Imbalanced decision hierarchy in addicts emerging from drug-hijacked dopamine spiraling circuit.

Despite explicitly wanting to quit, long-term addicts find themselves powerless to resist drugs, despite knowing that drug-taking may be a harmful course of action. Such inconsistency between the explicit knowledge of negative consequences and the compulsive behavioral patterns represents a cognitiv...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Keramati, Boris Gutkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3634778?pdf=render