Background and aims The ability to regulate emotions effectively has been associated with
resilience to psychopathology. Individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) have been …

Background This review aims to identify whether risky decision-making is increased in
substance users, and the impact of substance type, polysubstance use status, abstinence …

Psychological understandings and individualistic theories of human behaviour and
behaviour change have dominated both academic research and interventions at the …

Introduction: This paper reports results from a preliminary observational study of ayahuasca-
assisted treatment for problematic substance use and stress delivered in a rural First Nations …

Previous results point towards a lateralization of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)
function in risky decision making. While the right hemisphere seems involved in inhibitory …

Background: Many studies have examined factors associated with the first onset of cannabis
use and abuse. Currently, there is relatively little research regarding conditions under which …

Chronic stress is an established risk factor in the development of addiction. Addiction is
characterized by a progressive transition from casual drug use to habitual and compulsive …

Although altered function in neural reward circuitry is widely proposed in models of
addiction, more recent conceptual views have emphasized the role of disrupted response in …

Heroin is highly addictive drug that users use in spite of its negative consequences. Many
research on drug dependence, persistence and relapse confirmed that there is a …

Emotion is a “double-edged sword” that can either enhance or hinder various aspects of our
cognition and behavior. For instance, the emotional charge of an event can increase …