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| Warren K BickelSummaryAffiliation: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Country: USA Publications
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Hypothetical intertemporal choice and real economic behavior: delay discounting predicts voucher redemptions during contingency-management proceduresWarren K Bickel
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Addiction Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 18:546-52. 2010....
Behavioral and neuroeconomics of drug addiction: competing neural systems and temporal discounting processesWarren K Bickel
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Center for Addiction Research, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 90:S85-91. 2007..e., the "impulsive system"). Temporal discounting provides a useful framework for future imaging research, and suggests a novel approach to designing effective drug dependence prevention and treatment programs...- Congruence of BOLD response across intertemporal choice conditions: fictive and real money gains and lossesWarren K Bickel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA
J Neurosci 29:8839-46. 2009.... - Remember the future: working memory training decreases delay discounting among stimulant addictsWarren K Bickel
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Addiction Research, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Biol Psychiatry 69:260-5. 2011..Excessive discounting of future rewards has been observed in a variety of disorders and has been linked both to valuation of the past and to memory of past events... - A review of computer-based interventions used in the assessment, treatment, and research of drug addictionWarren K Bickel
Center for Addiction Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Subst Use Misuse 46:4-9. 2011..Moreover, computer-based interventions are compatible with a recently proposed biological mechanism implicated as the basis for drug addiction... - Cigarette smokers discount past and future rewards symmetrically and more than controls: is discounting a measure of impulsivity?Warren K Bickel
Center for Addiction Research, Fred and Louise Dierks Research Laboratories, Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 West Markham Street, Slot 843, Little Rock, AR 72205, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 96:256-62. 2008..These included: hyperbolic discounting, greater discounting of small-magnitude outcomes than large-magnitude outcomes, and greater discounting by cigarette smokers relative to non-smokers... - Computerized behavior therapy for opioid-dependent outpatients: a randomized controlled trialWarren K Bickel
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 16:132-43. 2008.... - The behavioral economics of drug dependence: towards the consilience of economics and behavioral neuroscienceWarren K Bickel
Center for Addiction Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Curr Top Behav Neurosci 3:319-41. 2010..We conclude by addressing the next research steps that these advances engender... - Delay of smoking gratification as a laboratory model of relapse: effects of incentives for not smoking, and relationship with measures of executive functionEldon T Mueller
Center for Addiction Research, Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA
Behav Pharmacol 20:461-73. 2009..Results are discussed as they relate to contingency-management procedures, predictors of relapse, and the competing neurobehavioral decision systems theory of addiction... 
Comparison of pharmacological treatments for opioid-dependent adolescents: a randomized controlled trialLisa A Marsch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:1157-64. 2005..The prevalence of heroin and other opioid use has markedly increased among adolescents in the last decade; however, virtually no research has been conducted to identify effective treatments for this population...- The relationship between temporal discounting and the prisoner's dilemma game in intranasal abusers of prescription opioidsRichard Yi
Center for Addiction Research, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 WestMarkham Street, 843, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 87:94-7. 2007.... - Buprenorphine medication versus voucher contingencies in promoting abstinence from opioids and cocaineMohit P Chopra
Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:226-36. 2009..Findings should be interpreted in light of the greater attrition associated with medication-based contingencies versus the greater monetary costs of voucher-based contingencies... - Delay discounting predicts adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomeCatherine Stanger
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 20:205-12. 2012..g., targeting executive function or inhibitory control) and/or different schedules of reinforcement to address their degree of preference for immediate rewards... - A comparison of two algorithms in computerized temporal discounting proceduresBenjamin P Kowal
Center for Addiction Research, Fred and Dierk s Research Laboratories, Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Behav Processes 75:231-6. 2007..However, the interpretation of findings from individual studies is probably not strongly affected by the use of different computer algorithms... - The short of it: abbreviating the temporal discounting procedureRichard Yi
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 18:366-74. 2010..The proposed abbreviated procedure is likely to be particularly useful when time constraints or participant fatigue is a concern as well as in repeated-measures contexts... - Probability discounting among cigarette smokers and nonsmokers: molecular analysis discerns group differencesRichard Yi
Center for Addiction Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Behav Pharmacol 18:633-9. 2007..Rate of smoking may also be an important factor, with differences more likely observed when heavy smokers are enrolled... - The anatomy of risk: a quantitative investigation into injection drug users' taxonomy of risk attitudes and perceptionsLisa A Marsch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 15:195-203. 2007..Identifying improved methodologies for evaluating the risk perceptions of IDUs may be of considerable utility in understanding their high-risk behavior... - The combined effects of delay and probability in discountingRichard Yi
