ATN Webinar: Defining Addiction - From Devotion to Dogma
Featuring: Rebecca Lemon The full video is available at: ATN Webinar ft Rebecca Lemon Defining Addiction From Devotion to Dogma. Event description: This webinar builds on the recent ATN conversations considering paradigm shifts in the study of addiction. Specifically, I aim to support the adaptive and multiple models introduced by both Bruce Alexander and Hanna […]
ATN Webinar: The Puzzle of Addiction
Featuring: Hanna Pickard When: November 14, 2022 Full webinar now available at: ATN Webinar featuring Hanna Pickard: The Puzzle of Addiction. Please forward this to interested colleagues and friends. Event description: In a recent ATN webinar, Bruce Alexander threw down a gauntlet. He complained, quite rightly, that theories of addiction proliferate and compete, dividing the field […]
ATN Webinar: Addiction and the Brain - Knowledge, Beliefs and Ethical Considerations
Featuring: Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Syaron Basnet, & Doris Ochterbeck When: 13 June 2022 Full webinar now available at: Addiction and the Brain - Knowledge, Beliefs and Ethical Considerations Please forward this advertisement to interested colleagues and friends. Event description: This ATN webinar interrogates the consequences of brain-centric explanations of addiction and how these shape our […]
ATN Webinar: Finding the meaning of addiction - Is it in the eye of the beholder?
Featuring: Stanton Peele When: 17 May 2022 Full webinar video now available at: ATN Webinar Stanton Peele Finding the meaning of addiction Is it in the eye of the beholder? Event description: This Addiction Theory Network webinar interrogates ways in which addictive beliefs and behaviour are inextricably connected to individual and cultural meanings, especially with regards […]
Chapter 06 Is addiction a brain disease? The incentive-sensitization view
Abstract Where does normal brain function end and pathology begin? The line can be hard to discern. That difficulty makes disease a tricky word for talking about any psychological condition. Yet disease still may be an appropriate label for psychological conditions that have extreme features with deleterious consequences. A number of voices have recently argued […]
Chapter 01 Introduction to Section 1
Abstract Section I of the book comprises six chapters, four of which are reprinted from peer-reviewed journals because these are important works that characterize the BDMA and the neuroscientific basis of addiction. Chapters 2 and 3 are written by, respectively, the former and current directors of NIDA and each outlines a clear articulation of the […]
Webinar: Retiring the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. And Then What?
ATN Webinar: Retiring the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. And Then What? Featuring: Bruce K. Alexander When? 19/04/2022; 1600-1730 Edinburgh; 0800 Vancouver; 1100 New York; 1700 Paris Update: Full webinar video now available at ATN Webinar featuring Bruce Alexander Retiring the Brain Disease Model of Addiction BDMA And Then The free event will be held via […]