Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2020). Results from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed tables. Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://www.samhsa.gov/data...
Sexual abuse of children is disturbingly frequent, making it critical to understand the behavior of sexual offenders against children. The etiology is not well understood, but likely involves biological, cognitive, and personality factors as well as offe
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volumes, with adversity (abuse, neglect, and family stress) These areas also demonstrate significant sex differences in both structure and function into adulthood, and may be related to varying rates of maturation between males and females. Recent findings from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmen- tal ...
Sex differenceshave been well characterised in animal and human studies ofpharmacokineticand pharmacodynamic responses to many substances of abuse, including alcohol, nicotine, andpsychostimulantssuch as cocaine andamphetamine(Becker et al., 2001;Brady and Randall, 1999;Carroll et al., 2004;Lynch et ...
(ii) Male and female juveniles and subadults may have different sensitivities to environmental stressors, such as food and diseases. Sex-biased juvenile mortality may reflect sex-specific life histories that affect, for example, the growth and timing of gonad formation44or dispersal patterns28,45,...
Annabell C.Segarra,Bruce S.McEwen, inMaternal Substance Abuse and the Developing Nervous System, 1992 INTRODUCTION Sexual differentiation is a developmental processes by which genetic sex and gonadal hormones determine the sex of the reproductive tract and various secondary sex characteristics, and influe...
Verbal and physical abuse as stressors in the lives of lesbian, gay male, and bisexual youths: associations with school problems, running away, substance a... A common theme identified in empirical studies and clinical reports of lesbian, gay male, and bisexual youths is the chronic stress tha...
Current drug abuse reviews. 2014;7(1):29–43. Article Google Scholar Rosario M, Schrimshaw EW, Hunter J. Cigarette smoking as a coping strategy: negative implications for subsequent psychological distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths. J Pediatr Psychol. 2011;36(7):731–42. ...
potentially stressful interactions because of their sex). Second, women are twice as likely to experience stress-related disorders (MDD, anxiety, PTSD, obesity (also eating disorders and most phobias)) and more likely to develop them after trauma, physical abuse, or maternal distress during infancy...