our brains defenseless when we come into contact with these cues, or are our"central processing units" constantly hard at work, successfully keeping these distractions at bay? Working memory, or short term memory, allows us to hold information in our heads while we engage in other activities, for example, remembering a list of groceries when going to the supermarket.
Then, the researchers told the participants that differently colored circles meant different rewards for completing the diamond task. "To manipulate the ability of participants to control their attention resources, we asked them to do this task under conditions of both high memory load and low memory load," Watson explains.
"We have a set of control resources that are guiding us and helping us suppress these unwanted signals of reward. But, when those resources are taxed, these become more and more difficult to ignore," explains Watson.
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