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Chapter 6 **Investigation of Emotion Characters of Internet Abusers Using Psychophysiological Signals 103** Dai-Ling Hsieh and Tzu-Chien Hsiao

Chapter 7 **Methadone Treatment for Heroin Dependence 117** Baconi Daniela Luiza, Anne Marie Ciobanu, Robert Daniel Vasile, Ana-Maria Vlasceanu, Mirela Nedelescu and Miriana Stan

Preface

ic factors.

book's topics and objectives.

This edited volume is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters concerning the developments within the drug addiction field of study. The book includes scholarly contri‐ butions by various authors and is edited by a group of experts pertinent to the subject field. Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but directly related to the

Chapter 1 is concerned with deep brain stimulation (DBS) in treatment-refractory addiction. Surgical treatment for addiction has been proposed after the success of DBS for the treat‐ ment of neurological movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. In the field of psychi‐ atric diseases, DBS has been used for obsessive compulsive disorder and treatment-resistant

Chapter 2 studies the effects of alcohol on brain development. Approximately 3.3 million deaths worldwide occur every year due to harmful use of alcohol. This represents 5.9% of all deaths. Ethanol metabolites production and their post-translation modification are one of

Chapter 3 focuses on the relationship between bereavement and addiction, specifically among those patients who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder. Although bereave‐ ment research has advanced greatly in the recent years, there are few studies on bereave‐

Chapter 4 overviews nursing care for persons with drug addiction. Persons with drug ad‐ diction exhibit symptoms that affect the central nervous system, which lead to both positive and negative symptoms. Drug addiction is a significant problem and needs more treatment

Chapter 5 deals with molecular-cellular targets of the pathogenetic action of ethanol in the human brain in ontogenesis and targeted therapy aimed at correcting the effect of pathogen‐

Chapter 6 investigates emotions and characters of Internet abusers using psychophysiologi‐ cal signals. Because of the Internet and Internet-enabled devices are ubiquitous, the number of Internet users has rapidly increased. Internet addiction is also a fast-growing, serious, and

Chapter 7 offers an insight into methadone treatment for heroin dependence. In substitution therapy for the treatment of heroin addiction, methadone is the synthetic opioid agonist of first choice. The results obtained by clinical, laboratory, and psychological complex evalua‐ tions in a correlative approach are essential not only in both initiating the methadone treat‐ ment and monitoring the detox period but also in the supervision of methadone

The target audience of this edited volume comprises scholars and specialists in the field.

depression. The role in addiction has been proposed only recently.

the proposed mechanisms that lead to neuronal toxicity.

ment among the drug-dependent population.

and care from multidisciplinary treatment teams.

unavoidable problem around the world.

maintenance treatment.
