No additional compensation was offered for additional time in the study

It remains unknown whether neural abnormalities stimulated by early heavy alcohol use persist throughout the lifespan or revert to normative patterns after periods of short or long-term abstinence. fMRI studies provide a framework for understanding the regions of the brain associated with risky decision-making. The process of making a decision involves three distinct stages: 1)…

Scientific analysis of a rope sample can provide clues to link a suspect to a crime

To identify whether e- and conventional-cigarette use status differentiates level of substance problems among substance ever-users, a supplementary analysis of the three substance problem outcomes was conducted that limited each analysis to ever-users of the respective substance using the same GLMM analytic strategy and covariates as the primary analyses with a continuous outcome distribution specified.…

HIV has been shown to cause significant impairments of varying severity in higher order brain functions

Lower UPSA-2 scores were related to lower education and WRAT-4 scores both in this study and the Blackstone et al. report, but in contrast to that study, our HIV+/ METH+ participants did not have lower education and WRAT-4 scores than the METH− groups, reflecting relatively intact premorbid intellectual functioning, or “cognitive reserve”, in the dually-affected…