Format Video and audio recordings Publication Date 27 January 2015 Published by / Citation TEDMED Themes Addiction Keywords addiction Neuroscience Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Messenger Share via email Why Do Our Brains Get Addicted? Submitted by Edie - 11 March 2020 Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.