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Behav Processes 73:149-55. 2006..The present paper offers a novel statistical method, within an established framework, for the analysis of data from studies of discounting that combine delay and probability... - Temporal horizons of cigarette satiety: determining the window of time over which recent smoking influences motivation to smokeBenjamin P Kowal
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Department of Psychology, Little Rock, AR 72204 1099, USA
Behav Pharmacol 19:339-46. 2008..In addition, we suggest that the quantitative description of satiety provided by our procedures may validate drug replacement therapies involved in cessation treatments... - Analytical methods to detect within-individual changes in discountingReid D Landes
Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 18:175-83. 2010..By providing more precise population estimates, this approach increases statistical power over traditional analytic methods... - Temporal horizon: modulation by smoking status and genderBryan A Jones
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Addiction Research, Little Rock, AR 72205 7199, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 104:S87-93. 2009..A possible explanation for these results is explored, and the implications of the modulation of temporal horizon by gender and smoking are discussed... - Mild opioid deprivation increases the degree that opioid-dependent outpatients discount delayed heroin and moneyLouis A Giordano
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 163:174-82. 2002..Little is known, however, about how drug deprivation may affect temporal discounting of delayed rewards by drug-dependent individuals... - Delay discounting in currently using and currently abstinent cocaine-dependent outpatients and non-drug-using matched controlsSarah H Heil
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, USA
Addict Behav 31:1290-4. 2006..These data replicate previous work in cocaine-dependent and other substance abusers compared to non-drug-using controls and suggest that a longer period of abstinence may be required to modify discounting in this population... - Buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence: the relative efficacy of daily, twice and thrice weekly dosingLisa A Marsch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 77:195-204. 2005.... - Future altruism: Social discounting of delayed rewardsRichard Yi
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
Behav Processes 86:160-3. 2011..These results are discussed in the context of some existing literature on altruism... - Substitutes for tobacco smoking: a behavioral economic analysis of nicotine gum, denicotinized cigarettes, and nicotine-containing cigarettesMatthew W Johnson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 38 Fletcher Place, Burlington, VT 05401 1419, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 74:253-64. 2004..Furthermore, these findings indicate that alternative reinforcement would be most effective in smoking cessation treatment when combined with high prices for cigarettes... - Within-subject comparison of real and hypothetical money rewards in delay discountingMatthe W Johnson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington 05401 1419, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 77:129-46. 2002..A hyperbolic decay model described the data better than an exponential model... - Discounting of past outcomesRichard Yi
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205 7199, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 14:311-7. 2006..Past discounting may be of use in the study of drug-dependent and other impulsive populations. Implications of a relationship between future and past discounting are discussed... - Risk-sensitive foraging theory elucidates risky choices made by heroin addictsWarren K Bickel
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, USA
Addiction 99:855-61. 2004..The relevance of this behavioral process to risky choices of opioid-dependent patients is examined in this study... - Relationship between cooperation in an iterated prisoner's dilemma game and the discounting of hypothetical outcomesRichard Yi
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Learn Behav 33:324-36. 2005..Correlations between rate of probability-discounting and cooperation rate in a repeated prisoner's dilemma game versus neither a tit-for-tat nor a random strategy were significant... - Temporal discounting as a measure of executive function: insights from the competing neuro-behavioral decision system hypothesis of addictionWarren K Bickel
Center for Addiction Research, Fred and Louis Dierks Research Laboratories Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res 20:289-309. 2008.... - Delay discounting decreases in those completing treatment for opioid dependenceReid D Landes
Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 20:302-9. 2012..Though we failed to find any relationship among discounting measures and abstinence outcomes, the results from this large study suggest that treatment for substance dependence promotes decreases in delay discounting... - An initial trial of a computerized behavioral intervention for cannabis use disorderAlan J Budney
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 115:74-9. 2011.... - Discounting of delayed health gains and losses by current, never- and ex-smokers of cigarettesAmy L Odum
Department of Psychiatry, University of New Hampshire, Conant Hall, 10 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824 3567, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 4:295-303. 2002..Cigarette smokers show rapid loss of value for delayed health outcomes, emphasizing the need for smoking-cessation treatments that provide relatively immediate consequences for abstinence... - Delay discounting in current and never-before cigarette smokers: similarities and differences across commodity, sign, and magnitudeForest Baker
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:382-92. 2003..Current smokers' delay discount rates for monetary outcomes, however, were higher than never-before smokers across all magnitudes and both signs. This trend was also found for delayed health outcomes, but failed to reach significance... - Efficacy of computer-based HIV/AIDS education for injection drug usersLisa A Marsch
University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry, Burlington, VT, USA
Am J Health Behav 28:316-27. 2004..To compare computer-delivered to therapist-delivered HIV/AIDS education among opioid-dependent, injection drug-users (IDUs)... - Predictors of internalizing and externalizing problems among children of cocaine and opiate dependent parentsCatherine Stanger
