… neural sensitization in humans. It is one thing to demonstrate incentivesensitization in …
of our theory occasionally point out—quite another to demonstrate its occurrence in addicts. …

… If rendered hypersensitive, these systems cause pathological incentive motivation (‘wanting’…
in incentive sensitization and addiction? Does incentive sensitization occur in human addicts…

… of addiction are critically evaluated in light of the “incentivesensitization theory of addiction”,
… reinforcement, and hedonic accounts of addiction are neither necessary nor suffi cient to …

… do believe that incentivesensitization can make the temptations faced by addicts harder to
resist … This is because the underlying neural sensitization can distort psychological incentive …

… We asked, therefore, whether the degree of incentive-sensitization seen in the present study
varied as a function of the number of ‘addiction criteria’ met. We found that on a number of …

… whether incentive sensitization occurs in humans. We conclude that since incentive sensitization
… an important initial step in the addiction process. During the expression of full-blown …

… error about incentive-sensitization when they said that we claim incentive-sensitization to be
… Tolerance to aversive effects did not exclude a role for incentive-sensitization in addiction in …

… before initiation were examined to explore the incentive sensitization theory of addiction. …
responses, consistent with the incentive sensitization theory. Logistic regression showed that …

… In this chapter we present a brief overview of the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction.
This description is excerpted from our previous articles on the topic ( Robinson & Berridge, …

… incentive-sensitization theory (IST), addiction is characterized by the decoupling of two
subconsciously operating psychological processes ‘wanting’ (ie, incentive … smoking addiction with …