Mindfulness training targets neurocognitive mechanisms of addiction at the attention-appraisal-emotion interface

Prominent neuroscience models suggest that addictive behavior occurs when environmental stressors and drug-relevant cues activate a cycle of cognitive, affective, and psychophysiological mechanisms, including dysregulated interactions between bottom-up and top-down neural processes, that compel the...

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Main Authors: Eric eGarland, Brett eFroeliger, Matthew eHoward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00173/full