LA NEUROBIOLOGIA
DELL’ABUSO DI SOSTANZE
Brain Mind & Life-Italia, seguendo
un’iniziativa di BM&L-International, ha promosso uno studio delle nuove
acquisizioni in materia di abuso di sostanze psicotrope, focalizzando
l’interesse principalmente sui dati di neurobiologia molecolare e cellulare.
Prendendo le mosse dalla raccolta monografica di articoli su questo argomento
promossa dal National Institute on Drug Abuse e dal National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Neurobiology
of Addiction. Nature Neuroscience 8, 1427-1489, 2005), i soci di BM&L-Italia hanno ripartito la prima
presentazione degli argomenti in dodici relazioni corrispondenti ai titoli
della raccolta stessa:
1. Neurobiology of addiction.
2. The neuroscience of addiction.
3. Neurobiology of addiction: treatment
and public policy ramifications.
4. The role of neuroadaptations in
relapse to drug seeking.
5. How do we determine which
drug-induced neuroplastic changes are important?
6. Plasticity of reward neurocircuitry
and the 'dark side' of drug addiction.
7. Is there a common molecular pathway
for addiction?
8. Genetic influences on impulsivity,
risk taking, stress responsivity and vulnerability to drug abuse and addiction.
9. Decision making, impulse control and
loss of willpower to resist drugs: a neurocognitive perspective.
10. Nicotine addiction and comorbidity
with alcohol abuse and mental illness.
11. Laboratory models of alcoholism:
treatment target identification and insight into mechanisms.
12. Neural systems of reinforcement for
drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion.
Alla
presentazione, ripartita in una sessione mattutina ed una pomeridiana, č
seguito un interessante dibattito.