Selected Publications

Brebner, K., Childress, A.R., and Roberts, D.C.S. : A potential role for GABA B agonists in the treatment of psychostimulant addiction. Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism 37(5): 478-484, 2002.

Cornish, J.W; Herman, B.H.; Ehrman, R.N.; Robbins, S.J.; Childress, A.R.; Bead, V.; Esmonde, C. A.; Martz, K.; Poole, S.; Caruso, F. S; O'Brien, C.P. : A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled safety study of high-dose dextromethor-phan in methadone-maintained male inpatients. Drug & Alcohol Dependence 67(2): 177-183, 2002.

Franklin, T.R., Acton, P., Maldjian, J., Gray, J.D., Croft, J.R., O’Brien, C.P., and Childress, A.R. : Decreased gray matter density in the insular, orbitofrontal, cingulate and temporal cortices of cocaine patients. Biological Psychiatry 51: 131-142, 2002.

Childress, A.R., Franklin, T., Listerud, J., Acton, P., and O’Brien, C.P. : Neuroimaging of cocaine craving states: Cessation, stimulant administration, and drug cue paradigms. Neuropsychopharmacology: Fifth Generation of Progress Page: 1575-1590, 2002.

Langleben, D., Schroeder, L., Gur, R., Maldjian, J., McDonald, S., O’Brien, C.P, and Childress, A.R.: Brain activity during simulated deception: an event-related functional magnetic resonance study. NeuroImage 15: 727-732, 2002.

Monterosso, J., Ehrman, R., Napier, K., O’Brien, C.P., and Childress, A.R. : Three decision-making tasks: do they measure the same construct? Addiction 96: 1825-1837, 2002.

Brody, A., Mandelkern, M.A., London, E.D., Childress, A.R., Bota, R.G., Ho, B.S., Less, G.S., Saxena, S., Baxter, L., Madsen, D., and Jarvik, M.E. : Brain metabolic changes in cigarette craving. Archives of General Psychiatry 59: 1162-1172, 2002.

Childress, A.R.: Using PET to image the neuroanatomical and neurochemical substrates of cue-induced cocaine craving. APA 2002 Symposium, “Brain Substrates of Addiction” Neuroimaging as Tool of choice in the 21st Century”. (Dr. Childress is also organizer and Co-chair of the Symposium). 2002.

Childress, A. R., Wang, J., Monterosso, J., Gray. J, Fornash, A., Poston,J., Listerud, J., Franklin, T., Langleben, D., and O'Brien, C.P.: What happens in the brain when patients attempt to inhibit (“STOP!) cue-induced drug craving? Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Quebec City, Canada. 2002.

O’Brien, C.P. and Childress, A.R.: Craving in human addicts. Abstract for presentation at the XIV World Congress of Pharmacology 2002.