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

Adolescence is a time of major plasticity of brain systems that regulate motivated behavior
and cognition, and is also the age of peak onset of nicotine use. Although there has been a …

Developmental periods such as gestation and adolescence have enhanced plasticity
leaving the brain vulnerable to harmful effects from nicotine use. Proper brain maturation …

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 …

THE TEENAGE BRAIN Page 1 What Might Surprise You About THE TEENAGE BRAIN The
Teenage Brain A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults By …

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

While the health risks associated with adult cigarette smoking have been well described,
effects of nicotine exposure during periods of developmental vulnerability are often …

Tobacco smoking results in more than five million deaths each year and accounts for∼ 90%
of all deaths from lung cancer. Nicotine, the major reinforcing component of tobacco smoke …

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 …

Adaptation of the nervous system to different chemical and physiologic conditions is
important for the homeostasis of brain processes and for learning and remembering …