The view that substance addiction is a brain disease, although widely accepted in the
neuroscience community, has become subject to acerbic criticism in recent years. These …

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 …

Long-term use of drugs can sometimes result in brain damage that greatly affects a person's
psychology and sometimes become indecent. This paper examines psychological disorders …

The ability to predict relapse is a major goal of drug addiction research. Clinical and
diagnostic measures are useful in this regard, but these measures do not fully and …

Background This review aims to identify whether risky decision-making is increased in
substance users, and the impact of substance type, polysubstance use status, abstinence …

Introduction Numerous neuroimaging studies of resting‐state functional imaging and voxel‐
based morphometry (VBM) have revealed that patients with substance use disorder (SUD) …

Neuroimaging studies in substance use disorder have shown widespread impairments in
white matter (WM) microstructure suggesting demyelination and axonal damage. However …

Background Neuroimaging studies reveal structural and functional including neurochemical
brain abnormalities in individuals with substance use disorders compared to healthy …

Background Cocaine use has been consistently associated with decreased gray matter
volumes in the prefrontal cortex. However, it is unclear if such neuroanatomical …

Tract‐based spatial statistics (TBSS) of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have
consistently shown diminished white matter (WM) integrity for individuals with cocaine use …