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When you do something automatically, you lose control. It's what happens to kleptomaniacs. – Salah El Mestikawy Listen to a recent radio show that aired on France Culture on kleptomania, including an interview with Salah El Mestikawy. https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/lsd-la-serie-documentaire/au-voleur-34-voyage-en-kleptomanie
Frequently encountered in the elderly, Alzheimer’s is considered a neurodegenerative disease, which means that it is accompanied by a significant, progressive loss of neurons and their nerve endings, or synapses. A joint French and Canadian study published in Scientific Reports now challenges this view. Conducted among more than 170 subjects at various stages of Alzheimer’s … Read more
View a video developed by Salah El-Mestikawy and his collaborators, which explains how alcohol and drugs highjack the brain’s reward system in addiction. In French only. On the MAAD digital website: http://www.maad-digital.fr/video/systeme-de-recompense-et-addiction