title: Cognitive interventions for addiction medicine: Understanding the underlying neurobiological mechanisms.
abstract: Neuroimaging provides a tool for investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of cognitive interventions in addiction. The aim of this review was to describe the brain circuits that are recruited during cognitive interventions, examining differences between various treatment modalities while highlighting core mechanisms, in drug addicted individuals. Based on a systematic Medline search we reviewed neuroimaging studies on cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive inhibition of craving, motivational interventions, emotion regulation, mindfulness, and neurofeedback training in addiction. Across intervention modalities, common results included the normalization of aberrant activity in the brain's reward circuitry, and the recruitment and strengthening of the brain's inhibitory control network. Results suggest that different cognitive interventions act, at least partly, through recruitment of a common inhibitory control network as a core mechanism. This implies potential transfer effects between training modalities. Overall, results confirm that chronically hypoactive prefrontal regions implicated in cognitive control in addiction can be normalized through cognitive means.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zilverstand
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Muhammad A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Parvaz
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Scott J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Moeller
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA. Electronic address: rita.goldstein@mssm.edu.
authors.forename: Rita Z
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009446:Neurobiology; D058765:Neurofeedback; D059906:Neuroimaging; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000534:rehabilitation*
keywords: CBT; Cognitive control; EEG; Emotion regulation; Neurofeedback; Psychotherapy; Substance use disorders; Training; Treatment; fMRI
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