Drug addiction may be a goal-directed choice driven by excessive drug value in negative
affective states, a habit driven by strong stimulus− response associations, or a compulsion …

Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), developed by the National Institute of
Mental Health as a neuroscience-informed alternative to traditional psychiatric nosology, is …

A growing preclinical and clinical body of work on the effects of chronic drug use and drug
addiction has extended the scope of inquiry from the putative reward-related subcortical …

Human prefrontal cortex (hPFC) is a complex brain region involved in cognitive and
emotional processes and several psychiatric disorders. Here, we present an overview of the …

In the 2000s, online games became popular, while studies of Internet gaming addiction
emerged, outlining the negative consequences of excessive gaming, its prevalence, and …

We revisit our hypothesis that drug addiction can be viewed as the endpoint of a series of
transitions from initial voluntarily drug use to habitual, and ultimately compulsive drug use …

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder that has been characterized by (1)
compulsion to seek and take the drug,(2) loss of control in limiting intake, and (3) emergence …

This study tested the effects of a new cognitive-bias modification (CBM) intervention that
targeted an approach bias for alcohol in 214 alcoholic inpatients. Patients were assigned to …

In the past decade, research has accumulated suggesting that excessive Internet use can
lead to the development of a behavioral addiction. Internet addiction has been considered …

Drug addiction is increasingly viewed as the endpoint of a series of transitions from initial
drug use—when a drug is voluntarily taken because it has reinforcing, often hedonic, effects …