Improving Addiction Treatment Through Better Understanding and Targeting Cognitive Motivational Mechanisms
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Addictions are among the most frequent and costly of all mental and brain disorders. In the past decade, new training methods have been developed to improve addiction treatment based on insights into the (neuro)cognitive mechanisms involved. The symposium provides an overview of these developments and introduces new methods inspired by emerging insights into working mechanisms.
Chair: Reinout W. Wiers, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Speakers: Reinout W. Wiers, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pieter Van Dessel, Ghent University, Belgium
Ting Pan, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Warren K. Bickel, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, USA
Discussant: Kenneth J. Sher, University of Missouri, USA
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