Indeed, not really a brain disorder: Implications for reductionist accounts of addiction

Authors
Publication date 2019
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e9
Volume | Issue number 42
Pages (from-to) 18-19
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Borsboom et al.'s formulation provides an opportunity for a fundamental rethink about the "brain disease model" of addiction that dominates research, treatment, policy, and lay understanding of addiction. We also demonstrate how the American opioid crisis provides a contemporary example of how "brain disease" is not moderated by the environmental context but is instead crucially dependent upon it.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Open peer commentary to: D. Borsboom, A.O.J. Cramer, A. Kalis (2019) Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42:e2.
Language English
Related publication Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001024
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