Addiction: Pulling at the Neural Threads of Social Behaviors

Nora D. Volkow; Ruben D. Baler; Rita Z. Goldstein

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.027

Addiction: Pulling at the Neural Threads of Social Behaviors

Nora D. Volkow
, Ruben D. Baler
, Rita Z. Goldstein

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Abstract

Addiction coopts the brain's neuronal circuits necessary for insight, reward, motivation, and social behaviors. This functional overlap results in addicted individuals making poor choices despite awareness of the negative consequences; it explains why previously rewarding life situations and the threat of judicial punishment cannot stop drug taking and why a medical rather than a criminal approach is more effective in curtailing addiction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	599-602
Number of pages	4
Journal	Neuron
Volume	69
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.027
State	Published - 24 Feb 2011
Externally published	Yes

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