TY  - CONF
N1  - cited By 1; Conference of 2014 5th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2014 ; Conference Date: 3 June 2014 Through 5 June 2014; Conference Code:107042
N2  - Drug addiction is one of the chronic mental disorders that results in a compulsive behavior to seek and consume drug. Recent statistics show that about 15 of world population is addicted with some sort of drug. It has been reported that drug addiction causes structural such as change in volume of gray and/or white matter, and functional neuroplasticity such as changes in the concentration of neurotransmitter (dopamine, glutamate, GABA etc.). Functional neuroplasticity can either block or excite neurotransmission among the neurons, hence altering the functionality of neurons and disrupt the control mechanism in the reward pathway and finally leading to an uncontrolled behavior. In drug addiction, the occurrence of uncontrolled behaviors in the different regions of reward pathways can be modeled using brain circuit to map directly the neural activities. This paper discusses the biological & chemical processes and control mechanisms involved in drug addiction develops a model of brain circuit under the influence of drug. It is observed that reduced inhibitory neurotransmission of GABA and increased excitatory neurotransmission of Glutamate in different regions of brain circuit contributes to reorganization of control mechanism by impaired encoding in control regions (PFC and Cigulate Gyrus). As a result, the drug related reward is considered as reinforcement of drug taking. Furthermore, it is also argued that estimation and quantification of GABA and Glutamate may provide significant differences between normal and drug addict brain that will lead to development of drug addiction severity monitoring system. © 2014 IEEE.
KW  - Neurophysiology
KW  -  Chemical process; Control mechanism; Excitatory neurotransmission; Mental disorders; Monitoring system; Neural activity; Neuroplasticity; World population
KW  -  Brain
ID  - scholars4959
TI  - Brain circuit model for drug addiction
CY  - Kuala Lumpur
AV  - none
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84906335954&doi=10.1109%2fICIAS.2014.6869524&partnerID=40&md5=c8a7fdb5755eaf0f3a13bad6f5bd338d
A1  - Hani, A.F.M.
A1  - Haq, N.U.
A1  - Kumar, D.
A1  - Wei, E.H.T.
Y1  - 2014///
SN  - 9781479946549
PB  - IEEE Computer Society
ER  -