Posts which represent support for the BDMA.

BDMA Book Abstracts
Chapter 07 Addiction is a brain disease (but does it matter?)

Abstract This chapter offers a perspective on the significance and the truth of the proposition that substance addiction is a brain disease, based on the conception of substance addiction offered in the foundational text of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is proposed that substance addiction is primarily characterized by a sensitization to drugs whereby their ingestion causes […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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