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Background: Research has shown that personality traits can have an important role in the development and maintenance of behavioral addictions. However, relationship between dark (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, sadism, spitefulness) ‘study addiction’ yet to be investigated.Objectives: The purpose present study was examine associations with addiction among total sample, males, f...

objectives the aim of this study was to model, assay, and plan a model to reveal the structural relations between psychological factors, including parenting, novelty seeking, problem behavior, and coping strategies, for addiction potential. patients and methods structural equation modeling (sem) was used to evaluate the relationship between parenting styles and addiction potential with mediator...

Behavioral stimulants have widespread potential application in the treatment of affective disorders, disorders of vigilance, and disorders of sleep. Most behavioral stimulants, however, must be used with extreme caution because of undesirable side effects that include stereotypy, anxiolytic effects, and addiction. Adrafinil, developed in France by Louis Lafon Laboratories, is a novel pharmaceut...

BACKGROUND Excess weight is a major threat to public health. An addiction-like tendency toward certain foods may contribute to overeating. OBJECTIVE We aimed to describe the prevalence and associated characteristics in relation to a food-addiction scale in middle-aged and older women. DESIGN We examined the prevalence and associated characteristics of a food-addiction scale measure in a cro...

Behavioral addictions are a specific group of mental and behavioral disorders. At present, this group of disorders is not present in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) or ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1994). However, in spite of this, the Substance-related disorders group of the DSM-IV has proposed revisions to this that opens up the possibility for non-substance disorders to ...

It has been known that methadone maintenance treatment is the standard treatment of choice for pregnant opiate addicts. However, there are few data on newborn outcomes especially in the cross talk with other addictive agents. The present study was to investigate the effect of prenatal exposure to methadone on methamphetamine (METH)-induced behavioral sensitization as an indicator of drug addict...

BACKGROUND Several behaviors, besides psychoactive substance ingestion, produce short-term reward that may engender persistent behavior, despite knowledge of adverse consequences, i.e., diminished control over the behavior. These disorders have historically been conceptualized in several ways. One view posits these disorders as lying along an impulsive-compulsive spectrum, with some classified ...

A ddictions to a variety of substances both licit (e.g., alcohol, nicotine) and illicit (e.g., marijuana, cocaine) are a pervasive national and international social and economic challenge, accounting for as much as $600 billion annually in cumulative losses in the United States (cited in Nicholson and Ator 2011). The treatment of addictions and addictive behaviors is thus an important public he...

The use of animal models for substance disorder (SUD) has made an important contribution in the investigation behavioral and molecular mechanisms underlying abuse addiction. Here, we review a novel comprehensive platform to characterize addiction-like traits rodents using fully automated learning system, IntelliCage. This system simultaneously captures basic navigation, reward preference, avers...