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Addiction Medicine
Scientists at Institute of Psychiatry describe research in addiction medicine
March 9th, 2008
New research, 'Neurobiology of addiction. An integrative review,' is the subject of a report. "Evidence that psychoactive substance use disorders, bulimia nervosa, pathological gambling, and sexual addiction share an underlying biopsychological process is summarized. Definitions are offered for addiction and addictive process, the latter being the proposed designation for the underlying biopsychological process that addictive disorders are hypothesized to share," researchers in the United States report. "The addictive process is introduced as an interaction of impairments in three functional systems: motivation-reward, affect regulation, and behavioral inhibition. An...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-03-09)
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