Adolescence is a developmental period when physical and cognitive abilities are optimized,
when social skills are consolidated, and when sexuality, adolescent behaviors, and frontal …

Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

The prevailing view in the field of adolescent brain development is that heightened activity in
the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system serves as a liability, orienting adolescents …

Conditioned place preference (CPP) continues to be one of the most popular models to
study the motivational effects of drugs and non‐drug treatments in experimental animals …

Adolescence is a period of increased behavioral and psychiatric vulnerabilities. It is also a
time of dramatic structural and functional neurodevelopment. In recent years studies have …

Adolescence is an evolutionarily conserved developmental phase characterized by
hormonal, physiological, neural and behavioral alterations evident widely across …

Adolescence is a time of significant neural and behavioral change with remarkable
development in social, emotional, and cognitive skills. It is also a time of increased …

The adolescent transition is associated with increases in reward-and sensation-seeking,
peer-directed social interactions, and risk-taking, with exploratory use of alcohol and other …

Adolescence is characterized by heightened reward sensitivity. Accumulating evidence
suggests that this behavior is associated with neurodevelopmental changes in reward …

Rationale Research on adolescence and drug abuse increased substantially in the past
decade. However, drug-addiction-related behaviors following stressful experiences during …