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Title

What is addiction? / edited by Don Ross ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Ross, Don, 1962-

Description

xi, 448 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics, and other fields survey the latest findings in addiction science. They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysiological, psychological, or social, or incorporates aspects of all of these; to what extent addicts are responsible for their problems, and how this affects health and regulatory policies; and whether addiction is determined by inheritance or environment or both. The chapter authors discuss the possibility of a unifying basis for different addictions (considering both substance addiction and pathological gambling), offering both neurally and neuroscientifically grounded accounts as well as discussions of the social context of addiction. There can be no definitive answer yet to the question posed by the title of this book; but these essays demonstrate an advance over the simplistic conception embedded in popular culture."--Jacket.

Subject

• Substance abuse
• Compulsive behavior
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Neurosciences > Social aspects
• Substance-Related Disorders > physiopathology
• Behavior, Addictive > physiopathology
• Behavior, Addictive > psychology
• Gambling > psychology
• Neurobiology
• Substance-Related Disorders > psychology
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Behavior, Addictive
• Compulsive Behavior

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Neuroeconomics of addiction : the contribution of executive dysfunction / Warren K. Bickel and Richard Yi -- Neurobiology of pathological gambling / Jennifer D. Bellegarde and Marc N. Potenza -- Genetic influences on addiction : alcoholism as an exemplar / James MacKillop, John E. McGeary, and Lara A. Ray -- Addiction as a breakdown in the machinery of decision making / A. David Redish -- Economic models of pathological gambling / Don Ross -- Addiction : a latent property of the dynamics of choice / Gene M. Heyman -- Addiction and altruism / Howard Rachlin -- The core process in addictions and other impulses : hyperbolic discounting versus conditioning and cognitive framing / George Ainslie -- Measuring dispositions to bundle choices / David Spurrett and Ben Murrell -- Neural recruitment during self-control of smoking : a pilot fMRI study / John R. Monterosso ... [et al.] -- Anticipatory processing as a transdisciplinary bridge in addiction / Mark S. Goldman ... [et al.] -- Impulsivity and its association with treatment development for pathological gambling and substance use disorders / Nancy M. Petry -- Medical models of addiction / Harold Kincaid and Jacqueline A. Sullivan -- Addiction and the diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling / Neil Manson -- Irrational action and addiction / Timothy Schroeder -- Defining addiction and identifying the public interest in liberal democracies / Peter Collins.

ISBN

• 9780262513111 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262513110 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780262013482 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262013487 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009014712

OCLC

318645677

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library