Provides neurobiological theories on how addiction works
Explains addiction cycle stages of binge, withdrawal and anticipation
Reviews the role of dopamine and the frontal cortex in addiction
Discusses the neurocircuitry of reward and stress
Includes animal models and neuroadaptational views on addiction
Dr. Koob is an internationally-recognized expert on alcohol and stress, and the neurobiology of alcohol and drug addiction. He is the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), overseeing a broad portfolio of alcohol research ranging from basic science to epidemiology, diagnostics, prevention, and treatment. Dr. Koob earned his doctorate in Behavioral Physiology from Johns Hopkins University in 1972. Prior to taking the helm at NIAAA, he served as Professor and Chair of the Scripps' Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders and Director of the Alcohol Research Center at the Scripps Research Institute. Early in his career, Dr. Koob conducted research in the Department of Neurophysiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and in the Arthur Vining Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology and the MRC Neuropharmacology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Koob began his career investigating the neurobiology of emotion, particularly how the brain processes reward and stress. He subsequently applied basic research on emotions, including on the anatomical and neurochemical underpinnings of emotional function, to alcohol and drug addiction, significantly broadening knowledge of the adaptations within reward and stress neurocircuits that lead to addiction. Dr. Koob has authored more than 650 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is a co-author of The Neurobiology of Addiction.
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Dr. Koob is an internationally-recognized expert on alcohol and stress, and the neurobiology of alcohol and drug addiction. He is the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), overseeing a broad portfolio of alcohol research ranging from basic science to epidemiology, diagnostics, prevention, and treatment. Dr. Koob earned his doctorate in Behavioral Physiology from Johns Hopkins University in 1972. Prior to taking the helm at NIAAA, he served as Professor and Chair of the Scripps' Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders and Director of the Alcohol Research Center at the Scripps Research Institute. Early in his career, Dr. Koob conducted research in the Department of Neurophysiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and in the Arthur Vining Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology and the MRC Neuropharmacology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Koob began his career investigating the neurobiology of emotion, particularly how the brain processes reward and stress. He subsequently applied basic research on emotions, including on the anatomical and neurochemical underpinnings of emotional function, to alcohol and drug addiction, significantly broadening knowledge of the adaptations within reward and stress neurocircuits that lead to addiction. Dr. Koob has authored more than 650 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is a co-author of The Neurobiology of Addiction.
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Introduction to Addiction, Volume One in the series, introduces the reader to the study of neurobiology of addiction by clearly defining addiction and its neuroadaptational views. This volume includes thorough descriptions of the various animal models applicable to the study of addiction, including Animal Models of the Binge-Intoxication Stage of the Addiction Cycle and Animal Models of Vulnerability to Addiction. The book's authors also include a section on numerous neurobiological theories that aid in the understanding of addiction, including dopamine, prefrontal cortex and relapse.
- Provides neurobiological theories on how addiction works
- Explains addiction cycle stages of binge, withdrawal and anticipation
- Reviews the role of dopamine and the frontal cortex in addiction
- Discusses the neurocircuitry of reward and stress
- Includes animal models and neuroadaptational views on addiction
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WHAT IS ADDICTION? 1. Definitions of Addiction 2. Neuroadaptational Views of Addiction 3. Neuroadaptational Summary 4. Summary
ANIMAL MODELS 5. Definitions and Validation of Animal Models 6. Animal Models of the Binge-Intoxication Stage of the Addiction Cycle 7. Animal Models of the Withdrawal/Negative Affect Stage of the Addiction Cycle 8. Animal Models of the Preoccupation/Anticipation Stage of the Addiction Cycle 9. Animal Models of Vulnerability to Addiction 10. Summary
NEUROBIOLOGICAL THEORIES 11. Neurocircuitry Hypotheses of Addiction-Dopamine 12. Neurocircuitry Theories of Addiction-Frontal Cortex 13. Neurocircuitry Theories of Addiction-Relapse 14. Neurocircuitry Theories of Addiction-Reward and Stress 15. Cellular Hypotheses of Addiction 16. Molecular Hypotheses of Addiction 17. Synthesis: Common Elements of Most Neurobiological Models of Addiction