While researchers have long spotlighted the role childhood abuse, poverty, and substance use play in human development, Virginia Tech’s Jungmeen Kim-Spoon is pulling back the curtain on what ...

Jungmeen said that despite the well-documented connection between adverse experiences and the development of mental health disorders, the lack of available information on exactly how adolescents ...

Adolescent substance use is a significant predictor of future addiction and related disorders. Understanding neural mechanisms underlying substance use initiation and frequency during adolescence is ...

Lead investigator Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, PhD, Department of Psychology and School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, says, "Beginning to use substances at a young age can significantly increase the risk ...

Insights from a new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging can play an important role in early prevention and intervention Lead investigator Jungmeen Kim ...

"Jungmeen and I get to tackle thorny problems while pursuing answers to questions that matter for promoting healthier youth development," Deater-Deckard said. "Our team utilizes state-of-the-art ...

While researchers have long spotlighted the role childhood abuse, poverty, and substance use play in human development, Virginia Tech's Jungmeen Kim-Spoon is pulling back the curtain on what ...

While researchers have long spotlighted the role childhood abuse, poverty, and substance use play in human development, Virginia Tech’s Jungmeen Kim-Spoon is pulling back the curtain on what actually ...

said lead researcher Jungmeen Kim-Spoon at the department of psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US. Researchers followed 91 teenagers for seven years. Mental processes ...