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- Most prominent are the disruptions of an individual's ability to prioritize behaviors that result in long-term benefit over those that provide short-term rewards and the increasing difficulty exerting control over these behaviors even when associated with catastrophic consequences.
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Repression is the general term that is used to describe the tendency to inhibit the experience and the expression of negative feelings or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened (‘repressive coping style’).
Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression. The existence of repression has remained controversial for more than a century, in part because of its strong coupling with trauma and...
- Michael C. Anderson
- 2006
Fundamental to cognitive models of addiction is the gradual strengthening of implicitly developed urge-related responding that progressively overwhelms effortful cognitive processes aimed at self-control. Automatic processes can also disrupt substance use-related metacognitive self-awareness.
Our collaborative research program involves systematically testing and refining a model of brain mechanisms of change for empirically validated therapies (cognitive behavioral therapy, contingency management) across a range of addictive disorders.
- Tammy Chung, Antonio Noronha, Kathleen M. Carroll, Marc N. Potenza, Kent Hutchison, Vince D. Calhoun...
- 10.1007/s40429-016-0113-z
- 2016
- 2016/09
Oct 19, 2020 · We will review the theories of addiction that address negative-reinforcement views of drug use (i.e., taking opioids to alleviate distress or withdrawal), positive-reinforcement views (i.e., taking drugs for euphoria), habit views (i.e., growth of automatic drug-use routines), incentive-sensitization views (i.e., growth of excessive “wanting ...
Mar 30, 2020 · Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Compulsion is a key symptom of drug addiction. In this Review, Lüscher, Robbins and Everitt integrate the neural and psychological mechanisms that underlie the...
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Apr 25, 2018 · A promising strategy explores the use of pharmacotherapies that target endophenotypes associated with addiction—for example, using cognitive enhancers to improve impulse control, planning, and decision making (85–87), and using medications to reduce stress reactivity and dysphoria to prevent relapses (88, 89). As discussed above, various ...
