Adolescence encompasses a sensitive developmental period of enhanced clinical
vulnerability to nicotine, tobacco, and e‐cigarettes. While there are sociocultural influences …

Over the past decade, many studies have indicated that adolescence is a critical period of
brain development and maturation. The refinement and maturation of the central nervous …

Background: Current tobacco treatment guidelines have established the efficacy of available
interventions, but they do not provide detailed guidance for common implementation …

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) regulate critical aspects of brain maturation
during the prenatal, early postnatal, and adolescent periods. During these developmental …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Currently, the US Food and Drug Administration does not
regulate electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) marketing unless it is advertised as a smoking …

The brain regions and neural processes that underlie addiction overlap extensively with
those that support cognitive functions, including learning, memory, and reasoning. Drug …

Given the rise in teenage use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (“vaping”) in
congruence with the increasing numbers of drug-related emergencies, it is critical to expand …

Studies using animal models of adolescent exposure to alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and
the stimulants cocaine, 3, 4-methylenedioxymethampethamine and methamphetamine have …

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 …

More than 70% of adolescents report to have smoked a cigarette at least once. At the
adolescent stage the brain has not completed its maturation. The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the …