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Medworm Addiction Updated : Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:50:34 MST Methadone maintenance: making it better Addiction Volume 102, Issue 3, Page 350-351, Mar 2007. (Source: Addiction) Publ.Date : Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:03:26 +0100 Genes, time to first cigarette and nicotine dependence in a general population sample of young adults Addiction Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???. (Source: Addiction) Publ.Date : Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:48:27 +0100 Relation of physiological reactivity and perceived coping to substance use disorders. Related Articles Relation of physiological reactivity and perceived coping to substance use disorders. Addict Behav. 2007 Mar;32(3):608-16 Authors: Bobadilla L, Taylor J We examined the interaction between a form of subjective emotional reactivity (perceived coping) and physiological reactivity in relation to risk for substance use disorders. Skin conductance responses to unpredictable white noise blasts were collected from 110 men and women who also rated their perceived coping to the blasts and underwent semi-structured interviews to assess psychiatric symptoms. Reported inability to cope in conjunction with low skin conductance reactivity were related to higher symptom counts of alcohol and cannabis use disorders as well as antisocial personality disorder symptoms. The findings highlight the potential importance of the interface between cognitive/emotional and physiological processes as they relate to risk for substance use disorders and perhaps other externalizing disorders. PMID: 16879927 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Addictive Behaviors) Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0100 Smoking cues in a virtual world provoke craving in cigarette smokers. Twenty smoking-deprived cigarette smokers participated in a study to test the ability of smoking cues within a virtual world to provoke self-reported craving to smoke. Participants were exposed to 2 virtual-reality simulations displayed on a computer monitor: a control environment not containing any intentional smoking stimuli and a cue-exposure environment containing smoking stimuli. At various points, participants rated their urge to smoke on a scale of 0-100. Results indicated that baseline urge ratings were equivalent in both conditions, but the maximum increase in urge ratings was significantly higher in the cue-exposure environment than in the control environment. This is comparable to what in vivo studies have reported, but with the advantage of simulating more naturalistic and complex settings in a controlled environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors) Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:06:00 +0100 Association of alcohol craving with α-synuclein (snca) Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???-???. (Source: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research) Publ.Date : Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:39:15 +0100