Mindfulness training applied to addiction therapy: insights into the neural mechanisms of positive behavioral change
Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics July 1, 2016 Eric L Garland, Matthew O. Howard, Sarah E. Priddy et al. 12 citations
Abstract: Dual-process models from neuroscience suggest that addiction is driven by dysregulated interactions between bottom-up neural processes underpinning reward learning and top-down neural functions subserving executive function. Over time, drug use causes atrophy in prefrontally mediated cognitive control networks and hijacks striatal circuits devoted to processing natural rewards in...