… to drugs of abuse can induce neural sensitization in humans. It is one thing to demonstrate
incentivesensitization in … crave drugs will contain a neural substrate that has been rendered …

… This paper presents a biopsychological theory of drug addiction, the ‘Incentive-Sensitization …
crave drugs? That is, what is the psychological and neurobiological basis of drug craving? …

… Another problem for withdrawal-based explanations is that drug craving is often elicited
by drug administration itself, in association with euphorigenic effects, at the moments when …

… That is, compensatory suppressions of drug-elicited … incentivesensitization as the primary
mechanism for the compulsive craving in addiction, consistent with incentive sensitization. …

… First, the basic science incentive sensitization model of wanting/craving for drug [3] and … as
posited by the incentive sensitization model of addiction. Evidence from human experimental …

… )‘incentive–sensitization theory’ accounts for the psychological and neurobiological basis of
drug craving … According to this theory, pleasure is the first stage of incentive motivation and …

… craving (for a review see Hill 2007). Moreover, while there are important differences between
food and drug craving, … to food cues in obesity and to drug cues in addiction (eg Berridge …

… in the craving for drugs and alcohol which is a major reason for relapse of addicted people.
Craving might be induced by drug-related cues. This suggests that disruption of craving-…

… , these systems cause pathological incentive motivation (‘wanting’) for drugs. We address …
role of learning in incentive sensitization and addiction? Does incentive sensitization occur in …

… drug consumption is not due to tolerance but to sensitization to the drug’s reinforcing effect
or ... an increase in drug ‘… (2003) made regarding incentive-sensitization was to say that drug …