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
Smoking cessation treatment : Pharmacogenetics assessment
Failed retrieving data.Suppressed hostility predicted hypertension incidence among middle-aged men : The normative aging study
Failed retrieving data.The efficacy of moderate intensity exercise as an aid for smoking cessation in women : A randomized controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.The impact of early life stress on psychophysiological, personality and behavioral measures in 740 non-clinical subjects
Failed retrieving data.Adolescents' responses to the gender valence of cigarette advertising imagery : The role of affect and the self-concept
Failed retrieving data.Are stress eaters at risk for the metabolic syndrome?
Failed retrieving data.Bupropion SR for relapse prevention : A "slips-allowed" analysis
Failed retrieving data.Cognitive and affective probes of the HPA axis : a SPECT study.
Failed retrieving data.Comments on "History of depression and smoking cessation outcome : A meta-analysis" (multiple letters)
Failed retrieving data.Depression proneness in treatment-seeking smokers : A taxometric analysis
Failed retrieving data.Developing an integrative social-cognitive strategy for personality assessment at the level of the individual : An illustration with regular cigarette smokers
Failed retrieving data.Do Men and Women Achieve Similar Benefits from Cardiac Rehabilitation?
Failed retrieving data.Do small lapses predict relapse to smoking behavior under bupropion treatment?
Failed retrieving data.Effect of bupropion on depression symptoms in a smoking cessation clinical trial
Failed retrieving data.Effects of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy on Newborn Neurobehavior : Neonatal Nicotine Withdrawal Syndrome [2] (multiple letters)
Failed retrieving data.Effects of tobacco deprivation on alcohol cue reactivity and drinking among young adults
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of bupropion for relapse prevention in smokers with and without a past history of major depression
Failed retrieving data.Ethnic differences in cardiovascular responses to laboratory stress : A comparison between Asian and white Americans
Failed retrieving data.Experimenter-defined quit dates for smoking cessation : Adherence improves outcomes for women but not for men
Failed retrieving data.Gender differences in smoking cessation in a placebo-controlled trial of bupropion with behavioral counseling
Failed retrieving data.Hostility in smokers with past major depressive disorder : Relation to smoking patterns, reasons for quitting, and cessation outcomes
Failed retrieving data.Influence of fluoxetine on positive and negative affect in a clinic-based smoking cessation trial
Failed retrieving data.Investigating the big five personality factors and smoking : Implications for assessment
Failed retrieving data.Neural and endocrine correlates of sadness in women : Implications for neural network regulation of HPA activity
Failed retrieving data.Olanzapine attenuates cue-elicited craving for tobacco
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