This paper reviews the new ideas emerging from neuroscience regarding the question of why some people are compelled to use drugs. During the process of drug exposure, the brain’s motivational system is changed in ways that co-opts the individual’s motivational system. Changes in the brain’s motivational structures along with changes in the brain’s self-regulatory structures compel an individual to drug use. Ways to reverse those changes in an addicted brain have been identified, as have ways to enhance self-regulatory control. The information from neuroscience offers a new perspective on “loss of control” as well as offering implications for treatment
In the present paper, we suggest a potential new ethical analysis of addiction focusing on the relat...
Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of di...
This paper presents a biopsychological theory of drug addiction, the `Incentive-Sensitization Theory...
Neuroscience models have much to offer the field of addiction, but they will be self-defeating if th...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96716/1/jeab.2005.101-04.pd
Drug abuse has long fascinated philosophers and scientists. Many different models have attempted to ...
Developments in the field of neuroscience, according to its proponents, offer the prospect of an enh...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75373/1/j.1360-0443.95.8s2.19.x.pd
During the last two decades, neuroscience research has proliferated examining brain mechanisms that ...
For much of the past century, scientists studying drug abuse labored in the shadows of powerful myth...
Addiction coopts the brain's neuronal circuits necessary for insight, reward, motivation, and social...
Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder defined by cyclic patterns of compulsive drug seekin...
There continues to be a debate on whether addiction is best understood as a brain disease or a moral...
Neuroscientific approaches to drug addiction traditionally have been based on the premise that addic...
Advances in neuroscience identified addiction as a chronic brain disease with strong genetic, neurod...
In the present paper, we suggest a potential new ethical analysis of addiction focusing on the relat...
Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of di...
This paper presents a biopsychological theory of drug addiction, the `Incentive-Sensitization Theory...
Neuroscience models have much to offer the field of addiction, but they will be self-defeating if th...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96716/1/jeab.2005.101-04.pd
Drug abuse has long fascinated philosophers and scientists. Many different models have attempted to ...
Developments in the field of neuroscience, according to its proponents, offer the prospect of an enh...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75373/1/j.1360-0443.95.8s2.19.x.pd
During the last two decades, neuroscience research has proliferated examining brain mechanisms that ...
For much of the past century, scientists studying drug abuse labored in the shadows of powerful myth...
Addiction coopts the brain's neuronal circuits necessary for insight, reward, motivation, and social...
Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder defined by cyclic patterns of compulsive drug seekin...
There continues to be a debate on whether addiction is best understood as a brain disease or a moral...
Neuroscientific approaches to drug addiction traditionally have been based on the premise that addic...
Advances in neuroscience identified addiction as a chronic brain disease with strong genetic, neurod...
In the present paper, we suggest a potential new ethical analysis of addiction focusing on the relat...
Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of di...
This paper presents a biopsychological theory of drug addiction, the `Incentive-Sensitization Theory...