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Addiction: Taking the brain seriously

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Steven E. Hyman
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114 and National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, MD 20857. hyman@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Abstract

Heyman's target article is an analytical tour de force, but it makes too hard a distinction between voluntary and driven behavior. It is more fruitful to think about brain and behavior as shifting, interacting “agents,” represented by multiple neural circuits. This has the virtue of better connecting behavioral analysis with wet neuroscience.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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