Gambling disorder is characterized by a persistent, recurrent pattern of gambling that is
associated with substantial distress or impairment. The prevalence of gambling disorder has …

Background: Several behaviors, besides psychoactive substance ingestion, produce short-
term reward that may engender persistent behavior, despite knowledge of adverse …

Loot boxes are items in video games that can be paid for with real-world money but contain
randomized contents. Many games that feature loot boxes are played by adolescents …

Aims Although relationships between addiction and personality have previously been
explored, no study has ever simultaneously investigated the interrelationships between …

BACKGROUND: This study aims to estimate general and racial-ethnic specific cumulative
probability of developing dependence among nicotine, alcohol, cannabis or cocaine users …

Creating a healthy, social classroom environment. This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late …

Crime, smoking, drug use, alcoholism, reckless driving, and many other unhealthy patterns
of behavior that play out over a lifetime often debut during adolescence. Avoiding risks or …

Adolescence is a unique period in neurodevelopment. Alcohol and marijuana use are
common. Recent research has indicated that adolescent substance users show …

To represent the state‐of‐the‐art in an effort to understand the relation between personality
and risk taking, we selected a popular decision task with characteristics that parallel risk …

Aims In anticipation of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM‐V), to consider whether addictive disorders should include non‐substance …