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Determinants of Addiction,

Edition 1 Neurobiological, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sociocultural Factors

Editors: By Justin R. Yates

Publication Date: 12 Dec 2022

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Why can two people use a drug and one person becomes addicted while the other does not? Determinants of Addiction: Neurobiological, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sociocultural Factors unravels the complexities underlying addiction to understand how individual factors at the genetic, cellular, anatomical, cognitive–behavioral, and sociocultural level can influence susceptibility to substance use disorders. The first section reviews the neurobiological determinants of addiction and examines how drugs hijack the reward pathway and alter numerous neurotransmitter systems such as dopamine. The second section covers the behavioral–cognitive determinants of addiction such a conditioning, memory processes, and decision-making. The final section examines individual differences in addiction vulnerability, with a focus on personality factors, sociocultural factors, sex/gender, and stress. The book references commonly used drugs such as nicotine, ethanol (alcohol), opioids, and cocaine.

Key Features

Explores differentiating factors that influence why people develop a substance use disorder
Introduces the cellular and anatomical pathways of addiction
Identifies genes implicated in substance use disorders
Reviews role of conditioning in the development of substance use disorders
Includes personality, sex/gender and sociocultural factors in addiction
Discusses the influence of peers and stress on addiction process

About the author

By Justin R. Yates, Associate Professor, Psychological Science, Northern Kentucky University, USA

I: Prologue
1. Introduction to addiction: Substance use disorders

II: Neurobiological mechanisms of addiction
2. Pharmacological actions of commonly used drugs
3. Neuroanatomical and neurochemical substrates of addiction
4. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of addiction

III: Behavioral and cognitive mechanisms of addiction
5. Learning mechanisms of addiction: operant conditioning
6. Learning mechanisms of addiction: Pavlovian conditioning
7. Attentional and memory processes underlying addiction
8. Maladaptive decision making and addiction

IV: Individual and sociocultural factors linked to addiction
9. Individual differences in addiction: focus on personality traits
10. Social and sociocultural factors associated with addiction
11. Stress and addiction
12. Gender and sex differences in addiction

V: Epilogue
13. Beyond substance use disorders:Behavioral addictions

Book Reviews

"The textbook by Yates presents a nice arrangement and presentation of the different levels of analysis used to define the important field of addiction, including biological, psychological and sociological views. Each chapter is a self-contained contribution on a different topic, each with an introductory thought, learning objectives and a self-test of progress. Students will like this organization. In addition, faculty will like the scholarly coverage of each topic that contains an extraordinary number of classic and recent citations. This is excellent contribution that will meet the need of courses offered in psychology, neuroscience and health science."— Dr. Michael T. Bardo, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky

"One of the most comprehensive textbooks available for understanding drug-seeking, drug-taking, and substance use disorders. What we know at several levels – molecular, neural, behavioral, sociocultural – is concisely summarized in ways that students will find approachable and compelling.In Yates’ text, students will find answers to their common questions (e.g., why are some people more likely to misuse drugs than others) and will find new questions to motivate their continued search for the determinants of human addiction."— Gregory J. Madden, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Utah State University

ISBN: 9780323905787

Page Count: 598

Illustrations : 35 illustrations (10 in full color)

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