Addiction: Choice or compulsion?

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Henden, Edmund ^a   Melberg, Hans Olav ^b   Røgeberg, Ole Jørgen ^c  

^a Oslo and Akershus University College   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c RAGNAR FRISCH CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Addiction; Choice; Compulsion; Irresistible desires; Rationality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR THEORY; BRAIN REGION; COMPULSION; DECISION MAKING; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POWERLESSNESS; SELF CONTROL;

EID: 84884481659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00077     Document Type: Article

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