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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.
List of contents
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 addiction5. 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 addiction9. 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: Epilogue13. Beyond substance use disorders:Behavioral addictions
About the author
Dr. Yates received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Kentucky in 2014. He is currently a Professor in Psychological Science at Northern Kentucky University. His research interests include elucidating the neurobehavioral mechanisms underlying drug addiction and studying the neural mechanisms of impulsive and risky decision-making. Dr. Yates’ research has been recognized at a national level, as he has received the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 25 B.F. Skinner Foundation New Researcher Award, the APA Division 28 Young Psychopharmacologist Award (both in 2018), and the APA Division 6 Early Career Award (2021). He has also received awards from Northern Kentucky University, including the 2019 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award and the 2020 Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award.
