Assessment & Treatment of Addictions New Tools for Old Problems

• Other Authors: Gual, Antoni (Editor), Barrio, Pablo (Editor), Miquel, Laia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; addiction; memory; assessment; substance use disorder; internet gaming disorder; semi-structured diagnostic interview; psychometric properties; adolescents; drinking reduction; nalmefene; phase-IV trial; 6 months; observational; gambling disorder (GD); cocaine use disorder (CUD); craving; repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); Gambling-Symptoms Assessment Scale (G-SAS); dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC); alcohol dependence; transdermal sensor; attitudes; stigma; cerebellum; cannabis; implicit motor learning; motor adaptation; visuomotor rotation; cannabidiol; CBD; psychosis; schizophrenia; substance use disorders; alternative reward; cue exposure; animal and computational models; behavioral control; craving and relapse; habit formation; ALCO-VR; virtual reality; cue-exposure; alcohol use disorder; alcohol craving; anxiety; social drinkers; Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer; amygdala; alcohol; polygenic risk; high risk drinkers; treatment; assessment instruments; digital health; reward; transgenic mice; optogenetics; self-administration; cocaine; amphetamine
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Addiction in its various forms represents an enormous challenge to society. Worldwide, it has been estimated that alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs were responsible of more than 10 million deaths (Anderson et al, 2018), with a higher impact in developed countries where substance use disorders have...