Cognition and Addiction

by Marcus Munafo

Addiction research has a long history but it is only recently that experimental psychologists and neuroscientists have begun to investigate the cognitive aspects of addictive behaviours This has revealed a complex inter play of cognitive mechanisms that subserve subjective experiences associated with addiction such as drug craving This has led to a marked increase in interest in the potential of such research to elucidate for example the processes that may lead to relapse following abstinence Although research into the relationship between cognitive processes and addictive behaviours is currently an area of substantial growth and interest this book has brought together the state of the art in this research As the field matures such a monograph is timely and will serve to capture the current state of knowledge as well as identifying directions for future research Within the book current research and theoretical models have been synthesised by leading authors in the field of cognition and addiction with a particular emphasis on widely investigated substances of abuse such as alcohol nicotine cocaine and opiates The individual authors all of whom are high profile researchers of international standing have provided a series of chapters that cover mechanisms that underpin cognitive processes in addiction and their application to specific addictive behaviours After an engagement gone terribly awry American interior designer Eva Anderson has finally met the man of her dreams Handsome charming Owen Martin is one of London s most talented musicians and he s head over heels for Eva to boot They fall in love get married and go on a fabulous honeymoon to Paris But Owen forgot to tell Eva one little detail he s actually a top secret British spy oh and there are more than a few women in his past Unfortunately for Eva one of those women is the beloved younger sister of Middle Eastern terrorist Hassam Khalil Hassam wants nothing more than revenge on

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First published December 7, 2006