Brain development is a remarkable process. Progenitor cells are born, differentiate, and
migrate to their final locations. Axons and dendrites branch and form important synaptic …

BACKGROUND: Two competing concepts address the development of involvement with
psychoactive substances: the “gateway hypothesis”(GH) and common liability to addiction …

Is resilience always adaptive and functional, or can resilience be maladaptive in contexts
where it masks vulnerability or prevents effective action to address risk? In this paper, we …

Background If most adults with mental disorders are found to have a juvenile psychiatric
history, this would shift etiologic research and prevention policy to focus more on childhood …

Impulsivity as a behavioral construct encompasses a wide range of what are often
considered maladaptive behaviors. Impulsivity has been assessed using a variety of …

Research emanating from the field of developmental science indicates that initial risk factors
for alcohol use and disorder can be evident in early childhood. One dominant …

Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n= 142) were
prospectively monitored into adolescence (13–18 years old) to evaluate their risk for …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the predictive power of executive functions, in particular, response
inhibition, in relation to alcohol-related problems and illicit drug use in adolescence …

Constraints on cosmological parameters depend on the set of parameters chosen to define
the model that is compared with observational data. I use the Akaike and Bayesian …

OBJECTIVE: This longitudinal study had three aims: 1) determine the extent to which boys at
high average risk and low average risk for substance use disorder differ on a construct of …