This article selectively reviews research concerning nicotine's effects on cognition, including
the neurobiological mechanism for these effects, task and experimental features that may be …

Craving for alcohol is common among alcohol-dependent people. Accordingly, measures to
assess craving can play important roles in alcohol research as well as in alcoholism …

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 ISBRA Meeting in
Yokohama, Japan. The co‐chairs were Karl Mann and Ingrid Agartz. The presentations were …

A 32‐item questionnaire on smoking urges was administered to 230 daily cigarette smokers
assigned to one of three levels of cigarette deprivation (0, 1 or 6 hours). Factor analyses …

Background Functional imaging studies have recently demonstrated that specific brain
regions become active in cocaine addicts when they are exposed to cocaine stimuli. To test …

Background The Food and Drug Administration can set standards that reduce the nicotine
content of cigarettes. Methods We conducted a double-blind, parallel, randomized clinical …

This study investigated the impact of the effective content of imagery scripts used in an
imagery paradigm designed to elicit smoking urges in a laboratory setting. Sixty cigarette …

Although the high comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use
disorders has been firmly established, no laboratory-based studies have been conducted to …

This experiment assessed reactivity to imaginal and in vivo smoking and control cues. One
hundred current smokers were assessed during 2 sessions separated by a 6-hr interval, and …

Rationale There has been little study of the very early time course of the smoking withdrawal
syndrome, despite its relevance to the maintenance of both smoking and postcessation …