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3:26 Learning Objectives
5:29 The Pleasure-Pain Balance
21:20 The Plenty Paradox
23:51 What to Do About It (DOPAMINE)
39:27 Learning Objectives
39:51 The 24-Hour Phone-Free Challenge
40:30 Q&A

Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, presented a webinar as part of the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series. Her lecture was free to the public thanks to a generous grant from Three Valleys Community Foundation.

Dr. Lembke explained, “This is a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, tweeting…the increased numbers, variety and potency are staggering. As such, we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Yet it is possible to find contentment and connectedness by keeping dopamine in check.” In this talk, Professor Lembke provided a practical, science-informed approach to addressing compulsive overconsumption of everything from food to sex, to video games.

Her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 30 languages. It combines

the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of recovery to explore the problem of overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

The free webinar was held on Friday, March 8, 2024, from 12:00 -1:00 pm PT via Zoom. It included 20 minutes for questions and answers following Dr. Lembke’s presentation. The Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities at https://www.mhacc-usa.org will provide simultaneous Chinese interpretation.

The Alan Hu Foundation was created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, Alan. He passed away due to mental disorders in 2018 at the age of 15. Their mission is to promote mental health, raise awareness and remove stigma surrounding psychiatric disorders, and to support fundamental research for cures.

For further information and to support the Alan Hu Foundation, please visit the website: https://alanhufoundation.org/helping