Todd Maddox, Ph.D. has doctorates in Psychology and Neuroscience and studies the brain basis of learning, memory, and performance. He is interested in the interplay between emotion, cognition, and behavior. In this episode, we have an interesting discussion about dopamine, addiction, the money and sex connection, and more.

Highlights

Todd tells how he got into the combination of psychology and neuroscience.
The answer to every psychological problem lies in the brain.
To deal with addiction, willpower is not the answer. Understanding the brain helps.
We talk a lot about dopamine and addiction.
Behaviors can be influenced by genetics. Behavioral genetics tries to determine the percentage of specific behaviors that can be inherited.
Todd explains why recognizing habits is so difficult.
We talk about how money and sex are connected.
By pairing a memory of when you were satisfied with an experience of dissatisfaction, you can train your brain to have a more positive response.
We talk about the neuroscience explanation of the moving stupids.
In science, the more you know, the more you don’t know.
The more that we learn, the more we’ll be able to understand things, like mysticism, that we don’t understand now.
Todd shares his views about Artificial Intelligence and how to make it closer to how the brain works

Links
Todd Maddox on LinkedIn