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Addressing the specificity of affective startle modulation: fear versus disgustAndrew R Yartz
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Park Hall Box 604110, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110, USA
Biol Psychol 59:55-68. 2002..These findings limit the generalizability of corrugator as an index of all negative emotions and extend evidence for the specificity of levator to disgust...
The effects of extended pre-quit varenicline treatment on smoking behavior and short-term abstinence: a randomized clinical trialL W Hawk
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
Clin Pharmacol Ther 91:172-80. 2012..35%). Although these data suggest that extension of varenicline treatment reduces smoking during the pre-quit period and may further enhance cessation rates, confirmatory evidence is needed from phase III clinical trials...- Craving and startle modification during in vivo exposure to food cuesLarry W Hawk
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Park Hall Box 604110, Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
Appetite 43:285-94. 2004..The goal of this study was to assess the utility of these paradigms for the study of food craving in food-deprived participants... - Affective modulation and prepulse inhibition of startle among undergraduates high and low in behavioral inhibition and approachLarry W Hawk
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260 4110, USA
Psychophysiology 40:131-8. 2003..The present data call attention to the role of individual differences in pleasant affective experience in startle modification... - The effects of methylphenidate on prepulse inhibition during attended and ignored prestimuli among boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderLarry W Hawk
Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Park Hall Box 604110, Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 165:118-27. 2003.... - Influence of a monetary incentive upon attentional modification of short-lead prepulse inhibition and long-lead prepulse facilitation of acoustic startleLarry W Hawk
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14260 4110, USA
Psychophysiology 39:674-7. 2002..This study demonstrates that attentional modification of short-lead prepulse inhibition is sensitive to a monetary incentive and provides a basis for further examination of motivational effects on early attentional processing... - Attentional modification of short-lead prepulse inhibition and long-lead prepulse facilitation of acoustic startle among preadolescent boysLarry W Hawk
Psychophysiology 39:333-9. 2002..Overall, this study extended prior work in adults and provided a basis for further study of controlled attentional modification of startle in children... - Methylphenidate enhances prepulse inhibition during processing of task-relevant stimuli in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderRebecca L Ashare
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York 14260 4110, USA
Psychophysiology 47:838-45. 2010..These data fit with the clinical literature on ADHD and the hypothesis that MPH enhances interference control for important environmental stimuli... - Dopamine transporter genotype as a risk factor for obesity in African-American smokersLeonard H Epstein
Department of Pediatrics and Sports Medicine Institute, University at Buffalo School of Medicine, New York 14214, USA
Obes Res 10:1232-40. 2002..To assess the association between a polymorphism related to dopamine function, dopamine transport (SLC6A3), and obesity in smokers... - The effects of nicotine on the attentional modification of the acoustic startle response in nonsmokersJoseph S Baschnagel
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 198:93-101. 2008..This study used the startle eyeblink reflex to assess nicotine effects on auditory attention in nonsmokers... - Stimulant treatment reduces lapses in attention among children with ADHD: the effects of methylphenidate on intra-individual response time distributionsSarah V Spencer
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Park Hall, Box 604110, Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:805-16. 2009..The improvement in variability with stimulant treatment is interpreted as a reduction in lapses in attention. This, in turn, may reflect stimulant enhancement of self-regulatory processes theorized to be at the core of ADHD... - Effects of methylphenidate on discounting of delayed rewards in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorderKeri Shiels
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 17:291-301. 2009..The results also draw attention to task parameters that may influence the sensitivity of various delay discounting measures to medication effects... - Subjective effects of transdermal nicotine among nonsmokersRebecca L Ashare
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 18:167-74. 2010..Future work should examine both contextual and personality moderators in large samples of participants who are exposed to nicotine through multiple routes of administration... - Self-regulation in ADHD: the role of error processingKeri Shiels
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 30:951-61. 2010..The emerging literature on error-processing and adaptive control informs etiological theories of ADHD in general and may provide a method for testing self-regulation models in particular... - Relation between food reinforcement and dopamine genotypes and its effect on food intake in smokersLeonard H Epstein
