Hijacking the Brain

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Addiction is recognized by experts as an organic brain disease, and most experts promote Twelve-Step programs which invoke a 'spiritual solution' for recovery. To date, no one has described "why" these programs work. The authors examine data provided by the fields of neuroscience, neuroimaging, psychology, sociobiology and interpersonal neurobiology that have given us new, dramatic insights into the neural and hormonal correlates of stress and addiction