The current generation of adolescents grows up in a media-saturated world. However, it is
unclear how media influences the maturational trajectories of brain regions involved in …

Research has demonstrated that extensive structural and functional brain development
continues throughout adolescence. A popular notion emerging from this work states that a …

Adolescence is characterized by making risky decisions. Early lesion and neuroimaging
studies in adults pointed to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and related structures as …

Despite evident heightened adolescent risk-taking in real-life situations, not all experimental
studies demonstrate that adolescents take more risks than children and adults on risky …

Abstract Background The US National Institutes of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria
(RDoC) seek to stimulate research into biologically validated neuropsychological …

BACKGROUND: Alcoholism is a progressive neurocognitive developmental disorder.
Recent evidence shows that computerized training interventions (Cognitive Bias …

The past decade has witnessed a surge in research on training paradigms aimed at directly
influencing cognitive processes in addiction and other psychopathology. Broadly, two …

Life is full of risky decisions, from the mundane to matters of life or death. Individuals differ in
the risks they accept (or even deliberately embrace). However, risk taking is not a single trait …

Aim To examine the evidence to support using a staging heuristic for eating disorders,
suggesting that the diagnosis of an eating disorder follows a trajectory across the life course …

From its academic beginnings the theory of human action control has distinguished between
endogenously driven, intentional action and exogenously driven, habitual, or automatic …