To understand addiction and how drugs react with your body, you need to develop a deeper understanding of your brain. The Brain Is Three Parts Your brain weighs approximately 3pounds and sits in your head, protected by the skull. It has many different parts but the main three components are...
Chapters on the basic pharmacology of stimulants and depressants, alcohol, and other drugs illustrate the specific and unique ways in which the brain and the central nervous system interact with, and are affected by, each of these substances. The material in The Science of Addiction is intended...
Addiction and the brain: the neurobiology of com- pulsion and its persistence. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2001;2:695-703.Hyman SE, Malenka RC (2001) Addiction and the brain: the neurobiology of compulsion and its persistence. Nat Rev Neurosci 2:695-703....
Because substances of abuse act directly on the reward center of the brain to deliver their high—this involves speedy and intense release of the neurotransmitter dopamine—addiction can be seen as a shortcut to reward, one that, over time, can have a high cost to physical and mental health....
Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of disease globally. Neuroscience promises to revolutionise our ability to treat addiction, lead to recognition of addiction as a 'real' disorder in need of medical treatment and thereby reduce stigma and...
I review the brain disease model of addiction promoted by medical, scientific, and clinical authorities in the US and elsewhere. I then show that the disease model is flawed because brain changes in addiction are similar to thosegenerallyobserved when recurrent, highly motivated goal seeking results...
The mission of this website is to educate people about the addict experience and the addiction science that explains that experience.
If you feelhigharound yourcrush, there's a physical reason for that, she said. "Science tells us that the chemical and hormonal changes are coded in our brains similar to addiction." 她说,如果你对你迷恋的对象感到兴奋,那是有物理原因的。“科学告诉我们,生化物质和荷尔蒙变化在我们的大脑中表达,...
(NIH 2023). We need bio-digital twin health management combining wearable biometric monitoring with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Developing comprehensive wellness literacy requires digital detox protocols and neuroplasticity training, particularly cultivating critical awareness of algorithmic addiction ...
Brain stimulation in the study and treatment of addiction. J Kuhn,M Möller,U Müller,... 被引量: 154发表: 2010年 Deep brain stimulation: from neurology to psychiatry? Functional stereotaxy was introduced in the late 1940s to reduce the morbidity of lobotomy in psychiatric disease by using...