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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"craving"”.
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Craving What You Still Have
<p>Craving What You Still Have is a collection of poems that explores the complexities of the female spirit through the exploration of sexual identity, feminine stereotypes, and the innate bonds of sisterhood reinforced through generations of desperate women. The relationship between the narrative …
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Behavioral and linguistic markers of craving
Craving, a strong desire or urge to use a substance, is a primary trigger for relapse in individuals living with substance use disorder (SUDs). Environmental cues repeatedly paired with substance use can acquire motivational salience, and later exposure to these cues outside of the substance-use …
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Understanding Craving for Cigarettes: A Multidimensional Assessment Approach
… achieving and maintaining abstinence. Cigarette cravings are frequently cited as a factor contributing to relapse. Addiction theories proposed independently by Wikler, Siegel, and Solomon view cravings as classically conditioned responses to internal or external cues. These responses are …
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A CRAVING FOR HISTORY: IMMIGRANT THEMES IN JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
<p>This dissertation is a cross-generational study of three immigrant themes in Jewish-American literature: transformation, freedom, and connection. It covers a number of twentieth century writers whose central concerns revolve around issues of assimilation. Chapter I gives a brief overview of the …
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Cognitive Processes in Craving: From the Laboratory to the Real World.
Elaborated Intrusion (EI) Theory posits that craving involves mental imagery in the same sensory modalities as the craved substance or activity. Visual imagery predominates, therefore craving should selectively interfere with performance on visual task, and conversely visual tasks should interfere …
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Craving / Carving a sacred space : a study of religion on Stone Mountain.
Drawing upon the tools of spatial analysis, this study examines varieties of sacred space crafted at Stone Mountain Park, near Atlanta, Georgia. The focus on spatial aspects of religious practices at Stone Mountain grounds three over-arching methodological objectives of the thesis. The first is to …
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Environmental Context Effects on Impulsivity and Subjective Craving in Caffeinated Alcohol Users
… suggested that environmental cues may trigger craving and drinking through the influence on impulsivity. Thus, a bar context may elicit greater impulsivity, which in turn, increases one’s craving for alcohol or CAB. Consequently, the present study sought: (1) to determine the influence of an …
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EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE ON CRAVING, STRESS, AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING IN MODERATE TO HEAVY ALCOHOL CONSUMERS
… and normal drinking routines on stress and craving and to examine whether craving and brain connectivity are moderated by patterns of cardiac vagal tone.
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Behavioural and Neuronal Correlates of Long-term Contextual Memory for Cocaine: Relevance to Craving and Relapse
… and associated contextual cues can provoke craving and resumption of drug use, particularly when a reminder of a highly charged context is encountered. In this thesis, three key questions related to the maintenance of long-term memory for drug-associated contexts are addressed: (1) Are …
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The Effect of Marijuana Craving on Brain Activation and Recognition Memory in Healthy and Bipolar Adolescents
… response to a cue-reactivity task, self-reported craving and performance on a recognition memory task in order to parse the cognitive effects of bipolar disorder and the alteration in cognitive performance related to the effects of craving. We examined fMRI measures of brain activation and …
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The Effect of Marijuana Craving on Brain Activation and Recognition Memory in Healthy and Bipolar Adolescents
… response to a cue-reactivity task, self-reported craving and performance on a recognition memory task in order to parse the cognitive effects of bipolar disorder and the alteration in cognitive performance related to the effects of craving. We examined fMRI measures of brain activation and …
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An Experimental Test of the Effects of Social Conflict on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Alcohol Craving
… effect of social conflict on state PTSS, alcohol craving, and alcohol approach bias in an effort to isolate one portion of a complex constellation of difficulties. A total of 46 participants with a history of trauma exposure and current hazardous alcohol use completed a laboratory-based assessment …
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The Effect of an Acute Exercise Intervention on Alcohol Craving and Alcohol Seeking Behaviours Among Heavy Social Drinkers: Preliminary Findings
Alcohol Craving predicts alcohol seeking behaviours and these constructs can cause someone with problematic alcohol use to develop an alcohol use disorder. Current treatments are not effective or easily accessible to everyone, therefore exercise is a promising treatment modality. The present study …
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Aplicaciones de la realidad virtual en el tratamiento del tabaquismo
El término craving, que define el deseo o ansia por consumir una droga, es un concepto importante en el ámbito de las adicciones. En el caso del tabaco, el craving es considerado una de las principales causas de su consumo compulsivo y de las dificultades con las que se enfrentan los fumadores …
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The nature of food cravings following weight-loss surgery
… obesity in western society, the nature of food cravings in individuals who have undergone weight-loss surgery has been relatively unstudied. This study aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the experience of food craving comparing groups of participants according to a) time post-surgery and b) …
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Can Computers Assist Treatment? Virtual Reality as a Possible Cue Exposure Technique With Adolescent Substance Abusers
… and five substance-abuse experts who provided craving/usefulness ratings for each video clip. During Part 2, five youth met in a focus group and then individually to provide input on the development of the VR paradigm. During Part 3, 26 youth completed a laboratory procedure involving neutral …
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