Aims Addiction has been conceptualized as a shift from controlled experimentation to
uncontrolled, compulsive patterns of use. Current neurobiological models of addiction …

Obesity is a major public health problem and notoriously difficult to treat. There are many
parallels between obesity/overeating and addictions to alcohol and drugs. This paper …

Impulsivity and compulsivity are transdiagnostic features associated with clinically relevant
aspects of psychiatric disorders, including addictions. However, little research has …

Building on the conclusions of the debate papers by Gola et al.(2022) and Sassover and
Weinstein (2022), the present commentary further addressed the contradictions between the …

OBJECTIVE: Diagnostic criteria for binge eating disorder (BED) appear in Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition as “criteria for further study.” Few …

The main aim of this article is to investigate whether there is a significant long-term
association between bullying at school and drug use later in life. A meta-analysis is …

A large percentage of individuals who enter residential substance abuse treatment drop out
before completing treatment. Given that early treatment dropout places individuals at an …

Personality dimensions such as novelty seeking (NS), harm avoidance (HA), reward
dependence (RD) and persistence (PER) are said to be heritable, stable across time and …

Impulse control is becoming a critical survival skill for the twenty-first century. Impulsivity is
implicated in virtually all externalizing behaviours and disorders, and figures prominently in …

Chronic consumption of several drugs of abuse (cannabis, stimulants, opioids) has been
associated with the presence of neuropsychological impairments in a broad range of …