
Does it still make sense to call addiction a ‘brain disease’?
The popular brain-disease model was meant to reduce stigma and explain addiction. It’s time to check whether it’s delivered
by Chrysanthi Blithikioti & Ioana Alina Cristea
Ioana Alina Cristea is associate professor of clinical psychology at the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padova in Italy. Her work applies meta-research – methods investigating how research is planned, conducted and reported – to clinically important questions, such as how to develop, improve or more robustly evaluate mental health treatments.