Addiction: The Neuroscience of Wanting More - Marlow

Addiction: The Neuroscience of Wanting More 🧠🔥

A Tapped In Talk with Orla Mallon

A lecture in a pub with a nice cold beverage… what more could you want? 🍻We’re swapping whiteboards for bar stools and dry textbooks for fascinating stories about the human brain.

Why is it so hard to stop scrolling, snacking, drinking, gambling — or going back for just one more?Addiction isn’t about weak willpower or bad choices. It’s about how our brains are wired.

In this eye-opening and accessible talk, we’ll dive inside the neuroscience of desire, reward, and compulsion. You’ll discover how everyday habits and serious addictions share the same brain circuitry — and why modern life is perfectly designed to keep us wanting more.

What You’ll Learn 📘

🧠 How the brain’s reward system really works

🎯 Why dopamine isn’t about pleasure — but motivation

🔁 How habits and addictions form at a neural level

📱 Why modern technology, food, and substances are so addictive

💡 What neuroscience tells us about recovery, self-control, and change

Event Details

🗓️ Thursday 12th March

🚪 Doors Open – 6pm

⏰ First Sitting – 6:30 - 7:30pm

⏰ Second Sitting - 8:30-9:30pm

📍 Duke of Clarence, Marlow

Speaker: Orla Mallon | Neuroscientist

Address: 56-58 High St, Marlow SL7 1AH

See you there 💡