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Tanning Bed Addicts
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Air date: March 18, 2012
Host: Kathy Miller, MD
Interview: Lawrence A. Mark, MD, PhD
dermatologist, IU Health Physicians
assistant professor of dermatology at the IU School of Medicine
Tanning bed addicts. Spring is high season for tanning parlors. But many people like to tan year-round.
A new study in the journal Addiction Biology looked at brain activity during tanning and found that tanning may be addictive. Dermatologist Lawrence A. Mark, MD, PhD, discusses the study and its findings with Sound Medicine’s Kathy Miller, MD.
Dr. Mark is assistant professor of dermatology at the IU School of Medicine; he has a practice with IU Health Physicians.
Additional Resources:
- Article: How Tanning Changes the Brain, from the NYT
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