The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirical effort to address
limitations of traditional mental disorder diagnoses. These include arbitrary boundaries …

Most substance abusers simultaneously use and abuse more than one substance, even
when there is a clear drug of choice. This pattern creates a great challenge in relating …

The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has been used to study decision-making differences in many
different clinical and developmental samples. It has been suggested that IGT performance …

Similar to patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC) lesions, substance abusers
show altered decision-making, characterized by a tendency to choose the immediate …

Rationale The majority of drug abusers are incapable of sustaining abstinence over any
length of time. Accumulating evidence has linked intense and involuntary craving, Impulsive …

Several studies have shown alterations in different components of executive functioning in
users of different drugs, including cannabis, cocaine and heroin. However, it is difficult to …

Decision-making consists of selecting an action from a set of available options. This results
in an outcome that changes the state of the decision-maker. Therefore, decision-making is …

Cognitive impairments in substance use disorders have been extensively researched,
especially since the advent of cognitive and computational neuroscience and neuroimaging …

Abstract Clinical trials on Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training (DBT-ST) as a stand-
alone intervention for alcohol use disorder (AUD) showed promising outcomes …

Decision-making deficits are a robust cognitive correlate of substance abuse, but few studies
have addressed the long-term differential associations of cocaine use and marijuana (MJ) …