It gives me a great deal of pleasure to introduce this critical review of the neuroimaging science of addictive disorders written by E. Laura Wright, CRNA, PhD, MNA. Wright has recently joined the Health and Wellness Committee’s Peer Assistance Advisors Committee. Her doctoral research focused on those resilience factors that were part of the shared experience of CRNAs in long-term recovery fro...

The economic impact of the consumption of drugs has become an important issue in the Spanish Budget. In fact, it represented over 23% of the Spanish Health Budget in 2007. In particular, the prescription of anxiolytics (drugs with potential addictive behavior) was 16% of the total pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain in 2007. The reasons that explain the consumption of anxiolytics could be: the ...

Addictive diseases, including addiction to heroin, prescription opioids, or cocaine, pose massive personal and public health costs. Addictions are chronic relapsing diseases of the brain caused by drug-induced direct effects and persisting neuroadaptations at the epigenetic, mRNA, neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, or protein levels. These neuroadaptations, which can be specific to drug type, and ...

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by the compulsive desire to use drugs and a loss of control over consumption. Cannabidiol (CBD), the second most abundant component of cannabis, is thought to modulate various neuronal circuits involved in drug addiction. The goal of this systematic review is to summarize the available preclinical and clinical data on the impact o...

While IT is generally found to augment productivity, recent evidence indicates that excessive and compulsive usage of IT is likely to have some adverse consequences. Given the prevalence of IT addiction, it becomes increasingly important to study this phenomenon. We seek to investigate the adverse effects of IT addiction, especially on productivity, in work settings. We propose a model showing ...

Abstract Purpose of Review There are ongoing debates about specific features compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) relating to classification and diagnoses. We aim address current discussions potential subtypes CSBD, the aspect compulsivity in moral incongruence CSBD. Recent Findings CSBD includes multiple behaviors that might be related psychological processes. Problematic pornography use...

CNS Spectrums / Volume 19 / Issue 03 / June 2014, pp 215 224 DOI: 10.1017/S1092852914000091, Published online: 19 March 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1092852914000091 How to cite this article: W. Miles Cox, Javad S. Fadardi, James M. Intriligator and Eric Klinger (2014). Attentional bias modication for addictive behaviors: clinical implications . CNS Spectr...

The desire to consume breads, pastries, cakes, and pizza can at times seem overpowering, and indeed, some studies have compared sugar cravings with the need to consume addictive drugs. In one study, animals with repeated, intermittent access to a sugar solution developed behaviors and brain changes similar to the effects of some drugs of abuse. This study served as the first animal model of foo...

This commentary considers a recent article on how the proliferating use of atheoretical, confirmatory and diagnosis driven research approaches is resulting in the over-identification of behavioral addictions. In response to the original article, I reflect on the timeliness and value of its observations and expand on a central point it raises: The importance of thinking beyond diagnostic framewo...

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by the compulsive desire to use drugs and a loss of control over consumption. Cannabidiol (CBD), the second most abundant component of cannabis, is thought to modulate various neuronal circuits involved in drug addiction. The goal of this systematic review is to summarize the available preclinical and clinical data on the impact o...