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
Current models of nicotine dependence : What is known and what is needed to advance understanding of tobacco etiology among youth
Failed retrieving data.Does the five factor model of personality apply to smokers? A preliminary investigation
Failed retrieving data.Does the five factor model of personality apply to smokers? A preliminary investigation
Failed retrieving data.Hostility and the metabolic syndrome in older males : The Normative Aging Study
Failed retrieving data.Human immunodeficiency virus infection, AIDS, and smoking cessation : The time is now
Failed retrieving data.Measuring nicotine dependence among youth : A review of available approaches and instruments
Failed retrieving data.Methods to enhance smoking cessation after myocardial infarction
Failed retrieving data.Smoking among emergency chest pain patients : Motivation to quit, risk perception and physician intervention
Failed retrieving data.Smoking withdrawal dynamics in unaided quitters
Failed retrieving data.The effects of smoking high nicotine cigarettes on prepulse inhibition, startle latency, and subjective responses
Failed retrieving data.The measurement of drug craving
Failed retrieving data.A simple laboratory method for inducing anger : A preliminary investigation
Failed retrieving data.Acceptability of computer assessments among ethnically diverse, low- income smokers
Failed retrieving data.Binge eating, body image, depression, and self-efficacy in an obese clinical population
Failed retrieving data.Comments on Carter and Tiffany's 'Meta-analysis of cue-reactivity in addiction research'
Failed retrieving data.Cue exposure treatment for smoking relapse prevention : A controlled clinical trial
Failed retrieving data.Effects of D1 dopamine receptor agonists on oral ethanol self- administration in rats : Comparison with their efficacy to produce grooming and hyperactivity
Failed retrieving data.Effects of naltrexone with nicotine replacement on smoking cue reactivity : Preliminary results
Failed retrieving data.History and symptoms of depression among smokers during a self-initiated quit attempt
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Failed retrieving data.Lipid reactivity to stress : I. Comparison of chronic and acute stress responses in middle-aged airline pilots
Failed retrieving data.Lipid reactivity to stress : II. Biological and behavioral influences
Failed retrieving data.Quality of life and anxiety in a phase II cardiac rehabilitation program
Failed retrieving data.Reflections on the state of cue-reactivity theories and research
Failed retrieving data.Smoking cues decrease prepulse inhibition of the startle response and increase subjective craving in humans
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