The role of serotonin in drug use and addiction

CP Müller, JR Homberg - Behavioural brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of psychoactive drugs is a wide spread behaviour in human societies. The
systematic use of a drug requires the establishment of different drug use-associated …

Dare to delay? The impacts of adolescent alcohol and marijuana use onset on cognition, brain structure, and function

KM Lisdahl, ER Gilbart, NE Wright… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Throughout the world, drug and alcohol use has a clear adolescent onset (Degenhardt et
al.,). Alcohol continues to be the most popular drug among teens and emerging adults, with …

Behavioral economic predictors of brief alcohol intervention outcomes.

JG Murphy, AA Dennhardt, AM Yurasek… - Journal of consulting …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The present study attempted to determine whether behavioral economic indices
of elevated alcohol reward value, measured before and immediately after a brief alcohol …

Systematic review of structural and functional neuroimaging studies of cannabis use in adolescence and emerging adulthood: evidence from 90 studies and 9441 …

SD Lichenstein, N Manco, LM Cope, L Egbo… - …, 2022 - nature.com
Cannabis use peaks in adolescence, and adolescents may be more vulnerable to the neural
effects of cannabis and cannabis-related harms due to ongoing brain development during …

Modulatory effects of cannabinoids on brain neurotransmission

K Cohen, A Weizman… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recreational and chronic cannabis use has been associated with a range of acute and
chronic effects including; anti‐nociceptive actions, anxiety, depression, psychotic symptoms …

Compromised External Validity: Federally Produced Cannabis Does Not Reflect Legal Markets

D Vergara, LC Bidwell, R Gaudino, A Torres, G Du… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
As the most widely used illicit drug worldwide, and as a source of numerous under-studied
pharmacologically-active compounds, a precise understanding of variability in psychological …

The hyper-sentient addict: an exteroception model of addiction

SJ DeWitt, A Ketcherside, TM McQueeny… - The American journal …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Exteroception involves processes related to the perception of environmental
stimuli important for an organism's ability to adapt to its environment. As such, exteroception …

Frontostriatal resting state functional connectivity in resilient and non-resilient adolescents with a family history of alcohol use disorder

ME Martz, LM Cope, JE Hardee, SJ Brislin… - Journal of child and …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Objectives: Youth with parental substance use disorder (family-history positive [FH+]) are at
an elevated risk for substance use problems, but not all FH+ youth experience this outcome …

Functional connectivity and cannabis use in high-risk adolescents

JM Houck, AD Bryan… - The American journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Adolescence is a unique neurodevelopmental period when regions of the
brain most able to assess risk and reward are still in development. Cannabis use during …

Application of Research Domain Criteria to childhood and adolescent impulsive and addictive disorders: Implications for treatment

SW Yip, MN Potenza - Clinical psychology review, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative provides a large-scale,
dimensional framework for the integration of research findings across traditional diagnoses …