What is addiction?
By: edited by Don Ross ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ross, Don, 1962-
Publisher: MIT Press; A Bradford Book
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780262013482; 9780262513111
Subjects: Substance abuse; Compulsive behavior; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurosciences -- Social aspects
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neuroeconomics of addiction : the contribution of executive dysfunction / Warren K. Bickel and Richard Yi; title: Neurobiology of pathological gambling / Jennifer D. Bellegarde and Marc N. Potenza; title: Genetic influences on addiction : alcoholism as an exemplar / James MacKillop, John E. McGeary, and Lara A. Ray; title: Addiction as a breakdown in the machinery of decision-making / A. David Redish; title: Economic models of pathological gambling / Don Ross; title: Addiction : a latent property of the dynamics of choice / Gene M. Heyman; title: Addiction and altruism / Howard Rachlin; title: The core process in addictions and other impulses : hyperbolic discounting versus conditioning and cognitive framing / George Ainslie; title: Measuring dispositions to bundle choices / David Spurrett and Ben Murrell; title: Neural recruitment during self-control of smoking : a pilot fMRI study / John R. Monterosso ... [et al.]; title: Anticipatory processing as a transdisciplinary bridge in addiction / Mark S. Goldman ... [et al.]; title: Impulsivity and its association with treatment development for pathological gambling and substance use disorders / Nancy M. Petry; title: Addiction and the diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling / Neil Manson; title: Irrational action and addiction / Timothy Schroeder; title: Defining addiction and identifying the public interest in liberal democracies / Peter Collins.