Cognitive and Affective Bases of Addiction

3.00 credits · Graduate

This course is an overview of the cognitive and affective bases of addiction. It will cover models of addiction, the phenomenology of addiction, personality issues, emotion, stress, context, memory, cognition and metacognition, social and familial factors, implicit and explicit processes, craving, cue reactivity, attention, perception, sensory images, mental health issues, and theories of learning, cognition, motivation, and emotion. The course will focus on drugs of abuse but will also cover behavioural addictions.