What makes addiction a brain disease?

上瘾如何成了一种大脑病变？

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In fairness, the scientists who forged the brain disease concept had good intentions.

公正得来讲，那些缔造了大脑病变概念的科学家们的意图是好的。

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I am a working neurologist who sees brain disease causing mental dysfunction every day.

我是一个神经科医师，每天都能见到大脑疾患引起的精神障碍。

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Some develop encephalitis, a brain disease that can lead to headaches, coma or seizures.

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We've found that stimulation, electrical stimulation deep in the brain can help patients that have Parkinson's Disease and can reduce the tremors and loss of muscle control that many patients with Parkinson's Disease use.

我们已经发现,这种脑部深层的电刺激,可以缓解帕金森氏症患者的症状,如震颤和肌肉丧失控制,许多帕金森氏症患者都使用这种疗法

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When it reaches the brain, levodopa is changed into dopamine, the chemical that is lacking in people with the disease.

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For decades the plaques and Lewy bodies were viewed merely as by-products of brain disease.

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Substances that cannot cross this barrier are unlikely to make effective treatments for a brain disease.

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Currently medical science can only determine the existence of the brain disease after death.

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