Main description:

This book deals with recent perspectives on the panel of addiction behavior in a vast amount of population (young and adult). Thanks to the contribution of experts of the topic of addiction the volume will furnish new perspectives to formulate assessment, diagnosis and intervention in response to the increasing variety of addictions. It focuses the assessment of executive functions in substance and behavioral addictions. More specifically, this assessment consists of a new approach not only inherent to the diagnosis, but also to the treatment and prevention of addictions. In fact, there is a strict relationship between executive functions (EF) and addictive behavior: EF plays a remarkable role in significant phenomena for the treatment of addictions, such as craving, relapse and compliance to treatment.

Contents:

Part 1The executive functions in traditional and behavioral addictions

Chapter 1. Similarities and differences between old and behavioral addictions: Focus on executive functions

Chapter 2. The assessment of executive functions: A new neuropsychological tool for the assessment of executive functions")

2.1. Structure of neuropsychological battery

2.2. Potential applications: Salience and innovativeness

2.3. An empirical study

Chapter 3. Analysis of executive functions in pathological gambling disorder

3.1. Data analysis: A comparison between a control group and a pathological group

3.2. A further comparison between substance use disorder and pathological gambling disorder

Part 2

Prevention and treatment of addictions

Chapter 4. Neuroenhancement of executive functions in addictions

Chapter 5. Mindfulness as a way for treating addiction-related disorders

Chapter 6. Neuromodulation techniques in the treatment of addictions

6.1. TMS

6.2. tDCS

6.3. Neurofeedback

Chapter 7. Comorbidities between mental disorders and addictions

7.1. Stress and anxiety: risk and maintenance factors of addictions

Part 3

Some mechanisms behind addictions

Chapter 8. Impulse control and reward systems in old e new addictions

Chapter 9. Interoception: an etiological mechanism or a tool for rehabilitation?

Chapter 10. The theme of new addiction in the developmental age