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> Excerpt: Addiction Is a Symptom of Altered Brain Architecture

Excerpt: Addiction Is a Symptom of Altered Brain Architecture

George Koob

Air Traffic Control, Stress, Addiction, Brain Architecture

October 2012

Dr. George Koob summarizes addiction as a brain disease with impairment to the reward system, the stress system, and the executive function system.

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