It has long been hypothesized that conditioning mechanisms play major roles in addiction.
Specifically, the associations between rewarding properties of drugs of abuse and the drug …

This article proposes a heuristic framework for the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment that
incorporates key functional domains derived from the neurocircuitry of addiction. We review …

Abstract Background and Aims Despite decades of research on co‐occurring smoking and
depression, cessation rates remain consistently lower for depressed smokers than for …

Background Nicotine receptor partial agonists may help people to stop smoking by a
combination of maintaining moderate levels of dopamine to counteract withdrawal …

Background: Cigarette smoking is the main cause of preventable death in developed
countries. While the direct positive behavioral reinforcing effect of nicotine has historically …

The brain regions and neural processes that underlie addiction overlap extensively with
those that support cognitive functions, including learning, memory, and reasoning. Drug …

Drug addiction continues to be an important public health problem, with an estimated 22.6
million current illicit drug users in the United States alone. For many addictions, including …

Rationale Although there is considerable interest in how either executive function (EF) or
impulsivity relate to addiction, there is little apparent overlap between these research areas …

Importance Interactions of large-scale brain networks may underlie cognitive dysfunctions in
psychiatric and addictive disorders. Objectives To test the hypothesis that the strength of …

Understanding the nature and influence of specific risk profiles is increasingly important for
health behavior promotion. The purpose of this article is to document the value of two factors …