Neural and Psychological Basis of Compulsive Drug Seeking: Implications for Treatment |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | Associative learning impacts the establishment of addictive behavior. Both pavlovian and instrumental conditioning contribute to the development of compulsive drug-seeking and this will be illustrated by experiments using rats self-administering cocaine or heroin. The initial, goal-directed actions by which animals and humans self-administer cocaine can become compulsive and habitual, driven and maintained by the presence of drug-associated cues in the environment – cues that can also precipitate relapse after abstinence.
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| Author: | Barry Everitt, Ph.D., Cambridge University |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
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| CIT File ID: | 11830 |
| CIT Live ID: | 2615 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?11830 |