Addictions Rehabilitation From an Executive Functioning Model

Objective: The objective of this narrative review was to investigate the advances that have been made in research on the model of executive functioning for rehabilitation in addictions. Materials and Methods: This study presents a narrative review of studies that have focused on the neuropsychological model in the rehabilitation of addictions. For this, a total of 49 studies were analyzed, published in a period from 1982 to 2017. Results: The results showed that addictions constitute a brain damage agent, their main sequel is related to executive functioning and attentional capacity. Conclusions: Research on cognitive rehabilitation performed with patients with multiple brain pathologies, have shown their effectiveness in treatment, generating a line of study in addictions, which shows improvements in treatment retention rates and decrease in relapse rates.