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Cocaine Addiction as a Homeostatic Reinforcement Learning Disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Drug addiction implicates both reward learning and homeostatic regulation mechanisms of the brain. This has stimulated 2 partially successful theoretical perspectives on addiction.
Durand, A.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

I don’t like it because it eats sprouts: Conditioning preferences in children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Although little is known about how preferences develop in childhood, work in adults suggests that evaluative responses to stimuli can be acquired through classical conditioning.
Andy P. Field   +41 more
core   +1 more source

Drug addiction as a physical disease:The role of physical dependence and other chronic drug-induced neurophysiological changes in compulsive drug self-administration [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Physical-dependence-based theories of addiction regard compulsive drug taking as the behavioral manifestation of a desperate need to relieve aversive autonomic withdrawal symptoms.
Lyvers, Michael
core   +1 more source

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Relationship Between the Fear Response and Chronic Stress

open access: yesChronic Stress, 2017
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling psychiatric condition that can develop following a physical, psychological, or sexual trauma. Despite the growing body of literature examining the psychological and biological factors involved in PTSD ...
Lisa Y Maeng, Mohammed R Milad
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancement of psychosocial treatment with D-cycloserine: models, moderators, and future directions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Advances in the understanding of the neurobiology of fear extinction have resulted in the development of d-cycloserine (DCS), a partial glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate agonist, as an augmentation strategy for exposure treatment.
de Kleine, Rianne A.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Physiological Consequences of Repeated Exposures to Conditioned Fear

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2012
Activation of the stress response evokes a cascade of physiological reactions that may be detrimental when repeated or chronic, and when triggered after exposure to psychological/emotional stressors.
Robert S. Thompson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

D-cycloserine augmentation of exposure-based cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and posttraumatic stress disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Importance: Whether and under which conditions D-cycloserine (DCS) augments the effects of exposure-based cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and posttraumatic stress disorders is unclear.
Altemus, Margaret   +56 more
core   +1 more source

MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – One step further toward a patient-centered treatment pathway

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction PTSD is a chronic, debilitating condition with limited treatment efficacy. Accessing traumatic memories often leads to overwhelming distress, impacting treatment process.
S. Pratas Penedos   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stress-Induced Reinstatement of Drug Seeking: 20 Years of Progress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In human addicts, drug relapse and craving are often provoked by stress. Since 1995, this clinical scenario has been studied using a rat model of stress-induced reinstatement of drug seeking.
A Cippitelli   +291 more
core   +2 more sources

Avoidance Behavioral Difference in Acquisition and Extinction of Pain-Related Fear

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Fear of movement-related pain leads to two types of avoidance behavior: excessive avoidance and pain-inhibited movement. Excessive avoidance is an absence of movement by fear, and pain-inhibited movements involve a change in motor behavior for the ...
Yuki Nishi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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