Motivation and Addiction: Neuronetworks and Treatment Targets
Motivation and Addiction: Neuronetworks and Treatment Targets
Most psychiatric disorders (most notably dependence syndromes, depression, psychosis, and autism) are characterized by impaired social interaction, with many patients preferring a drug of abuse. This lecture focuses on the latest research on the neural basis of normal and impaired social interaction.
Topics covered in this lesson
- Neural networks activated in addiction, substance abuse and dependence, and passionate love
- Dopaminergic involvement
- The reward circuit
- Basic nomenclature: reward, reinforcement, self-administration, and conditioned place preference
- Which neural systems in which brain regions mediate which aspects of behavior?
- Reward vs aversion
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