{"id":13058,"date":"2026-08-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:49:12","slug":"new-publication-in-communications-medicine-a-cumulative-polyexposure-score-to-predict-early-adolescent-substance-use-based-on-environmental-exposures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/new-publication-in-communications-medicine-a-cumulative-polyexposure-score-to-predict-early-adolescent-substance-use-based-on-environmental-exposures\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in Communications Medicine: A cumulative polyeXposure score to predict early adolescent substance use based on environmental exposures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothea Toulopoulou and colleagues have published \u201cA cumulative polyeXposure score to predict early adolescent substance use based on environmental exposures\u201d in Communications Medicine (August 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paper-summary\">Using data from 9,771 young people in the US Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, the researchers built a score that sums up environmental exposures linked to early substance use, such as youth behaviors, the home environment, and peer and community influences. The score predicted the timing of first substance use better than family history or a genetic risk score. It could help identify young people at higher risk early enough for prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Faith Adams, Sarah Abdelaziz, Zihan Zhang, Jonathan Ahern, Yixuan He, Timothea Toulopoulou, Chun Chieh Fan, Iliyan Ivanov, Sophia Frangou, Wesley Kurt Thompson, Chirag J. Patel, Muhammad A. Parvaz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43856-026-01799-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothea Toulopoulou and colleagues have published \u201cA cumulative polyeXposure score to predict early adolescent substance use based on environmental exposures\u201d in Communications Medicine (August 2026). Using data from 9,771 young people in the US Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, the researchers built a score that sums up environmental exposures linked to early substance use, such\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}