14 Quotes by Nora Volkow

Addiction is a disease - a treatable disease - and it needs to be understood.

When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.

One of the most powerful things that makes us feel good is when someone we admire, appreciate, for example, values us.

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

There's a pattern of brain changes that we have shown is common across various types of addiction that we've also seen in pathologically obese individuals,

It's a sense of doing something that can improve the quality of life for people, ... Of course I admire (Trotsky), I think he was an incredibly visionary individual.

It's a compulsion, it's a need that goes beyond the ability to consciously control it, and in that respect it's very similar to drug addiction.

They become part of our everyday lives. You see an ad for medication the way you see an ad for shampoo, and the message is that it's just like an everyday thing.

In animal studies ... exercise has been found to increase dopamine levels and to raise the number of dopamine receptors.