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 during pregnancy and newborn neurobehavior
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Failed retrieving data.The Modified Reasons for Smoking Scale : Factorial structure, gender effects and relationship with nicotine dependence and smoking cessation in French smokers
Failed retrieving data.The Smoking Effects Questionnaire for adult populations : Development and psychometric properties
Failed retrieving data.The tobacco dependence treatment handbook: A guide to best practices
Failed retrieving data.Adolescents' reactions to the imagery displayed in smoking and antismoking advertisements
Failed retrieving data.Applying genetic approaches to the treatment of nicotine dependence
Failed retrieving data.Bupropion for pharmacologic relapse prevention to smoking - Predictors of outcome
Failed retrieving data.Depressive symptoms and readiness to quit smoking among cigarette smokers in outpatient alcohol treatment
Failed retrieving data.Differentiating stages of smoking intensity among adolescents : Stage-specific psychological and social influences
Failed retrieving data.Does 'unlearning' ever really occur : Comment on Conklin & Tiffany [1]
Failed retrieving data.Effects of gender on relapse prevention in smokers treated with bupropion SR
Failed retrieving data.Hostility, the metabolic syndrome, and incident coronary heart disease
Failed retrieving data.Mediating mechanisms for the impact of bupropion in smoking cessation treatment
Failed retrieving data.Multicenter trial of fluoxetine as an adjunct to behavioral smoking cessation treatment
Failed retrieving data.Negative mood, depressive symptoms, and major depression after smoking cessation treatment in smokers with a history of major depressive disorder
Failed retrieving data.Patterns of change in depressive symptoms during smoking cessation : Who's at risk for relapse?
Failed retrieving data.Pharmacogenetic investigation of smoking cessation treatment
Failed retrieving data.Physician recruitment for a community-based smoking cessation intervention.
Failed retrieving data.Response to social stress, urge to smoke, and smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.Smoking cessation : Progress, priorities, and prospectus
Failed retrieving data.The DRD4 VNTR polymorphism influences reactivity to smoking cues
Failed retrieving data.The effect of bupropion sustained-release on cigarette craving after smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.The effects of controlled smoking on heart period variability : Investigating possible development of short-term tolerance using spectral analysis
Failed retrieving data.A content analysis of smoking craving
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