The impaired response inhibition and salience attribution (iRISA) model proposes that
impaired response inhibition and salience attribution underlie drug seeking and taking. To …

Putting feelings into words, or “affect labeling,” can attenuate our emotional experiences.
However, unlike explicit emotion regulation techniques, affect labeling may not even feel like …

The loss of control over drug intake that occurs in addiction was initially believed to result
from disruption of subcortical reward circuits. However, imaging studies in addictive …

Depression affects around 4–10% of the general population in England. Depression can
often lead to behaviors and thoughts related to suicide and aggression, which have a social …

Methamphetamine (MA) is a highly addictive psychostimulant drug that principally affects the
monoamine neurotransmitter systems of the brain and results in feelings of alertness …

Recent concepts of addiction to drugs (eg cocaine) and non-drugs (eg gambling) have
proposed that these behaviors are the product of an imbalance between three separate, but …

We review the literature on aggression in women with an emphasis on laboratory
experimentation and hormonal and brain mechanisms. Women tend to engage in more …

Aggressive behavior in patients with psychiatric disorders is attracting increasing research
interest. One reason for this is that psychiatric patients are generally considered more likely …

Despite aggressive efforts to contain it, methamphetamine use disorder continues to be
major public health problem; and with generic behavioral therapies still the mainstay of …

Alexithymia has been associated with substance use, but the magnitude of the association
has not been evaluated and sub‐group differences, if any, are unknown. The aim of this …