From Glamour to Squalor And, Finally, Recovery
From glamour to squalor and, finally, recovery
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Panic! at the Disco Drummer Smith Reveals Four-Year Battle with Drug …
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Top-Down Modulation of Interoception: A New Frontier For Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatments
Event on 2013-11-01 11:00:00
Location: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke
Sponsor: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
Martin P. Paulus, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
University of San Diego
San Diego, California
A seminar in the
Interoception consists of the receiving, processing, and integrating body-relevant signals with external stimuli to affect ongoing motivated behavior. The role of interoception and its neural basis with relevance to drug addiction will be reviewed. The insular cortex is the central nervous system hub to process and integrate these signals. Interoception is an important component of several addiction-relevant constructs including arousal, attention, stress, reward, and conditioning.
Imaging studies with drug-addicted individuals show that the insular cortex is hypo-active during cognitive control processes but hyperactive during cue reactivity and reward-related processes. It is proposed that interoception contributes to drug addiction by incorporating an "embodied" experience of prior uses of drugs together with the individual's internal state and predicted body states to modulate approach or avoidance behavior, i.e., whether to take or not to take drugs.
This opens the possibility of two types of interventions. First, one may be able to modulate the embodied experience by enhancing insula reactivity where necessary, e.g., when engaging in risky behavior, or attenuating insula when exposed to drug-relevant cues. Second, one may be able to reduce the urge to act by increasing limbic motor cortex processing, i.e., inhibiting the urge to use by employing cognitive training.
Live Webcast:
Hosted by: Michael J. Friedlander, PhD, Executive Director, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
Contact:
Michael Friedlander
[email protected]
540-526-2013
at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute R1059
Blacksburg, United States