Neuropsychology of Addiction: Beyond the Substance

This is a recording of the Centre for Primary Health & Social Care seminar on 'Neuropsychology of Addiction: Beyond the Substance'
14 July 2021
Many neurobiological theories of addiction have identified that drug addiction is subject to learning and the changing in cognitive processing. Many of these theories take their position from animal studies which demonstrate how important environments are in the development, maintenance and relapse of substance use.
From this perspective, we have looked at how information processing that is specific to the drug that is being primarily used is altered as a consequence of repetitive consumption.
This presentation focused on what we have found and where we want to go next.
Speaker: Professor Chris Chandler, Head of Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Professions, London Metropolitan University
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[@elplebe1762]

Since frequencies like beta, thelta, delta etc affect the brain. What frequency would have effects on the region of the brain that deals with addictions?

[@thistree9028]

Thank you! Fascinating work and discussion. One thing that wasn’t mentioned is how traumatic experience, especially if chronic in childhood, can change the brain and how this can possibly lead to later in life addictions. How does abuse change the physiology of the brain to pre dispose? Are there similarities in brain function? Etc..Would be hard to do a study on though. Where to get a control group of traumatized kids?.. I’d think ethics would be an issue..

[@sarvothamanbhimasenarao2263]

From the diagram provided, Schizophrenia is on one side and the addiction ( schizoidal masturbation? ) is on the other side. Does it correlate with the fact that Schizoid disorder is a spectrum disorder?

[@___unknown_x_]

Nixe...

[@scarletgray1]

Listen to me. I’m so sick of people that only know about addiction from text books. People wouldn’t even go down the road of drugs and secretive actions if they didn’t feel so disconnected and so I hopeful of there future as young people. And 99% of people with addictions suffered trauma that was sexual paedophilia. And no one is talking about the fact that community makes it impossible to get clean and get good jobs etc cos ur forever stopped by criminal history.