Abstract Background Athina Markou and her colleagues discovered persistent changes in
adult behavior following adolescent exposure to ethanol or nicotine consistent with …

Increasing evidence indicates that substance-dependent individuals (SDI) are impaired in
executive control tasks relying on different systems within the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Three …

Long-term chronic alcoholism is associated with disparate and widespread residual
consequences for brain functioning and behavior, and alcoholics suffer a variety of cognitive …

Alcohol misuse is a major public concern. Impulsivity has been recognised as a significant
risk factor predisposing for the initiation of alcohol use, continuation and excessive alcohol …

Binge drinking is an increasingly recognized problem within the UK. We have studied the
relationship of binge drinking to cognitive and emotional functioning in young adults, and …

Previous meta-analyses support a female advantage in decoding non-verbal emotion (Hall,
1978, 1984), yet the mechanisms underlying this advantage are not understood. The …

The construct of emotional intelligence (EI) broadly reflects the idea that individuals differ in
their disposition/ability to adaptively generate, recognize, understand, and regulate the …

Individuals with current cocaine use disorders (CUD) form a heterogeneous group, making
sensitive neuropsychological (NP) comparisons with healthy individuals difficult. The current …

Emotion recognition is essential for social interaction and communication and is a capacity
in which the amygdala plays a central role. So far, neuroimaging results have been …

Violence is a social problem that carries enormous costs; however, our understanding of its
etiology is quite limited. A large body of research exists, which suggests a relationship …