Memory Training May Help Addicts Recover

Psych Central:

Researchers know that people with addictions to stimulants tend to choose instant gratification or a smaller but sooner reward over a future benefit, even if the future reward is greater.

Bickel and colleagues decided to test the possibility that increasing an individual's ability to remember would decrease the discounting of future events. "In other words, we asked whether improved memory could result in a greater appreciation of a future reward," said Bickel.

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Comments

[h3ll0mktg]

01:44 AM on 01/29/2011

I'm convinced that humans have almost a photographic ability to remember melodies. The more you use your brain that way, the stronger that ability gets.

[bikerdude]

10:07 PM on 01/28/2011

We do use memory training to aid addiction recovery. We try to teach them to "think through the drink". To remember what sort of pain usually results from picking up even the first one...especially the first one. The 12 step programs say that if you can't remember your last run, you probably haven't had it....yet....

[Ranveig Elvebakk]

08:50 PM on 01/28/2011

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