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 …

In 2020, the World Health Organization formally recognized addiction to digital technology
(connected devices) as a worldwide problem, where excessive online activity and internet …

Adolescents are commonly portrayed as highly emotional, with their behaviors often
hijacked by their emotions. Research on the neural substrates of adolescent affective …

Cigarette smoking is often initiated during adolescence and an earlier age of onset is
associated with worse health outcomes later in life. Paradoxically, the transition towards …

This study investigated the potential mediating roles of resilience and social support in the
relationship between stress and life satisfaction. A total of 426 individuals, who have …

Cigarette smoking and alcohol use are among the most prevalent substances used
worldwide and account for a substantial proportion of preventable morbidity and mortality …

Addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder, in that most addicted individuals who choose to
quit taking drugs fail to maintain abstinence in the long-term. Relapse is especially likely …

Introduction Craving, involving intense and urgent desires to engage in specific behaviours,
is a feature of addictions. Multiple studies implicate regions of salience/limbic networks and …

The present article provides a historical review of the place and response learning plus-
maze tasks with a focus on the behavioral and neurobiological findings. The article begins …

Importance Recent research on addiction-related memory processes suggests that
protracted extinction training following brief cue-elicited memory retrieval (ie, retrieval …