Computational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gutkin, Boris (Editor), Ahmed, Serge H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience ; 10
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Biomedicine.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.

Drug addiction is one of the most important public health problems in Western societies, and is a rising concern for developing nations. Over the past three decades, experimental research on the neurobiology and psychology of drug addiction has generated a tremendous amount of exciting data, from th...