Nadja Samia Bahr

Apr 8, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Andreas Heinz |Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin |Stefan Gutwinski |Nadja Samia Bahr

1 INTRODUCTION Compulsion is often regarded as a key feature of addictions and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD).1 One of the leading drug addiction theories describes addictive behaviour as a transition from voluntary goal-directed, recreational drug use to compulsive drug-seeking habits that result from prefrontal cortical to striatal control over drug-seeking as well as a progression from the ventral to the dorsal striatum.2, 3 Thus, an individual may compulsively seek drugs – that is,...