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Neurociencia y terapéutica actual de las adicciones

2010

Abstract

International data found that the severity of the problem epidemiological, clinical comprehensive assessments recommend to patients abusers/addicts and use of psychotropic diagnostic tools, whose efficiency makes them useful elements in certain brain pathologies. We describe the neuroanatomy-physiology of the areas involved in the production of addictive disease as a centre of management and long-term rehabilitation. It indicates the role of frontal cortical structures in human behaviour which disables alteration to the individual to assess the potential reward associated with self-medication. Emphasis is placed in the imagenological participation in the diagnosis and management of these disorders, techniques that make it over him without invading and where the identification of underlying neuro-biochemical mechanisms is crucial. It highlights the resources for better long term psychotherapeutic rehabilitation that joins the utility-educational information to patients and their fami...