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The aim is to analyze how addictive drugs act as reinforcers on learning and memory systems, influencing behavior.

July 1, 1996Addiction

Addictive drugs as reinforcers: multiple partial actions on memory systems

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This review illustrates how addictive drugs affect behavior through various memory systems, suggesting complex interactions.

The aim is to analyze how addictive drugs act as reinforcers on learning and memory systems, influencing behavior.
Review of experimental findings and theoretical ideas on neural mechanisms of learning and memory.
Analysis of interactions between reinforcers and memory systems in the mammalian brain.
Discussion of actions of specific addictive drugs (amphetamine, cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, morphine) on these systems.
Addictive drugs activate neural substrates affecting approach or escape responses.
Each drug mimics subsets of actions on learning and memory systems, facilitating its own self-administration.
Evidence supports the existence of multiple memory systems, underscoring the complexity of addictive behaviors.

Norman M. White (1996) studied this question.

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