Addictions: From Pathophysiology to Treatment

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Addictions: From Pathophysiology to Treatment
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Contents
Preface
Section 1 General Considerations
	1 Drug Addictions: An Historical and Ethological Overview
	2 Animal Models of Drug Addiction
Section 2 Pathophysiology of Addictions
	3 Addictive Drugs and Synaptic Plasticity
	4 Cocaine Addiction: Changes in Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurotransmission
	5 Role of Prefrontal Cortex Dopamine and Noradrenaline Circuitry in Addiction
	6 A Molecular Mechanism of Ethanol Dependence: The Influence of the Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor Activated by N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
	7 Role of Multifunctional FADD (Fas-Associated Death Domain) Adaptor in Drug Addiction
	8 Polydrug Use in Adolescence
	9 Food Addiction, Obesity and Neuroimaging
	10 Pathways Involved in the Cardiac Adaptive Changes Observed During Morphine Withdrawal
Section 3 Addiction Treatment – Pharmacology
	11 Medication Development for the Treatment of Cocaine Addiction – Progress at Preclinical and Clinical Levels
	12 N-Acetylcysteine as a Treatment for Addiction
Section 4 Therapeutic Strategies – Behavioural, Social and Analytical Approaches
	13 Proposals for the Treatment of Users of Alcohol and Other Drugs: A Psychoanalytic Reading
	14 The Interactional Approach in the Treatment of Cocaine Addicts
	15 Research and Intervention for Drug-Addicted Mothers and Their Children: New Perspectives
	16 HCV and Drug Use – What Can Be Learned from the Failure to Control This Epidemic?