Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant
reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed because of overvaluation of …

Background: Many studies report a positive association between smoking and mental
illness. However, the literature remains mixed regarding the direction of this association. We …

Research into the comorbidity between emotional psychopathology and cigarette smoking
has often focused upon anxiety and depression's manifest symptoms and syndromes, with …

The field of behavioral economics has made important inroads into the understanding of
substance use disorders through the concept of reinforcer pathology. Reinforcer pathology …

Background: Smoking and depression are both leading causes of disability, mortality and
morbidity around the world. Using epidemiologic data to study the association between …

Whether well-documented patterns of mental health comorbidity with adolescent
combustible cigarette use extend to e-cigarette use is unclear. Demonstrating associations …

A robust body of theoretical and experimental work highlights the influence of alternative,
substance-free rewards on decisions to use alcohol and other drugs. However, translational …

Objectives There is little knowledge about how emotional regulation contributes to
vulnerability versus resilience to substance use disorder. With younger adolescents, we …

Objectives To investigate whether associations of smoking with depression and anxiety are
likely to be causal, using a Mendelian randomisation approach. Design Mendelian …

Objective: The present study attempted to determine whether behavioral economic indices
of elevated alcohol reward value, measured before and immediately after a brief alcohol …