Through sequential waves of drug-induced neurochemical stimulation, addiction co-opts the
brain's neuronal circuits that mediate reward, motivation to behavioral inflexibility and a …

Alcohol misuse is a major public concern. Impulsivity has been recognised as a significant
risk factor predisposing for the initiation of alcohol use, continuation and excessive alcohol …

According to the triadic neurocognitive model of addiction to drugs (eg, cocaine) and non-
drugs (eg, gambling), weakened “willpower” associated with these behaviors is the product …

Over the last quarter century, researchers have peered into the living human brain to
develop and refine mechanistic accounts of alcohol-induced behavior, as well as …

Alcohol and nicotine intake result in neurological alterations at the circuit level. Resting state
functional connectivity has shown great potential in identifying these alterations. However …

Short-term abstinent alcoholics have shown increased engagement of reward regions and
reduced engagement of executive control regions. There is no report yet on whether these …

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) continues to be challenging to treat despite the best available
interventions, with two-thirds of individuals going on to relapse by 1 year after treatment …

The insula, a structure involved in higher order representation of interoceptive states, has
recently been implicated in drug craving and social stress. Here, we performed brain …

Interoception, defined as the ability to perceive and interpret body signals, may play an
important role in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Earlier studies suggested an association …

Rationale Alcohol effects on social cognition have been studied by measuring facial emotion
recognition, empathy, Theory of Mind (ToM) and other forms of information processing …