Indoor tanning may be an addiction abetted by both genetic and psychiatric factors
(Georgetown University Medical Center) A combination of elevated symptoms of depression along with modifications in a gene responsible for dopamine activity, important to the brain's pleasure and reward system, appear to influence an addiction to indoor tanning in young, white non-Hispanic women.
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