Adolescent binge drinking has been associated with higher risks for the development of many health problems throughout the lifespan. Adolescents undergo multiple changes that involve the co-development processes of brain, ...

Despite the fact that most theories of reasoning agree on the main role played by limitations in WM capacity in reasoning performance, little research has been directed to elucidate how the executive processes that deal ...

Drugs of abuse produce widespread effects on the structure and function of neurons throughout the brain's reward circuitry, and these changes are believed to underlie the long-lasting phenotypes that characterize addiction. ...

Trait disinhibition, a clinical-liability construct, has well-established correlates in the diagnostic, self-rating, task-behavioral, and brain potential response domains. Recently, studies have begun to test for neuroimaging ...

While psychotic experiences (PEs) are assumed to represent psychosis liability, general population studies have not been able to establish significant associations between polygenic risk scores (PRS) and PEs. Previous work ...

This study investigated the prevalence of disordered eating cognitions and behaviours across mid-adolescence in a large European sample, and explored the extent to which prevalence ratings were affected by informant ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a very powerful tool for localising psychological functions to specific brain areas. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in determining the functional differences ...

Human behaviour, though appearing seamless, is comprised of a number of differing and interacting cognitive processes. In this dissertation I attempted to establish the anatomical networks subserving a number of different ...

Drugs of addiction are widely considered to induce a pathological state which involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behaviour, the decreased and slowed ability to respond to naturally ...