That doesn’t mean it is easy to gain control of the behaviors involved in addiction—but it is possible, and people do it every day. The disease model of addiction also suggests to people that ...

It is important to know that recovery from addiction also relies on neuroplasticity. Changing behavior rewires the brain. What is the brain disease model of addiction? The disease model of ...

The disease destroys dopamine-producing cells ... Goldstein published what has become an influential model of addiction, called iRISA, or impaired response inhibition and salience attribution.

One motivation for moving away from the chronic brain disease model, Wiers suggests, is stigma. Studies show calling addiction a 'chronic brain disease' does reduce the degree to which addicted ...

Neurotoxic effects of substances are central to current brain disease models of addiction, wrote Pichardo and Wilson. “Substance exposure is thought to affect cortical and subcortical regions ...

A recent study by researchers at the University of Warwick and other institutions has uncovered a critical link between ...