Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Addiction

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Self, David W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Staley Gottschalk, Julie K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Σειρά: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 3
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurochemistry.; Pharmacology.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing mental illness involving severe motivational disturbances and loss of behavioral control leading to personal dev- tation. The disorder af?icts millions of people, often co-occurring with other mental illnesses with enormous social and economic costs to socie...

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• Neuroplastic Alterations in the Limbic System Following Cocaine or Alcohol Exposure
• Dopamine Signaling in the Nucleus Accumbens of Animals Self-Administering Drugs of Abuse
• Amygdala Mechanisms of Pavlovian Psychostimulant Conditioning and Relapse
• Prefrontal Cortical Regulation of Drug Seeking in Animal Models of Drug Relapse
• Neural Substrates of Psychostimulant Withdrawal-Induced Anhedonia
• Sensitization Processes in Drug Addiction
• Imaging Receptor Changes in Human Drug Abusers
• Imaging Neurotransmitter Release by Drugs of Abuse
• Imaging Cognitive Deficits in Drug Abuse
• Neural Markers of Genetic Vulnerability to Drug Addiction
• The Role of Executive Control in Human Drug Addiction
• The Behavioral Economics of Drug Dependence: Towards the Consilience of Economics and Behavioral Neuroscience
• Novel Pharmacological Approaches to Drug Abuse Treatment.