Neural mechanisms of addiction: The role of reward-related learning and memory
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The progress in identifying candidate mechanisms of addiction, which is a state of compulsive drug use, is reported. The model of addiction as a usurpation of normal systems of associative memory underlying reward-related learning and behavior has helped in organizing a great deal of experimental information, while providing a compelling notion of what happens in the addicted brain.
Publication Name: Annual Review of Neuroscience
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0147-006X
Year: 2006
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The neurobiology of the self
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An increasing number of neurobiologists are exploring how the brain manages to form and maintain a sense of self. Several brain regions are found to respond differently to information relating to the self than they do to information relating to others even to very familiar others.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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