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NEUROSCIENCE: From the Dark Side to the Bright Side of Drug Addiction
Barry J. Everitt
Neurobiology of Addiction by George F. Koob and Michel Le Moal
Academic Press (Elsevier), London, 2006. 502 pp. $129, £79.95. ISBN 0-12-419239-4.
The authors offer a survey and synthesis of our current understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction.
The reviewer is in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK. E-mail: bje10{at}hermes.cam.ac.uk