Interoceptive Basis to Craving

Awareness of one's physiology is an important component of emotion. How might these processes be related to addiction? In a recent issue of Science, Naqvi et al. demonstrated that smoking addiction is disrupted by damage to the insula cortex. This suggests that brain circuits mediating interoce...

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Autores principales: Gray, Marcus A., Critchley, Hugo D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17442239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.03.024
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Sumario:Awareness of one's physiology is an important component of emotion. How might these processes be related to addiction? In a recent issue of Science, Naqvi et al. demonstrated that smoking addiction is disrupted by damage to the insula cortex. This suggests that brain circuits mediating interoception also contribute to craving states.

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