Background and objectives: Despite reductions in prevalence in recent years, tobacco
smoking remains one of the main preventable causes of ill-health and premature death …

Background It is well-established that smoking and depression are associated in
adolescents, but the temporal ordering of the association is subject to debate. Methods …

This chapter provides an update on previous reviews of the epidemiological literature on
childhood and adolescent unipolar depression (Kessler, Avenevoli, & Merikangas, 2001; …

Adolescent nicotine induces persisting changes in development of neural connectivity. A
large number of brain changes occur during adolescence as the CNS matures. These …

Aims To examine the association of adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms with daily
smoking and nicotine dependence in young adulthood. Design A prospective cohort study of …

Although the physiological and psychological mechanisms involved in the development of
sleep disorders remain similar throughout history, factors that potentiate these mechanisms …

The heritability of substance use is moderate to high. Successful efforts to find genetic
variants associated with substance use (smoking, alcohol, cannabis) have been undertaken …

Objectives. We examined sexual orientation differences in adolescent smoking and
intersections with race/ethnicity, gender, and age. Methods. We pooled Youth Risk Behavior …

PURPOSE Youths who smoke are more likely to perceive that cigarettes are easily
accessible, but the relationship between perceived accessibility of cigarettes and the risk of …

The goal of the current study was to compare diathesis-stress and transactional models of
cognitive vulnerability to depression in samples of Canadian (n= 118) and Chinese (n= 405) …