Risks and Mechanisms in Addiction Neuroscience Informing Treatment
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neuropsychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 March 2026 | Viewed by 460
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tremendous advances have been made in our understanding of addiction cycle neurocircuitry. These advances have propelled further research into mechanisms and risk in addiction neuroscience, informing novel treatment development; this Special Issue aims to highlight this research.
We are looking for cutting-edge research on novel risks and mechanisms which may inform treatment, such as co-occurring conditions that confer addiction risk (e.g., traumatic brain injury), neuromodulatory treatments (e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation), novel therapeutic plastogens (e.g., psychedelics), exercise treatment interventions (e.g., yoga) and endocrine system approaches (e.g., GLP-1 receptor agonists)
We welcome original research reports, scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Dr. Amy A. Herrold
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- substance use disorders
- risk
- mechanism
- neuromodulation
- psychedelic
- GLP-1
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