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NEUROBIOLOGY OF ADDICTION
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By
George Koob, Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences Department , The Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Michel Le Moal, Physiopathologie du Comportement Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Université Victor Ségalen Bordeaux 2 Bordeaux, France
Reviews
"Competent, comprehensive, and extensively referenced, the book is clearly appropriate for researchers in the field. However, what sets
it apart from other books... are the synthetic chapters, which constitute a remarkably cogent introduction to addiction, a detailed general
discussion of animal models of addiction, thoughtful descriptions of competing neurobiologic theories of addiction, and a translational
chapter in which recent findings on neuroimaging are considered and linked to the more fundamental concepts previously used to examine
the neurocircuitry of addiction."
--Peter R. Martin, Vanderbilt University Medical School, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (October 19,
2006)
"In an impressive and weighty new work, Koob and LeMoal assimilate several thousand references to provide a state-of-the-science
proclamation of this progress, while setting our sights for its crucial next phases. ...The Neurobiology of Addiction is a thought
provoking tour de force. I expect it to become an instant classic and for future editions to gauge our progress in this exciting
and compelling field."
--Trevor Robbins, Department of Experimental Psychology at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute,
University of Cambridge in NATURE NEUROSCIENCE (August 2006; Vol 9:8)
"Neurobiology of Addiction is a major achievement and
will rapidly become a must-have book on the shelves of addiction researchers... Although it includes much with which readers will disagree
and argue, there is also much to relish in Koob and Le Moal?s thought-provoking and scholarly text."
--Barry Everitt, U Cambridge in
SCIENCE (Vol 314: 6 October 2006)
"With the evidence accumulated in this volume, it is reasonable to discuss addiction as a brain disorder,
with significant implications for the directions of research, treatment, and prevention. This text provides us with the state of the
art from leading experts at a leading addiction research center. ...It is clearly the very best textbook we could have hoped for..."
--Mark S. Gold and Daniel Logan in PsycCRITIQUES: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION REVIEW OF BOOKS (November 8, 2006)
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