The past two decades have witnessed a surge in interest for ideas and methods from
complexity science—the study of systems of many elements that may interact with each …

In their recent article (Time to connect: bringing social context into addiction neuroscience
(Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 17, 592–599 (2016)) 1, Heilig et al. suggest that the lack of progress …

Contemporary models define addiction as a “brain disorder” characterized by drug/gambling-
related neuroadaptations that ultimately have an impact on psychological functioning and …

We propose to shift the understanding of addiction from the standard biomedical Brain
Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) to a model of biased choice in goal-oriented, embodied …

Theories and explanations of addiction tend to focus on different and often opposing
theoretical frame works rooted in specific areas of our understanding of human behavior. For …

In February 2014, the journal Nature published an editorial concerned primarily with the
attempt by animal rights activists to close down addiction research labs that experimented …

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM, 2017) Public Policy Statement defines
addiction as “a chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry …

The historian of medicine Charles Rosenberg wrote a few years ago that “[w] e have never
been more aware of the arbitrary and constructed qualities of psychiatric diagnoses, yet we …

The way addiction is viewed by scientists, clinicians, and the public has shifted
tremendously in the past two centuries. More specifically, there has been a shift from the …

Disagreement about the nature of 'addiction', such as whether it is a brain disease, arises in
part because the label is applied to a wide range of phenomena. This creates conceptual …