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| Antonio VerdejoSummaryAffiliation: University of Granada Country: Spain Publications
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[Alterations in the decision making processes linked to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in drug-abusing patients]A Verdejo
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicologia, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Espana
Rev Neurol 38:601-6. 2004..Several studies using the GT in substance abusers have showed the existence of decision making impairments in these patients...- Neuropsychological functioning in methadone maintenance patients versus abstinent heroin abusersAntonio Verdejo
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Drug Alcohol Depend 78:283-8. 2005..Effect sizes for significant comparisons ranged from 0.67 to 1. These results seem to suggest that methadone consumption by itself induces significant cognitive impairments that could compromise drug-treatment outcomes in MMP... 
The role of interoception in addiction: a critical reviewAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Clinical Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience F Olóriz, University of Granada, Granada, Spain Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36:1857-69. 2012..Clinical implications are discussed...- Self-regulation and treatment retention in cocaine dependent individuals: a longitudinal studyA Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Drug Alcohol Depend 122:142-8. 2012..We aimed to explore the association between baseline executive functioning and treatment outcome in Therapeutic Communities (TCs)... - [Clinical neuropsychology in perspective: future challenges based on current developments]Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Espana
Rev Neurol 54:180-6. 2012.... - Substance abusers' self-awareness of the neurobehavioral consequences of addictionAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Depto Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Psychiatry Res 158:172-80. 2008..Severity of alcohol and cocaine abuse significantly predicted poorer self-awareness during drug abuse, but not during abstinence. These results may have important implications for prevention and treatment strategies... - Psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the UPPS-P impulsive behavior scale: reliability, validity and association with trait and cognitive impulsivityAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
J Pers Assess 92:70-7. 2010..We conclude that the Spanish adaptation of the UPPS-P scale is a useful instrument for fine-grained assessment of impulsivity in Spanish-speaking adult population... - Selective alterations within executive functions in adolescents with excess weightAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1572-8. 2010..Moreover, regression models showed a significant association between BMI and flexibility performance. These results are indicative of selective alterations of particular components of executive functions in overweight adolescents... - Impact of severity of drug use on discrete emotions recognition in polysubstance abusersMaría José Fernández-Serrano
Dept Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Drug Alcohol Depend 109:57-64. 2010..Severity of cocaine use also significantly predicted overall recognition accuracy... - Impulsivity and executive functions in polysubstance-using rave attendersAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 210:377-92. 2010..The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive assessment of different aspects of impulsivity and executive functions in a sample of polysubstance-using rave attenders... - [Neuropsychology of executive functions]Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Psicothema 22:227-35. 2010.... - Profile of executive deficits in cocaine and heroin polysubstance users: common and differential effects on separate executive componentsAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s n, 18071, Granada, Spain
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 190:517-30. 2007..Additionally, we contrasted performance of polysubstance users with preference for cocaine vs heroin and controls to explore possible differential effects of the main substance abused on executive impairment... - Executive dysfunction in substance dependent individuals during drug use and abstinence: an examination of the behavioral, cognitive and emotional correlates of addictionAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:405-15. 2006..Cognitive, behavioral, and emotional measures were moderately correlated... - Cognitive impulsivity in cocaine and heroin polysubstance abusersAntonio J Verdejo-García
Dept Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja, S N, 18071 Granada, Spain
Addict Behav 32:950-66. 2007..These deficits are prominent in different domains associated with cognitive impulsivity, including response inhibition and decision-making. The extent and nature of these deficits may depend on the principal substance of abuse... - [The impact exerted by the severity of recreational drug abuse on the different components of the executive function]A Verdejo
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Rev Neurol 38:1109-16. 2004..A number of neuropsychological studies have shown the relationship between severity of drug abuse and the executive functioning of substance abusers, along with its negative impact on treatment results... - Clinical implications and methodological challenges in the study of the neuropsychological correlates of cannabis, stimulant, and opioid abuseAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Neuropsychol Rev 14:1-41. 2004..We also highlight the convenience of intervening in those functions most relevant to the abusers' persistence in consumption and risk of relapse... - Differential effects of MDMA, cocaine, and cannabis use severity on distinctive components of the executive functions in polysubstance users: a multiple regression analysisAntonio J Verdejo-García
Clinical Psychology Department, University of Granada, Spain
Addict Behav 30:89-101. 2005..Metabolic reorganization of monoamine frontal-subcortical pathways after drug exposure are proposed as possible explanations for these impairments... - Effects of executive impairments on maladaptive explanatory styles in substance abusers: clinical implicationsAntonio Verdejo García
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Facultad de Psicología Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s n, 18071, Granada, Spain
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 20:67-80. 2005..These results are partially congruent with the learned helplessness model and particularly relevant for the clinical management of substance abusers and the success on the treatment and rehabilitation of these subjects... - Differential impact of severity of drug use on frontal behavioral symptomsAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Addict Behav 31:1373-82. 2006..These clinical symptoms should be specifically addressed during rehabilitation... - Altered adaptive but not veridical decision-making in substance dependent individualsAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:90-9. 2006..Both tasks were only correlated when no impaired participants were selected. Results indicate that SA show abnormal decision-making performance in unstructured situations, but not in veridical situations... - Strategic self-regulation, decision-making and emotion processing in poly-substance abusers in their first year of abstinenceAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Granada, Campus de Cartuja s n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Drug Alcohol Depend 86:139-46. 2007..These results suggest that the evaluation of emotion, self-regulation and decision-making contributes greatly to the characterization of the persistent deficits exhibited by ISD during prolonged abstinence... - Dysregulation of emotional response in current and abstinent heroin users: negative heightening and positive bluntingFrancisco Aguilar de Arcos
Dept Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 198:159-66. 2008..In this paper, we will assess the subjective response of current and abstinent heroin users exposed to emotionally competent positive and negative stimuli... - Neuropsychological consequences of alcohol and drug abuse on different components of executive functionsMaría José Fernández-Serrano
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja, S N, 18071 Granada, Spain
J Psychopharmacol 24:1317-32. 2010.... - Prevalence of executive dysfunction in cocaine, heroin and alcohol users enrolled in therapeutic communitiesMaría José Fernández-Serrano
Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamiento Psicologico, Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja, S N, 18071 Granada, Spain
Eur J Pharmacol 626:104-12. 2010.... - Ecological assessment of executive functions in substance dependent individualsAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Institute of Neurosciences F Oloriz, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Drug Alcohol Depend 90:48-55. 2007..Conversely, we found no differences between groups on the WCST. Furthermore, the BADS (but not the WCST) predicted everyday problems related to apathy, disinhibition, and executive dysfunction... 
A somatic marker theory of addictionAntonio Verdejo-Garcia
Department of Clinical Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Neuropharmacology 56:48-62. 2009....- [Guidelines for the scientific and professional development of forensic neuropsychology]A Verdejo
Departamento de Personalidad, , Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Rev Neurol 39:60-73. 2004..This development should be anchored in the application of specific scientific, professional, and academic strategies... - Detection of malingering in a Spanish population using three specific malingering testsRaquel Vilar-Lopez
Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Universitario, Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 22:379-88. 2007..These tests appeared to function adequately in this Spanish population, who showed similar performances to results published for North Americans...