Imagining the Future to Reshape the Past: A Path to Combine Cue Extinction and Memory Reconsolidation With Episodic Foresight for Addiction Treatment

Front Psychiatry. 2021 Jul 21:12:692645. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.692645. eCollection 2021.

Parnian Rafei^{1

2}, Tara Rezapour³, Warren K Bickel⁴, Hamed Ekhtiari⁵

¹ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
² Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences Studies, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Addiction Recovery Research Center, Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA, United States.
⁵ Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States.

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Keywords: addiction; cognitive training; cue-exposure therapy; episodic foresight; episodic future thinking; memory reconsolidation.