The field of psychiatry is hampered by a lack of robust, reliable and valid biomarkers that can
aid in objectively diagnosing patients and providing individualized treatment …

Cigarette smoking and obesity are the leading causes of premature morbidity and mortality
and increase the risk of all-cause mortality four-fold when comorbid. Individuals with these …

Smoking is partly attributed to alterations of reward processing. However, findings on the
neurobiological mechanisms that underlie smoking-related and smoking-unrelated reward …

Problematic pornography use (PPU) is characterized by compulsive and uncontrolled
pornography consumption due to a disordered reward processing system. Past studies have …

Achieving abstinence from drugs is a long journey and can be particularly challenging in the
case of methamphetamine, which has a higher relapse rate than other drugs. Therefore, real …

How does craving bias decisions to pursue drugs over other valuable, and healthier,
alternatives in addiction? To address this question, we measured the in-the-moment …

Emotions are frequently considered as the driving force of behavior, and psychopathology is
often characterized by aberrant emotional responding. Emotional states are reflected on a …

Alcohol cue exposure is a widely used experimental paradigm for screening
pharmacotherapies for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Medication‐related reductions in cue …

Considerable research has linked relative reduction in the amplitude of the P3 event-related
potential (ERP) during cognitive task performance (ie, Target-P3) with increased risk of …

Multiple theoretical perspectives posit that drug use leads to biased valuation of drug‐
related reward, at the expense of naturally occurring rewarding activities (ie, reward …