The purpose of this book is to review our state of knowledge
about the neurobehavioral and psychosocial processes involved in
behavioral inhibitory processes and to provide an insight into how
these basic research findings may be translated into the practice
of drug abuse prevention interventions. Over the last decade, there
has been a wealth of information indicating that substance use
disorders do not simply reflect an exaggeration of reward seeking
behavior, but that they also represent a dysfunction of behavioral
inhibitory processes that are critical in exercising self-control.
A number of studies have determined that individuals with substance
use disorders have poor inhibitory control compared to non-abusing
individuals. In addition, the fact that the adolescent period is
often characterized by a lack of inhibitory control may be one
important reason for the heightened vulnerability for the
initiation of drug use during this time.
Controlled experiments utilizing neuroscience techniques in
laboratory animals or neuroimaging techniques in humans have
revealed that individual differences in prefrontal cortical regions
may underlie, at least in part, these differences in inhibitory
control. Although a few excellent journal reviews have been
published on the role of inhibitory deficits in drug abuse, there
has been relatively little attention paid to the potential
applications of this work for drug abuse prevention. The current
book will provide both basic and applied researchers with an
overview of this important health-relevant topic. Since
translational research cuts across multiple disciplines and most
readers are not familiar with all of these disciplines, the reading
level will be geared to be accessible to graduate students, as well
as to faculty and researchers in the field.
The book will be organized around three general themes, encased
within introductory and concluding chapters. The first theme will
review basic neurobehavioral research findings on inhibition and
drug abuse. Chapters in this theme will emphasize laboratory
studies using human volunteers or laboratory animals that document
the latest research implicating a relation between inhibition and
drug abuse at both the neural and behavioral levels of analysis.
The second theme will move the topic to at-risk populations that
have impulse control problems, including children, adolescents and
young adults. The third theme will concentrate on prevention
science as it relates to inhibitory control. Chapters in this theme
will be written by experts attempting to develop and improve
prevention interventions by integrating evidence-based knowledge
about inhibitory control processes. In all of the chapters, writers
will be asked to speculate about innovative approaches that may be
useful for the practice of prevention.
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