Reward system | Addiction Treatment Strategies

New Findings On How Rats Make Choices May Provide Insights
Into Addiction And Impulse-driven Behavior Researchers
have shed new light on dopamine’s role in the
brain’s reward system, which could provide insight
into impulse control problems associated with…

New Leads on the Causes of Alcoholism ScienceDaily — In
order to develop new medications for alcoholism,
researchers need to understand how alcohol acts on the
brain’s reward system. A previously unknown
mechanism has been shown to block the rewarding effects of
alcohol on the…

Learn to fight procrastination when kicking an addiction.
Abusing substances and procrastinating on corrective
actions is a recipe for disaster. When these thieves of
life and time combine, you can feel yourself spiraling
down.Let’s start with whether you need to hit bottom
before…

Personality Traits Can Predict From Childhood
Predisposition To Alcohol Abuse 20 Jan 2011 The
personality traits of a child under 12 years can predict
his or her predisposition to alcohol abuse in later years,
as evidenced the studies carried out by researchers from
the Personality and…

Hospitalizations from prescription drugs increase 98% in
5 years! Below is an article on prescription abuse and
misuse in the U.S.  The numbers are startling.  If we want
to begin to cut health care costs we need to reign in the
pharmaceutical industry and their aggressive…

Researchers have shed new light on dopamine’s role
in the brain’s reward system, which could provide
insight into impulse control problems associated with
addiction and a number of psychiatric disorders.  A joint
study by the University of Michigan and University of
Washington…