Drug consumption is driven by a drug's pharmacological effects, which are experienced as
rewarding, and is influenced by genetic, developmental, and psychosocial factors that …

Drug addiction and obesity appear to share several properties. Both can be defined as
disorders in which the saliency of a specific type of reward (food or drug) becomes …

Aims Deficits in behavioural inhibitory control are attracting increasing attention as a factor
behind the development and maintenance of substance dependence. However, evidence …

Understanding the cognitive sequela of repeated cocaine use is a growing area of research
and is crucial to the development of cognitive models of addiction. We systematically …

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 …

Impulsive behavior is implicated in the initiation, maintenance, and relapse of drug-seeking
behaviors involved in drug addiction. Research shows that changes in impulsive behavior …

Learning can be guided by unexpected success or failure, signaled via dopaminergic
positive reward prediction error (+ RPE) and negative reward-prediction error (− RPE) …

Objective It is unclear whether deviations in brain and behavioral development, which may
underpin elevated substance use during adolescence, are predispositions for or …

Blunted reward response appears to be a trait-like marker of vulnerability for major
depressive disorder (MDD). As such, it should be present in remitted individuals; however …

Abstract Introduction Internet Gaming Disorder has been added as a research diagnosis in
section III for the DSM‐V. Previous findings from neuroscientific research indicate an …