Cognition and Addiction

Marcus Munafò's research interests are in the integration of multiple research perspectives to understand individual differences in smoking behaviour and, in particular, smoking cessation. This has included substantial work on smoking cessation pharmacogenetics, as well as behavioural and neuroimaging studies of smoking-related endophenotypes. He recently contributed material on the genetics of smoking behaviour and smoking cessation pharmacogenetics, with Caryn Lerman, to the forthcoming Surgeon General's Report on tobacco-related disease.In 2004 he was awarded the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Young Investigator Award, and in 2005 the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Fellowship Award.Ian P. Albery is Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Member of the Division of Health Psychology of the BPS and a Chartered Health Psychologist. He previously held posts at the University of Kent at Canterbury, the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry and the University of Reading. He is the author of numerous chapters and academic papers in aspects of cognition and addiction and also runs a very successful MSc in Addiction Psychology and Counselling at London South Bank University.

The book is timely, very informative, exciting and even entertaining . The monograph captures the current state-of-the-art in this exciting and rapidly growing field of research and is tremendously helpful in gaining a comprehensive overview as well as to identify directions for future research. It is highly recommended for researchers and other academic staff, postgraduate students and everyone who works in the field of addiction. s This book is on the cutting edge of cognitive science and its relationship to addiction. It is full of research findings and provides treatment alternatives...Readers won't be disappointed. Doody's Notes

• 1. Theoretical perspectives and approaches ; 2. An implicit cognition, associative memory framework for addiction ; 3. Attentional biases in drug abuse and addiction: cognitive mechanisms, causes, consequences and implications ; 4. Motivational basis of cognitive determinants of addiction ; 5. Towards understanding loss of control: an automatic network theory of addictive behaviours ; 6. From DNA to conscious thought: the influence of anticipatory processes on human alcohol consumption ; 7. Opiate cognitions ; 8. Neurocircuitry of attentional processes in addictive behaviours ; 9. Clinical relevance of implicit cognition in addiction ; 10. Appetite lost and found: cognitive psychology in the addiction clinic