Nicotine usage by mothers throughout pregnancy has been observed to relate to numerous
deleterious effects in children, especially relating to obesity. Children who have prenatally …

The mesocorticolimbic (MCL) system is crucial in developing risky health behaviors which
lead to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Although there is some …

Since 1990, when our laboratory published the association of the DRD2 Taq A1 allele and
severe alcoholism in JAMA, there has been an explosion of genetic candidate association …

Background Previous research has outlined the health benefits of exercise including its
therapeutic potential for substance use disorders (SUD). These data have already been …

Introduction Exercise addiction is a phenomenon being able to affecting the athletic
performance. The gene, ANKK1 and the polymorphism NM_178510. 2: c. 2137G> A …

Abstract Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) and ankyrin repeat and kinase domain‐containing
protein 1 (ANKK1) genes have received considerable attention for their involvement in …

Background: Approximately 25–50% of people diagnosed with substance use disorder
experience psychiatric disorders, and this percentage is even higher if subclinical …

The number of people who suffer from a substance abuse disorder has continued to rise
over the last decade; particularly, the number of drug-related overdose deaths has sharply …

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with group A streptococcal
infections (PANDAS) is a concept that is used to characterize a subset of children with …

The study aims at looking into associations between the polymorphism rs6276 that occurs in
the putative miRNA target site in the 3′ UTR region of the DRD2 gene in patients with …