Valerie Voon

Valerie Voon, neuropsychiatrist and researcher who advises on impulse control disorders, explains why dopamine agonist behavioral side effects are stigmatized. She discusses how to reframe these changes as medical side effects. The conversation covers lack of patient insight, shifting identities and the heavy personal and financial costs people can face.

Valerie Voon, a neuropsychiatry professor at Cambridge who studies dopamine and impulse-control, explains how dopamine shapes reward and risk. She breaks down reward prediction and learning. Short, clear takes on why certain drugs can drive risky, compulsive behaviors.