Departments of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14214 3000, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:82-8. 2004..Food reinforcement and dopaminergic activity may influence food consumption, but research on whether they interact has not been performed... - Food hedonics and reinforcement as determinants of laboratory food intake in smokersLeonard H Epstein
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York, Farber Hall, Room G56, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
Physiol Behav 81:511-7. 2004..In conclusion, energy intake in smokers in a laboratory setting is more strongly related to food reinforcement than to the hedonic ratings of food... - Habituation of salivation and motivated responding for food in childrenLeonard H Epstein
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Farber Hall, Room G56, 3435 Main Street, Building 26, Buffalo, NY 14214 3000, USA
Appetite 41:283-9. 2003..These results are consistent with the general process theory of motivation that suggests that changes in food reinforced responding may be due in part to habituation... - Motivated attention and prepulse inhibition of startle in rats: using conditioned reinforcers as prepulsesJoseph S Baschnagel
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
Behav Neurosci 121:1372-82. 2007..A fourth study eliminated the group difference by reversing the CS-water contingency. Methodological and motivational hypotheses regarding the current findings are discussed... - Motivated attention: incentive effects on attentional modification of prepulse inhibitionRebecca L Ashare
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
Psychophysiology 44:839-45. 2007..These data suggest that attentional modification of PPI is sensitive to within-subjects manipulations of incentive, providing a useful tool for testing models of motivated attention in psychopathology and psychopharmacology... - College students' expectancies for light cigarettes and potential reduced exposure productsRICHARD J O'CONNOR
Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
Am J Health Behav 31:402-10. 2007..To determine positive and negative beliefs about light cigarettes and potential reduced exposure products (PREPs) among college student smokers and non-smokers... 
Post-trauma symptoms following indirect exposure to the September 11th terrorist attacks: the predictive role of dispositional copingJoseph S Baschnagel
University at Buffalo, Department of Psychology, NY, USA
J Anxiety Disord 23:915-22. 2009..The role of coping style in the development of PTSD symptomatology and its clinical implications are discussed...- The effects of incentives on visual-spatial working memory in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderKeri Shiels
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Park Hall, P O Box 604110, Buffalo, NY 14260 4110, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:903-13. 2008..Possible explanations for the differential incentive effects are discussed, including the possibility that incentives prevented a vigilance decrement as task difficulty and time on task increased... - Comparing smoking behaviors and exposures from flavored and unflavored cigarettesRICHARD J O'CONNOR
Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
Addict Behav 32:869-74. 2007..Overall, these preliminary data suggest that adding flavors to cigarettes may not significantly impact how they are smoked by current smokers... - Concurrent quit & win and nicotine replacement therapy voucher giveaway programs: participant characteristics and predictors of smoking abstinenceLarry W Hawk
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 12:52-9. 2006..Both the Quit & Win and NRT voucher giveaway programs were effective in recruiting smokers to make a quit attempt, although combining both interventions did not generally increase abstinence rates... - Smoking expectancies for flavored and non-flavored cigarettes among college studentsRebecca L Ashare
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Addict Behav 32:1252-61. 2007..These findings suggest that targeting the marketing of positive attributes may be useful in preventing smoking behavior... - CYP2B6 genotype alters abstinence rates in a bupropion smoking cessation trialAnna M Lee
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, 1 King s College Circle Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biol Psychiatry 62:635-41. 2007..Genetic polymorphisms in CYP2B6, such as CYP2B6*6, can alter bupropion metabolism and may affect bupropion treatment outcome... - Recurrent event analysis of lapse and recovery in a smoking cessation clinical trial using bupropionE Paul Wileyto
University of Pennsylvania, Tobacco Use Research Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104 3309, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 7:257-68. 2005..Further research disentangling lapse and recovery events from summary abstinence measures is needed to help us develop interventions that take advantage of bupropion at its best and that compensate where it is weak...
Research Grants
- Pre-Cessation Effects of Bupropion on SmokingLarry Hawk; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- Inhibitory control and clinical response in ADHDLarry Hawk; Fiscal Year: 2007..This work will pave the way for a new generation of translational research and theory in ADHD. ..
- Inhibitory control and clinical response in ADHDLarry Hawk; Fiscal Year: 2009..This work will pave the way for a new generation of translational research and theory in ADHD. ..