Imaging the Addicted Brain

This book reviews the effects of addiction to a broad range of substances and behaviors, including food, gambling, tobacco, and commonly used psychogenic agents on the brain, using the rapidly growing field of medical imaging to bring this relatively new technology to a wider audience

Imaging the Addicted Brain, the latest volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series will appeal to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research. This volume focusses on the imaging of the brain addicted to food, gambling, tobacco, and opiates.