The role of dopamine in behaviour and decision-making is often cast in terms of
reinforcement learning and optimal decision theory. Here, we present an alternative view …

Tobacco use is a major public health problem. Nicotine acts on widely distributed nicotinic
acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the brain and excites dopamine (DA) neurons in the …

The search for neuronal and psychological underpinnings of pathological gambling in
humans would benefit from investigating related phenomena also outside of our species. In …

Mathematically rigorous descriptions of key hypotheses and theories are becoming more
common in neuroscience and are beginning to be applied to psychiatry. In this article two …

The main feature of this work is that it explores criminal behavior from all aspects of
Tinbergen's Four Questions. Rather than focusing on a single theoretical point of view, this …

Systemic administration of nicotine increases dopaminergic (DA) neuron firing in the ventral
tegmental area (VTA), which is thought to underlie nicotine reward. Here, we report that the …

Given the relationship between drug abuse and criminal behavior, it is important for
criminologists to understand what drug addiction is and how it occurs. This article examines …

The last couple of decades has witnessed that an amalgamation of multidisciplinary
branches of science come together in the form of 'Bioinformatics' and made a substantial …

Highlights•Reinforcement learning models link dopamine to acquisition of drug-oriented
behaviors.•Recent computational theory completes them by adding goal hierarchy and …

This chapter considers addiction from a purely theoretical point of view. It tries to
substantiate the idea that addictive behaviour is a natural consequence of abnormal …