Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction

Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction

Moustafa, Ahmed A.

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Understanding the development of individual drug addictions are often difficult to understand and more often difficult to treat. The most successful treatments begin with studying why individuals become addicted to drugs and how to change their thinking and behaviour. Cognitive Disruptions in Drug Addiction: Impact on Behavioral Inhibition and Impulsivity focuses on the theories that cause drug addiction, including avoidance behavior, self-medication, reward sensitization, behavioral inhibition and impulsivity. Dr. Moustafa takes this book one step further by reviewing the psychological causes of relapse including the role stress, anxiety and depression play. By examining both the causes of drug addiction and relapse, this book will help clinicians create individualized treatment options for their patients suffering from drug addiction. Identifies key factors contributing to addiction, including stress, anxiety, and depressionReviews inhibition and impulsivity in drug useAssesses the cognitive underpinnings of behavioral choices in addictionDiscusses the argument of self-medication vs reward sensitizationExamines the psychological causes of why patients relapse INDICE: 1. Learning from aversive vs. appetitive outcome in drug addiction2. The role of contextual processes in drug use and relapse3. Avoidance behavior in addiction4. Behavioral inhibition and impulsivity as factors underlying drug use5. Delay, probability and effort discounting underlying addictive behaviors6. The varieties of risk taking behaviors in drug abuse7. Extinction learning in addiction: relevance to cue exposure therapy8. The psychological causes of relapse9. Future thinking and intolerance of uncertainty in addiction10. The bidirectional relationship between depression and addiction11. The role of stress and anxiety in drug use and relapse12. The effect of trauma on drug use13. Theories of Addiction: self-medication vs. reward sensitization14. Summary and future directions in addiction research

  • ISBN: 978-0-12-816979-7
  • Editorial: Academic Press
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 400
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2020
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés