Memory Systems of the Addicted Brain: The Underestimated Role of Drug-Induced Cognitive Biases in Addiction and Its Treatment

• Main Author: Vincent David (auth)
• Other Authors: Daniel Beracochea (auth), Mark E. Walton (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; alcohol; memory systems; decision-making; addiction; habit learning
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Drug addiction may be viewed as a form of learning during which strong associations linking actions to drug-seeking are expressed as persistent stimulus-response habits, thereby maintaining a vulnerability to relapse. Disrupting cue-drug memory could be an efficient strategy to reduce the strength o...