Behavioral Neuroscience of Drug Addiction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Self, David W. (Editor), Staley Gottschalk, Julie K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 3
• Subjects: 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...