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Volume 337:1094-1095 October 9, 1997 Number 15
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Drug Addiction and Its Treatment: Nexus of neuroscience and behavior

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Edited by Bankole A. Johnson and John D. Roache. 448 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott–Raven, 1997. $125. ISBN 0-397-51764-5.

The impetus for this book grew out of the editors' concern that the behavioral and neuroscience disciplines have developed independently of one another; in research on drug abuse, therefore, a mutual understanding of each other's technology was in order. Johnson and Roache propose that the nexus of neuroscience and behavior is on the cutting edge of current technology and that clinicians familiar with the fundamentals of these disciplines will be better prepared to "integrate pharmacological, behavioral, and social work technologies into a comprehensive treatment plan."

The book has four sections, entitled "Behavioral Processes," "Neurobiological Processes," "New Horizons in Neuroscience," and . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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