Neuronal mechanisms underlying addiction have been attracting attention in neurobiology, economics, neuropsychiatry, and neuroeconomics. This paper proposes a possible link between economic theory of addiction [2] and neurobiological theory of bidirectional synaptic plasticity [5] based on recent findings in neuroeconomics and neurobiology of addiction. Furthermore, it is suggested that several...

BACKGROUND There is emerging evidence that the psychobiological mechanisms underlying behavioral addictions such as internet and videogame addiction resemble those of addiction for substances of abuse. OBJECTIVES Review of brain imaging, treatment and genetic studies on videogame and internet addiction. METHODS Literature search of published articles between 2009 and 2013 in Pubmed using "i...

BACKGROUND Risky sexual behavior (RSB), addiction, and aggression are three important personal and social factors which influence each other. OBJECTIVE To overview the potential relationship among RSB, addiction, and aggression to conduct an interactive model for the pathology and management of human behavior. METHODS This review article was carried out by searching studies in PubMed, Medli...

Epidemiological studies have revealed striking associations between several distinct behavioral/personality traits and drug addiction, with a large emphasis on the sensation-seeking trait and the associated impulsive dimension of personality. However, in human studies, it is difficult to identify whether personality/behavioral traits actually contribute to increased vulnerability to drug addict...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Smartphone addiction, its association with smartphone use, and its predictors have not yet been studied in a European sample. This study investigated indicators of smartphone use, smartphone addiction, and their associations with demographic and health behaviour-related variables in young people. METHODS A convenience sample of 1,519 students from 127 Swiss vocational scho...

CONTEXT Recent years have produced many articles about women's addiction and its risk factors and the consequences of substance use and misuse in the emotional, social, psychological, and economic domains of life. Family vulnerabilities are one of the most important variables contributing to addiction among women. Thus, the purpose of this article is to investigate areas of family life that lea...

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...

background: drug addiction is known as a health, therapeutic, and social problem of the recent century. recent studies have shown that young people have little resistance against drugs, but they have the ability to understand and accept the risk of using drugs. this study has been done among students to determine the preventive behaviors of drug addiction based on the health belief model. metho...