The Influence of Risk and Protective Factors on Adolescent Alcohol, Cannabis, and Electronic Cigarette Use.

The misuse of substances by adolescents is a serious public health concern in the United States, and the three most used substances by adolescents are alcohol, cannabis, and electronic cigarettes. In accordance with the Social Development Model, a better understanding of the risk and protective factors across these three substances can assist in predicting potential substance use as well as strategies for prevention. The purpose of the current study is to examine the similar or differential influence that a specific set of risk and protective factors (i.

Generalizing treatment outcomes to externalizing behaviors for Latino/a adolescents with substance use disorders: A secondary analysis.

Objective: Substance use treatment for adolescents may decrease not only substance use, but also other related outcomes such as externalizing behaviors. Although positively correlated to substance use in youth, externalizing behaviors are not commonly measured as outcomes in the context of substance use treatment. This study seeks to generalize the outcomes of substance use treatment to externalizing behaviors in a sample of Latino/a adolescents who participated in a randomized clinical trial.

Cortical Networks for Correcting Errors in Sensorimotor Synchronization Depend on the Direction of Asynchrony.

Recent work provides clues that different cortical mechanisms may be employed when correcting for errors in sensorimotor synchronization that increase tap-tone asynchrony compared with those that decrease it. The authors tested this hypothesis by recording 64-channel electroencephalography while participants synchronized with an auditory metronome. We systematically introduced positive and negative phase-shift perturbations that were either liminal (10%) and subliminal (3%).