Addictive behavior includes substance use disorders as well as behavioral addictions such as gambling and gaming disorder and other conditions such as addictive porn use or addictive social networks use.
These disorders involve compulsive behavior, craving, relapse and problems. Previous studies suggested that they share the identical brain mechanism: the reward or hedonic brain system, the project of the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens, through dopamine transmissions, despite the other neural substrates modulating the reward and reinforcement process.
Recent studies suggest that stress is crucial in modulating the reward or hedonic brain systems involved in addictive disorders. How the factor of stress intensifies changes the addictive behavior remains an interesting issue. The research topic includes the critical point for the relationship between stress and addictive disorders for animals and human models. Moreover, the topic is to bring leading research on multidisciplinary frontier viewpoints upon novelty insights into both basic and clinical issues underlying recent advances in stress and addictive disorders.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- How does stress change the reward systems at behavioral, neural, and molecular levels?
- How does stress modulate addictive behaviors in animal and human models?
- What is the relationship between stress-related mental illness and addictive behavior underlying the reward systems in the brain?
- How do apply biological approaches to examine stress mechanisms that modulate addictive symptoms?
- How do apply optogenetic and chemogenetic approaches modulate stress and thereby change addictive behaviors?
Addictive behavior includes substance use disorders as well as behavioral addictions such as gambling and gaming disorder and other conditions such as addictive porn use or addictive social networks use.
These disorders involve compulsive behavior, craving, relapse and problems. Previous studies suggested that they share the identical brain mechanism: the reward or hedonic brain system, the project of the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens, through dopamine transmissions, despite the other neural substrates modulating the reward and reinforcement process.
Recent studies suggest that stress is crucial in modulating the reward or hedonic brain systems involved in addictive disorders. How the factor of stress intensifies changes the addictive behavior remains an interesting issue. The research topic includes the critical point for the relationship between stress and addictive disorders for animals and human models. Moreover, the topic is to bring leading research on multidisciplinary frontier viewpoints upon novelty insights into both basic and clinical issues underlying recent advances in stress and addictive disorders.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- How does stress change the reward systems at behavioral, neural, and molecular levels?
- How does stress modulate addictive behaviors in animal and human models?
- What is the relationship between stress-related mental illness and addictive behavior underlying the reward systems in the brain?
- How do apply biological approaches to examine stress mechanisms that modulate addictive symptoms?
- How do apply optogenetic and chemogenetic approaches modulate stress and thereby change addictive behaviors?