Open AccessRisks Versus Consequences of Adolescent and Young Adult Substance Use: a Focus on Executive Control
Author(s) -
Mónica Luciana
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
current addiction reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 2196-2952
DOI - 10.1007/s40429-020-00341-9
Subject(s) - psychology , cognitive flexibility , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , cognition , vulnerability (computing) , flexibility (engineering) , neuroimaging , substance abuse , executive dysfunction , clinical psychology , psychiatry , neuropsychology , paleontology , statistics , computer security , mathematics , computer science , biology
This review examines the role of executive control processes in the liability for substance misuse and whether substance use, once initiated, leads to subsequent decrements as proposed by neurotoxicity models of substance use disorder (SUD).