Christophe Romein

We think that adolescents and young adults rely more on feedback of their peers during social situations where the drinking norm is more ambiguous such as social non-alcohol drinking situations (SNAD).

Presenting the findings of our latest preprint on social attunement and alcohol use today at @ecnp.eu !

Our findings indicate that age moderates the link between social attunement and alcohol use, but only in situations where alcohol is not present.

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We refer to this paradox as the social plasticity model of risk and resilience (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). We are currently conducting a longitudinal MRI study in adolescents and young adults to further investigate this paradox (nofaresearch.com/en/research-...).

We hypothesise that adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing substance use disorders. At the same time, we suggest that some of the risk factors commonly linked to adolescent onset of substance use may serve as protective factors later in early adulthood.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to give a lecture in the clinical psychology master's program at the @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social in the addiction course about how addictive behaviours are manifested in the brain and why adolescence is such an interesting period of life to study!

Decoding the neural correlates of social cognition and emotion recognition in cannabis users: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies Social factors significantly influence the initiation and progression of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder. Although cannabis is the most widely …

Our systematic review focusing on cannabis use, social cognition, emotion recognition, and neuroimaging recently got published!

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Our team recently moved from the Clinical Psychology team to Brain and Cognition team at the @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social !

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