George F. Koob, Ph.D. (1947- ) is a Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Neurobiology is the study of cells of the Nervous system and the organization of these cells into functional circuits that process information and mediate behavior The Scripps Research Institute ( TSRI) is a Medical research facility that focuses on research in the basic Biomedical sciences Primarily located Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat Mental disorders in Humans Psychiatric The University of California San Diego (popularly known as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public Research university in San Diego, California
Dr. Koob is a pioneering researcher in the field of substance abuse and stress. He has proposed, with Dr. Michel Le Moal, a contemporary model of drug addiction termed "the allostatic model of addiction". The term " addiction " is used in many contexts to describe an obsession compulsion or excessive Physical dependence or psychological dependence such as [1] [2] He is one of the most highly cited contemporary neuroscientists. [3] Dr. Koob has co-authored a book in collaboration with Dr. Le Moal. [4]
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- ^ PMID:9311926 Koob, G.F. and Le Moal, M.; "Drug abuse: hedonic homeostatic dysregulation." Science. 1997 Oct. 3;278(5335):52-8.
- ^ PMID:11120394 Koob, G.F. and Le Moal, M.; "Drug addiction, dysregulation of reward, and allostasis." Neuropsychopharmacology. 2001 Feb;24(2):97-129. Review.
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge (Search Form)
- ^ George F. Koob, Michel LeMoal, "Neurobiology of Addiction", Academic Press (2005), ISBN-13: 978-0124192393
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