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 1 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401 3456, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 66:199-212. 2002..For drug dependent fathers, family problems were an independent predictor of children's problems... - Clinical and translational research: introduction to the special issueEdward V Nunes
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 10:155-8. 2002.... - A scale-free systems theory of motivation and addictionR Andrew Chambers
Lab for Translational Neuroscience of Dual Diagnosis and Development, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Indiana University School of Medicine, 791 Union Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 31:1017-45. 2007..This model may inform integrative research in defining more effective prevention and treatment strategies for addiction... - Altered states: the impact of immediate craving on the valuation of current and future opioidsGary J Badger
Biometry Facility, University of Vermont, VT, USA
J Health Econ 26:865-76. 2007..Under-appreciation of craving by non-addicts may contribute to initial decisions to experiment with drugs... - An algorithm for identifying nonsystematic delay-discounting dataMatthew W Johnson
Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224 6823, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 16:264-74. 2008..The algorithm may be used in empirical investigations to improve discounting methodology, and may be used to identify outliers to be removed from analyses... - Replacing relative reinforcing efficacy with behavioral economic demand curvesMatthew W Johnson
University of Vermont, USA
J Exp Anal Behav 85:73-93. 2006..The demand curve analysis illustrates why concordance between traditional measures is expected under some experimental conditions but not others... - Moderate drug use and delay discounting: a comparison of heavy, light, and never smokersMatthew W Johnson
Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224 6823, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 15:187-94. 2007..These data suggest that even moderate levels of drug use may be associated with high delay discounting levels... - Simulated opioid withdrawal engenders risk-prone choice: a comparison of intravenous and intranasal-using populationsAri P Kirshenbaum
Animal Behavior Laboratory, Psychology Department, Saint Michael s College, 1 Winooski Park, Colchester, VT 05439, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 83:130-6. 2006..The DEB rule is applicable to opioid dependence and provides a useful framework from which to examine the behaviors associated with opioid withdrawal... - Decision-making in state lotteries: half now or all of it later?Forest Baker
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:965-70. 2003..These findings suggest that real-world choices involving large sums of money may be subject to diminishing marginal utility and probability and delay discounting... - A comparison between low-magnitude voucher and buprenorphine medication contingencies in promoting abstinence from opioids and cocaineAnke Gross
Department of General Psychiatry, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 14:148-56. 2006..95 and 2.90, respectively). Results suggest that the use of medication-based contingencies in combination with behavioral therapy in promoting drug abstinence may have clinical utility. Limitations of the study are discussed... - What came first? Comment on Dom et al. (2006)Warren K Bickel
Addiction 101:291-2; author reply 293-4. 2006 - Response: Still room to improve an effective treatmentWarren K Bickel
Sci Pract Perspect 3:32-3. 2005 - Application of interactive, computer technology to adolescent substance abuse prevention and treatmentLisa A Marsch
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, National Development and Research Institutes, 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA
Adolesc Med State Art Rev 18:342-56, xii. 2007....
Research Grants
- IMPROVING COMBINED BUPRENORPHINE-BEHAVIORAL TREATMENTWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, this project will contribute positively to this region's public health by providing a substantial portion of all outpatient pharmacotherapy services for opioid dependence in the State of Vermont. ..
- BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF DRUG CHOICEWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Delay Discounting in Drug DependenceWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2006..We will extend that work by determining whether the decrease in discounting reverses when cigarette smokers relapse. ..
- The Behavioral Economics of RelapseWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- IMPROVING COMBINED BUPRENORPHINE-BEHAVIORAL TREATMENTWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2009..Finally, this project will contribute positively to this region's public health by providing a substantial portion of all outpatient pharmacotherapy services for opioid dependence in the State of Vermont. ..
- The Behavioral Economics of RelapseWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Executive Function Therapy for Stimulant AddictionWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2009..These addictions, particularly methamphetamine, represent a significant public health crisis that this study could positively impact. ..
- Executive Function Therapy for Stimulant AddictionWarren K Bickel; Fiscal Year: 2010..These addictions, particularly methamphetamine, represent a significant public health crisis that this study could positively impact. ..
- The Behavioral Economics of RelapseWarren K Bickel; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Executive Function Therapy for Stimulant AddictionWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2009..These addictions, particularly methamphetamine, represent a significant public health crisis that this study could positively impact. ..
- IMPULSIVITY IN DRUG DEPENDENCE--DELAY DISCOUNTINGWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..
- IMPROVING COMBINED BUPRENORPHINE-BEHAVIORAL TREATMENTWARREN BICKEL; Fiscal Year: 2004..Finally, by providing the only outpatient pharmacotherapy services for opioid dependence in the State of Vermont, this project will contribute positively to this region's public health. ..
- Inter-Temporal Trade-offs in the Risky Decisions of Cocaine AddictsP Read Montague; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Delay Discounting in Drug DependenceRichard Yi; Fiscal Year: 2007..We will extend that work by determining whether the decrease in discounting reverses when cigarette smokers relapse. ..