Abstract. Background: In recent years, new neurocognitive explanatory approaches such as dual-process theories offer significant progress in understanding long-term relapse in substance use disorders. Based on such explanatory concepts stemming from basic ...

Abstract. Aim Repeated drug use can lead to attentional bias and approach tendencies, which are thought to play an important role in problematic substance use and dependence. The aims of the current study were to 1) test an attentional retraining ...

Abstract. Aims: This study examined whether alcohol-related interpretation biases (IBs) can be reduced by means of cognitive bias modification – interpretation (CBM-I) training. Also, the training’s generalization effects and the moderating role of ...

Abstract. Study Aim: Alcohol abuse despite awareness of objective risks remains an inexplicable phenomenon in alcohol-addicted people (AP). We aimed to evaluate the contribution of the “accuracy hypothesis“ and the “...

Abstract. Aims:This study investigates the role of the attended school type and school wellbeing for adolescent smoking and further examines for the first time, ...

Abstract. Aim: This paper will demonstrate that alcohol abstinence has a beneficial effect on liver function and survival in all types of ...