Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction
- 1st Edition - January 10, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Ahmed Moustafa
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 9 7 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 9 8 0 - 3
Drug addictions are often difficult to treat. The most successful treatments begin with studying why individuals become addicted to drugs and how to change their thinking and be… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDrug addictions are often difficult to treat. The most successful treatments begin with studying why individuals become addicted to drugs and how to change their thinking and behaviour. Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction focuses on the theories that cause drug addiction, including avoidance behavior, self-medication, reward sensitization, behavioral inhibition and impulsivity. Dr. Moustafa takes this book one step further by reviewing the psychological and neural causes of relapse including the role of stress, anxiety and depression. By examining both the causes of drug addiction and relapse, this book will help clinicians create individualized treatment options for patients suffering from drug addiction.
- Identifies key factors contributing to addiction, including stress, anxiety and depression
- Reviews inhibition and impulsivity in drug use
- Assesses the cognitive underpinnings of behavioral choices in addiction
- Discusses the argument of self-medication vs. reward sensitization
- Examines the psychological causes of why patients relapse
Researchers and clinicians in psychiatry and psychology treating patients with addiction disorder
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 10, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 340
- No. of pages (eBook): 340
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128169797
- eBook ISBN: 9780128169803
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Ahmed Moustafa
Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is a Professor of Psychology and Computational Modeling at School of Psychology, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Prior to moving to Bond University, Ahmed was an associate professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at Marcs Institute for Brain, Behavior, and Development & School of Psychology, Western Sydney University. Ahmed is trained in computer science, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. His early training took place at Cairo University in mathematics and computer science. Before joining Western Sydney University as a lab director, Ahmed spent 11 years in America working on several psychology and neuroscience projects. Ahmed conducts research on computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, PTSD, depression, Alzheimer’s disease. He has published over 240 papers in high-ranking journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Nature (Parkinson’s disease), Neuron, among others. Ahmed has obtained grant funding from Australia, USA, Qatar, UAE, Turkey, and other countries. Ahmed has recently published ten books: (1) Computational models of brain and behavior; (2) Social Cognition in Psychosis, (3) computational Neuroscience Models of the Basal Ganglia, (4) Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; (5) The Nature of Depression: An updated review; (6) Big data in psychiatry and neurology; (7) Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding Biomarkers, Big Data, and Therapy. Elsevier; (8) Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; (9) Female Pioneers from Ancient Egypt and the Middle East; and (10) Mental health effects of COVID-19. In the last 10 years, Ahmed has published collaboratively with 71 colleagues, has more than 510 co-authors, from 35 institutions in 14 countries. Ahmed is now Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology, a new journal by Springer Nature.
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School of Psychology, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, AustraliaRead Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction on ScienceDirect