Addiction

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Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library series, this pocketbook is a clear and comprehensive overview of the brain science underpinning addiction and how this helps explain the current and future therapeutics for the range of addictions, using full colour images to enhance understanding. Addiction focuses on the nature of addiction as a brain disorder that includes a range of different behavioural traits such as impulsivity and reward dependence, and discusses the critical role ofkinetic and phar…

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Title Statements

Full title :Addiction / David J. Nutt, Liam J. Nestor.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 90 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191508868, 0191508861, 9780191508851, 0191508853, 9780191765735, 0191765732
oclc:ocn872699851
LC Classification:RC564
Dewey Decimal:362.29

What is addiction? -- Burden of addiction -- Key elements of addiction -- Neurobiological processes in addiction -- Drug pharmacokinetics and abuse liability -- Pharmocodynamics of addictive substances -- The dopamine system and addiction -- The GABA system and addiction -- The glutamate system and addiction -- The opioid system and addiction.

Subjects

Drug addiction -- Physiological aspects HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine MEDICAL -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine Neuropsychopharmacologie Neuropsychopharmacology Polytoxicomanie -- Aspect physiologique Substance abuse -- Physiological aspects Substance-Related Disorders -- physiopa… Toxicomanie -- Aspect physiologique