Context The onset of cigarette smoking typically occurs during childhood or early
adolescence. Nicotine dependence symptoms can manifest soon after onset, contributing to …

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) regulate critical aspects of brain maturation
during the prenatal, early postnatal, and adolescent periods. During these developmental …

This paper introduces a theoretical framework that describes the importance of affect in
guiding judgments and decisions. As used here,“affect” means the specific quality of …

The gamble has been to decision research what the fruit fly has been to biology–a vehicle
for examining fundamental processes with presumably important implications outside the …

This paper describes two fundamental modes of thinking. The experiential mode, is intuitive,
automatic, natural, and based upon images to which positive and negative affective feelings …

Adolescence is an important ontogenetic period that is characterized by behaviors such as
enhanced novelty-seeking, impulsivity, and reward preference, which can give rise to an …

We report the development of a new multidimensional questionnaire to measure nicotine
dependence, based on Edwards's syndromal conceptualization of dependence. We present …

A single nicotine exposure increases dopamine levels in the mesolimbic reward system for
hours, but nicotine concentrations experienced by smokers desensitize nAChRs on …

In the past decade waterpipe (WP) smoking (aka hookah, shisha, and narghile) has been
steadily spreading among the youth around the world. The allure of this tobacco use method …

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