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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CompulsionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disordersInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: ИгрокъThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsionCited 3,214 times
- Go sideways: DisorderA closely related topic
- Go sideways: ObsessionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
Noun The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
Noun The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion
Addiction and the brain: The neurobiology of compulsion and its persistence
Addiction, a Disease of Compulsion and Drive: Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex
Mode of action of apomorphine and dexamphetamine on gnawing compulsion in rats
Conditioning factors in drug abuse: can they explain compulsion?
The transition to compulsion in addiction
The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma
Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory
🆕 Influential since 2022
From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disorders
Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion
e-commerce website customer engagement: Delineating the role of UTAUT, vividness, and compulsion
Animal models of compulsion alcohol drinking: Why we love quinine-resistant intake and what we learned from it
The consequences of compulsion: A 4-year longitudinal study of compulsive internet use and emotion regulation difficulties.
📚 Books worth reading
ИгрокъFiódor Dostoievski · 1866
Last Exit to BrooklynHubert Selby, Jr., Hubert Selby Jr. · 1964
Women Who Love Too MuchRobin Norwood · 1985
DamageJosephine Hart · 1991
Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace · 1996
CrashJ. G. Ballard · 1973
ZahirPaulo Coelho · 2005
The boy who couldn't stop washingJudith L. Rapoport · 1989
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