Research into the comorbidity between emotional psychopathology and cigarette smoking
has often focused upon anxiety and depression's manifest symptoms and syndromes, with …

The field of behavioral economics has made important inroads into the understanding of
substance use disorders through the concept of reinforcer pathology. Reinforcer pathology …

Behavioral economic demand analyses that quantify the relationship between the
consumption of a commodity and its price have proven useful in studying the reinforcing …

Background Nicotine receptor partial agonists may help people to stop smoking by a
combination of maintaining moderate levels of dopamine to counteract withdrawal …

This review critically examines neurobehavioral theoretical developments in decision
making in addiction in the 21st century. We specifically compare each theory reviewed to …

Objective To determine the risk of neuropsychiatric adverse events associated with use of
varenicline compared with placebo in randomised controlled trials. Design Systematic …

Abstract Background and Aims Reinforcing value, an index of motivation for a drug, is
commonly measured using behavioral economic purchase tasks. State‐oriented purchase …

Development of new treatments for drug addiction will depend on high-throughput screening
in animal models. However, an addiction biomarker fit for rapid testing, and useful in both …

Background Va** cessation is virtually unexplored. The efficacy and safety of varenicline
for va** cessation has not been studied and rigorous research is required to advance best …

Background Psychological stress and alcohol cues are common antecedents of both
ongoing drinking and relapse. One candidate mechanism of risk from these factors is acute …