Stimulating the Addictive Brain
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Stimulating the Addictive Brain
In western industrialized nations approximately 25% of all deaths are caused directly or indirectly by the consumption of psychotropic substances. Substance-related addictions therefore constitute the most frequently occurring psychiatric disease category (McGinnis and Foege, 1993). The etiology of addiction due to psychoactive substances is highly multi-factorial. These factors being social an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00220