Cognition and Addiction

ISBN-13: 9780198569299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 320 str.

Marcus Munafo; Ian Albery

Opis

It is only recently that the cognitive aspects of addictive behaviors have begun to be investigated by experimental psychologists and neuroscientists. This is the first book to investigate the complex inter-play of cognitive mechanisms that subserve subjective experiences associated with addiction, such as drug craving, as well as relapse.

O autorze

Marcus Munafò's research interests are in the integration of multiple research perspectives to understand individual differences in smoking behaviour and, in particular, smoking cessation. This has included substantial work on smoking cessation pharmacogenetics, as well as behavioural and neuroimaging studies of smoking-related endophenotypes. He recently contributed material on the genetics of smoking behaviour and smoking cessation pharmacogenetics, with Caryn Lerman, to the forthcoming Surgeon General's Report on tobacco-related disease. In 2004 he was awarded the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Young Investigator Award, and in 2005 the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Fellowship Award. Ian P. Albery is Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Member of the Division of Health Psychology of the BPS and a Chartered Health Psychologist. He previously held posts at the University of Kent at Canterbury, the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry and the University of Reading. He is the author of numerous chapters and academic papers in aspects of cognition and addiction and also runs a very successful MSc in Addiction Psychology and Counselling at London South Bank University.