Cue-exposure therapy |
A behavior therapy technique in which a patient is exposed to stimuli that induce cravings for specific substances of use (e.g., alcohol) while the therapist uses other techniques to reduce or eliminate the craving and prevent their habitual response (i.e., drug use) (77, 78). |
Memory reconsolidation |
The active process of restabilizng a reactivated memory that has been formerly stored in long-term memory, while new information is incorporated during reconsolidation into an updated memory (8, 79). |
Episodic future thinking |
The mental capacity to imagine or simulate events or experiences that might occur in one's personal future to pre-experience a probable event (30, 31). |
Reinforcer pathology theory |
The Reinforcer Pathology theory proposes conditions that result in an excessive valuation of addictive substances/behaviors as observed in addictive disorders (e.g., drug addiction, overeating). This approach identifies and measures a process that is well-correlated with a disorder or disease, followed by interventions designed to change that disease-correlated process and assess its effects on other aspects of the disorder (53, 80). |
Incentive salience theory |
The Incentive Salience Theory of addiction suggests that addiction is caused primarily by drug-induced sensitization in the brain mesocorticolimbic pathways that attribute incentive salience to reward-associated stimuli. This theory proposes that sensitization of the neural systems responsible for incentive salience (drug wanting) can occur independently of changes in neural systems that mediate the subjective pleasurable effects of drugs (drug “liking”) (81, 82). |
Delay discounting |
The decrease in the present subjective value of a reward as the delay to its receipt increases. Delay discounting is a commonly used behavioral measure of impulsive decision making (83, 84). |
Implementation intentions |
Implementation intentions are if-then plans specifying when, where, and how the person will set their actions into motion that spell out in advance how one wants to reach a goal (85). |