ReviewNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2021
Habit, choice, and addiction.
Review in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.
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- Reward, relief, and habit drinking profiles in treatment seeking individuals with an AUD.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Trial
- Does time pressure reveal habits? Divergent results from outcome devaluation and response remapping paradigms.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Methamphetamine potentiates the use of outcome-specific associations via a hypothalamic-dopamine circuit.Neuron · 2026Article
- Fentanyl reinforcement history has sex-specific effects on multi-step decision-making.Neuropharmacology · 2026Article
- Dopamine and Acetylcholine in the Striatum: Circuit Interactions and Behavioral Control in Substance Use Disorders.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Drug cue enhances response conflict and reduces conflict adaptation in methamphetamine addiction.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Sex-Specific patterns of vulnerability to alcohol addiction-like behaviors in rats.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Does the Habit Theory of Addictions Extend to Disordered Gambling?Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Goal-directed behavior and hippocampal activity predict real-life impact of drinking intentions in alcohol use disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer effect as predictor of problematic Internet gaming: Results of a longitudinal study.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Modeling hidden cognitive states reveals acute and chronic effects of fentanyl on decision-making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Studying human habit formation through motor sequence learning.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Imbalanced goal-directed and habitual control in individuals with internet gaming disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Increased alcohol-biased choice behavior in mouse models of high alcohol drinking.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
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- Striatal cell-type specific stability and reorganization underlying agency and habit.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction 30 Years On.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Effect of the reinforcement rate on goal-directed and habitual choices in a multiple schedule.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Addiction was suggested to emerge from the progressive dominance of habits over goal-directed behaviors. However, it is generally assumed that habits do not persist in choice settings. Therefore, it is unclear how drug habits may persist in real-world scenarios where this factor predominates. Here, we discuss the poor translational validity of the habit construct, which impedes our ability to determine its role in addiction. New evidence of habitual behavior in a drug choice setting are then described and discussed. Interestingly, habitual preference did not promote drug choice but instead favored abstinence. Here, we propose several clues to reconcile these unexpected results with the habit theory of addiction, and we highlight the need in experimental research to face the complexity of drug addicts' decision-making environments by investigating drug habits in the context of choice and in the presence of cues. On a theoretical level, we need to consider more complex frameworks, taking into account continuous interactions between goal-directed and habitual systems, and alternative decision-making models more representative of real-world conditions.
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