Cognition and Addiction

By: Marcus Munafo (Editor), Ian Albery (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2006

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320 Pages

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Addiction research has a long history, but it is only recently that experimental psychologists and neuroscientists have begun to investigate the cognitive aspects of addictive behaviours. This has revealed a complex inter-play of cognitive mechanisms that subserve subjective experiences associated with addiction, such as drug craving. This has led to a marked increase in interest in the potential of such research to elucidate, for example, the processes that may lead to relapse following abstinence. Although research into the relationship between cognitive processes and addictive behaviours is currently an area of substantial growth and interest, this is the first time that a book has brought together the state-of-the-art in this research. As the field matures such a monograph is timely and will serve to capture the current state of knowledge, as well as identifying directions for future research. Within the book, current research and theoretical models have been synthesised by leading authors in the field of cognition and addiction, with a particular emphasis on widely investigated substances of abuse such as alcohol, nicotine, cocaine and opiates. The individual authors, all of whom are high profile researchers of international standing, have provided a series of chapters that cover mechanisms that subserve cognitive processes in addiction and their application to specific addictive behaviours.

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The book is timely, very informative, exciting and even entertaining . The monograph captures the current state-of-the-art in this exciting and rapidly growing field of research and is tremendously helpful in gaining a comprehensive overview as well as to identify directions for future research. It is highly recommended for researchers and other academic staff, postgraduate students and everyone who works in the field of addiction. s This book is on the cutting edge of cognitive science and its relationship to addiction. It is full of research findings and provides treatment alternatives...Readers won't be disappointed. Doody's Notes

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