Abstract Purpose of Review Here, we systematically review all available evidence on the triadic relationship between positive and negative urgency, craving, severity symptoms candidate behavioral addictions. Recent Findings Current theoretical models attribute a central importance to craving in chronification prognosis addictions other problematic non-substance-related patterns. Craving, turn, ...

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT EFFECTS ON IMPULSIVITY AND SUBJECTIVE CRAVING IN CAFFEINATED ALCOHOL USERS Amy L. Stamates Old Dominion University, 2015 Director: Dr. Cathy Lau-Barraco Caffeinated alcohol beverages (CAB) (e.g., vodka and Red Bull, rum and Coke) have become increasingly popular among young drinkers. Research indicates that consumption of caffeinated alcohol is associated with higher repor...

Food cravings are a common, yet poorly understood phenomenon. Past attempts to explain them with a focus purely on physiological mechanisms have been unsuccessful. Four studies examine the hypothesis that food cravings are best conceptualized in terms of socio-cultural and psychological factors, looking specifically at the example of perimenstrual chocolate craving. Study 1 demonstrates that th...

OBJECTIVE Drug Craving could be defined as a subjective motivational state associated with a strong desire to consume drugs. Craving is a subjective phenomenon; therefore, self-report (subjective) craving measures are usually referenced. Two well-known questionnaires for measurement of drug craving severity are Desire for Drug Questionnaire or DDQ (for instant craving) and Obsessive Compulsive ...

one of the most important factors affecting relapse of addiction is craving beliefs of substance use. the goal of the present study was assessment of the effectiveness of coping skills education program to reduce craving beliefs among opium addicts.in a randomized controlled trial, during september 2011 to august 2012, 70 opium addicted men referred to the behavioral disorders and substance abu...

Numerous studies utilizing drug self-administration have shown the importance of conditioned cues in maintaining and reinstating addictive behaviors. However, most used simple cues that fail to replicate the complexity of cues present in human craving and addiction. We have recently shown that music can induce behavioral and neurochemical changes in rats following classical conditioning with ps...