Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Concepts of Addiction
- Part II Clinical and Research Methods in the Addictions
- Part III Levels of Analysis and Etiology
- 10 Neurobiology of Substance Addictions
- 11 Neurobiological Foundations of Behavioral Addictions
- 12 Multiple Memory Systems, Addiction, and Health Habits: New Routes for Translational Science
- 13 The Role of Culture in Addiction
- 14 The Physical and Social Environments as Determinants of Health: Implications for Substance and Behavioral Addictions
- Part IV Prevention and Treatment
- Part V Ongoing and Future Research Directions
- Index
- References
11 - Neurobiological Foundations of Behavioral Addictions
from Part III - Levels of Analysis and Etiology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Concepts of Addiction
- Part II Clinical and Research Methods in the Addictions
- Part III Levels of Analysis and Etiology
- 10 Neurobiology of Substance Addictions
- 11 Neurobiological Foundations of Behavioral Addictions
- 12 Multiple Memory Systems, Addiction, and Health Habits: New Routes for Translational Science
- 13 The Role of Culture in Addiction
- 14 The Physical and Social Environments as Determinants of Health: Implications for Substance and Behavioral Addictions
- Part IV Prevention and Treatment
- Part V Ongoing and Future Research Directions
- Index
- References
Summary
In the past few decades, the notion of what constitutes addictive behavior has expanded to include nonsubstance-related behaviors. The World Health Organization recently recognized gambling and gaming disorders as addictive behaviors, and there has been support in the field to include compulsive sexual behaviors as well. Considerable support for reclassification of these behaviors from impulse-control disorders to addictive behaviors has come from studies showing neurobiological similarities with substance use disorders. Behavioral addictions have been found to have similar neurobiological correlates with each other and with substance use disorders on multiple levels of analysis such as alterations in availability of receptors in mesolimbic pathways, the amplitudes of cue-induced late potentials, and frontostriatal activity during reward-based tasks. The implicated neuropathological features support the inclusion of nonsubstance behaviors as addictive behaviors.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions , pp. 136 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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