Matt Field

1 week ago | medicalxpress.com | Matt Field

Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behavior like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It's a question that highlights a fundamental disconnect: the gap between intention and action. This apparent contradiction aligns with of addiction and with brain disease models, which suggest that repeated substance use changes brain function, making drug use compulsive and automatic, bypassing conscious decision-making.

1 week ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Nadja M Schneller |Jan Strugnell |Matt Field |Kerstin Bergh Johannesson

1 Introduction Anthropogenic impact on the environment and climate is inducing an unparalleled rate of change that is causing a shift of the global environment towards a point of no return (Richardson et al. 2023). Changes to the Earth's water cycle (Allan et al. 2020) in addition to direct effects mean that marine species are faced with many challenges including global warming, ocean acidification, pollution and overfishing (Doney et al. 2012).

1 week ago | tolerance.ca | Matt Field

By Matt Field, Professor of Psychology, University of Sheffield Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behaviour like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It’s a question that highlights a fundamental disconnect: the gap between intention and action.

1 week ago | theconversation.com | Matt Field

Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behaviour like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It’s a question that highlights a fundamental disconnect: the gap between intention and action. This apparent contradiction aligns with of addiction and with brain disease models, which suggest that repeated substance use changes brain function, making drug use compulsive and automatic, bypassing conscious decision-making.

1 week ago | thebulletin.org | Matt Field

Peering into wastewater for public health has a history dating back at least to the late 19th century, when a biologist in Boston cultured sewage in beef jelly, bouillon, boiled potatoes, and milk to see if anything would grow. Later, scientists in Scotland looked at wastewater to assess the spread of typhoid. After injecting monkeys with sewage in the 1930s, American researchers realized that wastewater polio virus concentrations correlated with community infections.