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These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the field over the twenty years of its existence and reflect the many groundbreaking scientific contributions and enduring influence of Michael Gazzaniga, 'the godfather of cognitive neuroscience'.

Cognitive neuroscience -- Congresses. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Gazzaniga, Michael S. -- Congresses. --- Cognitive neuroscience --- Collected Works --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Mental Processes --- Neurosciences --- Festschrift --- Cognition --- Publication Formats --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Publication Characteristics --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Neuroscience --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gazzaniga, Michael S. --- Gazzaniga, M. S. --- Gazzaniga, Mike --- NEUROSCIENCE/General --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology

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"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics, and other fields survey the latest findings in addiction science. They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysiological, psychological, or social, or incorporates aspects of all of these; to what extent addicts are responsible for their problems, and how this affects health and regulatory policies; and whether addiction is determined by inheritance or environment or both. The chapter authors discuss the possibility of a unifying basis for different addictions (considering both substance addiction and pathological gambling), offering both neurally and neuroscientifically grounded accounts as well as discussions of the social context of addiction. There can be no definitive answer yet to the question posed by the title of this book; but these essays demonstrate an advance over the simplistic conception embedded in popular culture."--Jacket.

Cognitive neuroscience. --- Compulsive behavior. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Neurosciences -- Social aspects. --- Substance abuse. --- Neurosciences --- Social aspects. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Addictive behavior --- Behavior, Compulsive --- Compulsion (Psychology) --- Abuse of substances --- Addiction, Substance --- Chemical dependence --- Chemical dependency --- Substance addiction --- Substance dependence --- Substance-related disorders --- Substance use disorders --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Cognitive science --- Neuropsychology --- Impulse --- Psychology, Pathological --- Obsessive-compulsive disorder --- Drug addiction. --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General --- Addiction to drugs --- Drug dependence --- Drug dependency --- Drug habit --- Narcotic addiction --- Narcotic habit --- Narcotics addiction --- Drug abuse