I have spent over ten years researching the Neuroscience of Addiction. I have become a published Academic author and former PhD candidate in the process. God willing, I will be sober and in recovery 15 years this December. I now believe that Addiction, for the majority of addicted […]
In other words not being able to fully process and regulate emotion leads a stress dysregulation which can threaten recovery and lead to relapse.
Part 1 Two of the the main reasons we remain in recovery are via a trust in God and via a dramatic improvement in our ability to process and manage our emotions. We often share our negative emotions with our sponsors which often leads to resolving emotional issues […]
Although loss of control over drinking is central to anecdotal accounts of alcoholics’ impaired ability to control their drinking once they have started or to stay stopped from drinking for intended periods of time as this excellent review suggests “Impaired control, defined as “a breakdown of an […]
Originally posted on Inside The Alcoholic Brain:
In this blog we re-emphasize the need for accurate diagnosis of co-morbidity with a substance use disorder. It appears form the article cited here (1) that diagnosis is often flawed in many studies and that the so-called diagnosis of co-morbidity is…
Special notice to say that is me for now – I am taking time out. Six years of constant research has left me tired and in need of a change in my life. I am leaving behind a library of info on my blogs which I will maintain long […]
Getting beatin at the fight with addiction sucks! The American Psychiatric Association decided that enough evidence exists to include video game addiction as a diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as internet gaming addiction. APA suggests the effects (or symptoms) of video game addiction may […]
In this blogsite you will find a comprehensive worldview of what we believe addictive behavior to be in terms of altered neurobiology and in terms of cognitive-affective mechanisms such as stress and emotion dysregulation. You will also be shown how these models contribute to a comprehensive understanding of […]
Part 3 The overall emotion regulation network contains the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) ventromedial prefrontal (VM PFC) regions including the anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala and the striatum as well as the insular cortex and the hippocampus. Studies show increased activity in motor areas of the brain during emotional processing (), suggest […]
Part 2 A Brief History of Addiction as Affective Disorder Cheetham and others are not the first, however, to suggest an affect centred view of addiction. Rado in 1933, described substance use as a way of coping with excessively difficult states of emotions (3). Others have interpreted addiction […]
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