Addictive Substances and Disorders — Psychiatry and Clinical Neurobiology

Psychiatry · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

La psiquiatría de las adicciones ha transitado desde un enfoque moral y de desviación conductual hacia un modelo neurobiológico integral basado en la conceptualización de las conductas adictivas como trastornos crónicos y recurrentes del cerebro.

What it covers

1. Concept, Epidemiology and Socio-health Impact
2. · Definition and Conceptual Delimitation
3. · Global Epidemiology and Disease Burden
4. Neurobiology of Addiction: Circuits and Neurotransmission
5. · The Mesocorticolimbic Reward Circuit
6. · Synaptic and Epigenetic Neuroplasticity
7. · Allostasis and the Brain Stress System: The Three Phase Model
8. Diagnosis and Taxonomic Classification
9. · DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 Diagnostic Criteria
10. · Psychiatric Comorbidity and Dual Pathology
11. Alcohol Use Disorder and Withdrawal Syndromes
12. · Physiopathology and Neurochemistry of Ethanol
13. · Delirium Tremens and Wernicke's Encephalopathy
14. · Maintenance and Discontinuation Pharmacotherapy
15. Opioids and Substitution Treatment / Detoxification
16. · Opioid Receptors and Signaling Mechanisms
17. · Clinical Picture: Overdose and Withdrawal
18. · Substitution Treatments (MOUD)
19. Stimulants: Cocaine, Amphetamines and Psychotic Symptoms
20. · Cocaine: Mechanisms of Action and Organic Toxicity
21. · Amphetamines, Methamphetamine and Synthetic Derivatives
22. · Excited Delirium Syndrome
23. Cannabis and Hallucinogens
24. · The Endocannabinoid System and Δ9-THC
25. · Classic and Dissociative Hallucinogens
26. Sedatives, Hypnotics and Anxiolytics
27. · Pharmacological Differences: Benzodiazepines vs. Barbiturates
28. · Withdrawal Syndrome and Gradual Withdrawal Protocol
29. Nicotine, Inhalants and Inhalants
30. · Nicotine Receptors and Discontinuation Pharmacotherapy
31. · Inhalants and Inhalants: Volatile Solvents
32. Addictive Disorders Not Related to Substances (Behavioral Addictions)
33. · Pathological Gambling (Pathological Gambling)
34. · Video Game and New Technology Use Disorder
35. Complex Clinical Cases and Psychiatric Pearls
36. · Clinical Cases of Psychiatric Integration
37. · High Performance Psychiatric Pearls
38. · Table of Differential Diagnosis of Acute Intoxication
39. · Summary of Dishabituation Objectives and Therapeutic Algorithm