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General Components of Addiction, Cognition, Addiction and Cognition -…

- - - - "Universal" Action of Mesolimbic Reward Circuitry
        
        Brain Plasticity
        
        Synaptic Pruning
        
        Addictive behavior and cue-drug associations are enhanced by increased LTPs within the feedback loop of drug-seeking behavior, strengthening the connectivity of the harmful behavior patterns and decreasing the connectivity of other learned behavioral patterns
        
        "While drugs affect the brain through a variety of different chemical actions, the core components and neural circuits of addiction are almost always present: learned behavior and the reward system of the brain. This is important because it allows for addiction, a phenomenon experienced extremely differently in regards to individual differences and drug-type, to be explained in terms of its core components."
        
        Neurochemical Positive Reinforcement (Dopamine)
        
        Nucleus Accumbens