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Species | James MacKillopSummaryAffiliation: University of Georgia Country: USA Publications
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Latent structure of facets of alcohol reinforcement from a behavioral economic demand curveJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 203:33-40. 2009..Demand curves provide a multidimensional assessment of reinforcement, but the relationships among the various indices of reinforcement have been largely unstudied...- Alcohol demand, delayed reward discounting, and craving in relation to drinking and alcohol use disordersJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, and Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:106-14. 2010..These findings further emphasize the relevance of behavioral economic indices of motivation to AUDs and the potential importance of craving for alcohol in this relationship... - Delayed reward discounting predicts treatment response for heavy drinkers receiving smoking cessation treatmentJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30677, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 104:197-203. 2009..Interrelationships among the variables assessed and clinical strategies to improve outcomes for smokers who are high in DRD are discussed... - Cigarette demand and delayed reward discounting in nicotine-dependent individuals with schizophrenia and controls: an initial studyJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 216:91-9. 2011..Behavioral economics has been extensively applied to studying addictive behavior and may contribute to understanding smoking in this subpopulation... - Behavioral economic analysis of cue-elicited craving for alcoholJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Addiction 105:1599-607. 2010..The current study tested this hypothesis via a multidimensional assessment of alcohol demand over the course of an alcohol cue reactivity procedure... - Delayed reward discounting and addictive behavior: a meta-analysisJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 216:305-21. 2011..To synthesize the findings across the literature, the current review is a meta-analysis of studies comparing DRD between criterion groups exhibiting addictive behavior and control groups... - A preliminary pharmacogenetic investigation of adverse events from topiramate in heavy drinkersLara A Ray
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:122-9. 2009..Genes underlying glutamatergic neurotransmission, such as the GRIK1 gene, may help predict heterogeneity in topiramate-induced side effects. Future studies in larger samples are needed to more fully establish these preliminary findings... - Moderators of naltrexone's effects on drinking, urge, and alcohol effects in non-treatment-seeking heavy drinkers in the natural environmentJennifer W Tidey
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:58-66. 2008..Polymorphisms in the D4 dopamine receptor (DRD4) gene and the mu-opiate receptor (OPRM1) gene, family history of alcohol problems, age of onset of alcoholism and gender were explored as potential moderators of NTX's effects... - Divergent validity of measures of cognitive distortions, impulsivity, and time perspective in pathological gamblingJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA
J Gambl Stud 22:339-54. 2006..Applications of these findings to etiological research and clinical contexts are discussed... - Effects of a context shift and multiple context extinction on reactivity to alcohol cuesJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 16:322-31. 2008..Methodological aspects of the study and the need for parametric data on the context dependency of extinction to alcohol cues are discussed... - Effects of naltrexone on cortisol levels in heavy drinkersLara A Ray
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Pharmacol Biochem Behav 91:489-94. 2009..These results suggest that naltrexone alters cortisol levels in heavy drinkers and that its effects on subjective responses to alcohol may be related, in part, to naltrexone's ability to activate the HPA-axis... - Further validation of a cigarette purchase task for assessing the relative reinforcing efficacy of nicotine in college smokersJames MacKillop
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 16:57-65. 2008..Theoretical implications of the findings, limitations, and future directions are also discussed... - Effects of topiramate on urge to drink and the subjective effects of alcohol: a preliminary laboratory studyRobert Miranda
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:489-97. 2008..This laboratory study systematically examined the dose-dependent effects of topiramate on cue-elicited craving and other putative mechanisms of its pharmacotherapeutic effects on drinking... - Catching the alcohol buzz: an examination of the latent factor structure of subjective intoxicationLara A Ray
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:2154-61. 2009..The goal of this study was to examine the latent structure among measures of alcohol-induced subjective feelings of intoxication from a behavioral pharmacology perspective... - Subjective responses to alcohol consumption as endophenotypes: advancing behavioral genetics in etiological and treatment models of alcoholismLara A Ray
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Subst Use Misuse 45:1742-65. 2010.... - The dopamine D Receptor (DRD4) gene exon III polymorphism, problematic alcohol use and novelty seeking: direct and mediated genetic effectsLara A Ray
Brown University, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, USA
Addict Biol 14:238-44. 2009..These findings may also help elucidate the specific pathways of risk associated with genetic influences on alcohol use and abuse phenotypes... - Reliability and validity of a demand curve measure of alcohol reinforcementJames G Murphy
Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:396-404. 2009..Demand intensity was uniquely associated with problem drinking in a regression model that controlled for weekly consumption. These results provide support for the reliability and validity of the RRE indices generated with the APT... - A behavioral economic measure of demand for alcohol predicts brief intervention outcomesJames MacKillop
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 89:227-33. 2007..Moreover, these results support the utility of translating experimental assays of reinforcement into clinical research... - Relative reinforcing efficacy of alcohol among college student drinkersJames G Murphy
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 14:219-27. 2006..These results also provide empirical support for programs that attempt to reduce alcohol abuse by eliminating low-cost access to alcohol... - Factor structure of the alcohol urge questionnaire under neutral conditions and during a cue-elicited urge stateJames MacKillop
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1315-21. 2006..This study sought to validate the AUQ's factor structure under neutral conditions and during a cue-elicited urge state in heavy drinkers... - Influence of antisocial and psychopathic traits on decision-making biases in alcoholicsRobert Miranda
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:817-25. 2009..The present study examined the relationship between AD and decision-making, and tested whether different facets of antisocial and psychopathic traits explain this association... - Is talk "cheap"? An initial investigation of the equivalence of alcohol purchase task performance for hypothetical and actual rewardsMichael T Amlung
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:716-24. 2012..A collateral goal of the study was to examine the effects of alcohol cues on APT performance... - Convergent validity of measures of cognitive distortions, impulsivity, and time perspective with pathological gamblingJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 20:75-9. 2006..Applications and limitations of these findings are discussed... - Reactivity to alcohol cues: isolating the role of perceived availabilityJames MacKillop
Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 13:229-37. 2005..This was largely a result of changes in self-reported craving and was interpreted as consistent with the CPM. Alternative methodologies and limitations are discussed...