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

This chapter begins with a summary of the initial findings on the effects of insula lesions on
smoking behavior as well as more recent human‐lesion studies that replicate and extend …

Background Air pollution exposure during fetal life has been related to impaired child
neurodevelopment, but it is unclear if brain structural alterations underlie this association …

Aims Deficits in behavioural inhibitory control are attracting increasing attention as a factor
behind the development and maintenance of substance dependence. However, evidence …

Addictions are often characterized as forms of impulsive behavior. That said, it is often noted
that impulsivity is a multidimensional construct, spanning several psychological domains …

Craving is recognized as an important diagnosis criterion for substance use disorders
(SUDs) and a predictive factor of relapse. Various methods to study craving exist; however …

In the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5),
gambling disorder was recategorized from the “Impulse Control Disorder” section to the …

With the obesity epidemic being largely attributed to overeating, much research has been
aimed at understanding the psychological causes of overeating and using this knowledge to …

Background The aim of this paper is to investigate the causality of the inverse association
between cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease (PD). The main suggested alternatives …

Impulsive behavior is implicated in the initiation, maintenance, and relapse of drug-seeking
behaviors involved in drug addiction. Research shows that changes in impulsive behavior …