Raymond S Niaura
Raymond S Niaura
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Dr. Raymond Niaura is a psychologist and an expert on tobacco dependence and treatment, as well as substance use and addiction to alcohol. Dr. Niaura researches the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories. He also evaluates behavioral and pharmacological treatments for tobacco cessation, with a particular interest in cessation in disadvantaged population to address public health disparities in tobacco-related burdens of illness and disability.
For eight year, Dr. Niaura was the Director of Science and Training at the Schroeder Institute (SI) for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative, where he also supervised the pre- and post-doctoral training programs. Dr. Niaura has previously taught and conducted research at Brown University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Georgetown Medical Center, and the School of Public Health at University of Maryland. He was also a former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and is a Deputy Editor of the Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
With grants from the National Institutes of Health, numerous foundations, and private industry, Dr. Niaura has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, and book chapters, including the book The Tobacco Dependence Treatment Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices.
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Education
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BA, Psychology (First Class Honors), McGill University, Montreal, CanadaMS, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJPhD, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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Honors and awards
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Research Laureate, American Academy of Health Behavior (2009)University Scholar Award, McGill University (1979)
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Areas of research and study
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Driving PoliciesEvaluationsHealth DisparitiesSubstance AbuseTobacco Control
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Publications
Publications
Comment on “A single factor underlies the metabolic syndrome: a confirmatory factor analysis” by Plavedall and colleagues
Failed retrieving data.Early life stress and adult emotional experience : An international perspective
Failed retrieving data.Early Life Stress and Morphometry of the Adult Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Caudate Nuclei
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of naltrexone in smoking cessation : A preliminary study and an examination of sex differences
Failed retrieving data.Elevated positive mood : A mixed blessing for abstinence
Failed retrieving data.Erratum : Efficacy of varenicline, an α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist, vs placebo or sustained-release bupropion for smoking cessation: A randomized controlled trial (Journal of the American Medical Association (2006) 296 (56-63))
Failed retrieving data.Estimating genetic and environmental influences on depressive symptoms in adolescence : Differing effects on higher and lower levels of symptoms
Failed retrieving data.Fresh from the pipeline : Varenicline
Failed retrieving data.Hostility and urine norepinephrine interact to predict insulin resistance : The VA normative aging study
Failed retrieving data.Internet- vs. Telephone-administered questionnaires in a randomized trial of smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.Links between physical fitness and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to psychological stressors : A meta-analysis
Failed retrieving data.Nicotine replacement therapy : Patterns of use after A quit attempt among methadone- maintained smokers
Failed retrieving data.Posttraumatic stress disorder and late-onset smoking in the Vietnam Era Twin Registry
Failed retrieving data.Role of functional genetic variation in the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) in response to bupropion and nicotine replacement therapy for tobacco dependence : Results of two randomized clinical trials
Failed retrieving data.A twin registry study of the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and nicotine dependence in men
Failed retrieving data.A twin-sibling study of tobacco use in adolescence : Etiology of individual differences and extreme scores
Failed retrieving data.Combined effect of the metabolic syndrome and hostility on the incidence of myocardial infarction (The Normative Aging Study)
Failed retrieving data.Comparative efficacy of rapid-release nicotine gum versus nicotine polacrilex gum in relieving smoking cue-provoked craving
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of motivation to quit smoking in methadone-maintained smokers enrolled in a smoking cessation trial
Failed retrieving data.Differences between Latino and non-Latino White smokers in cognitive and behavioral characteristics relevant to smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.Improving understanding of sibling effects on adolescent smoking : Response to the commentaries
Failed retrieving data.Prevalence of depressive disorders in men and women enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation
Failed retrieving data.Recurrent event analysis of lapse and recovery in a smoking cessation clinical trial using bupropion
Failed retrieving data.Sibling effects on smoking in adolescence : Evidence for social influence from a genetically informative design
Failed retrieving data.Sibling effects on substance use in adolescence : Social contagion and genetic relatedness
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