PUBLICATIONS

Original Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

Strong, D. R., Kahler, C. W., Leventhal, A. M., Abrantes, A. M., Richardson, E. E., Niaura, R., & Brown, R. A. (in press).  Impact of bupropion and CBT for depression on positive affect, negative affect, and urges to smoke during cessation treatment.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

Kahler, C.W., Leventhal, A.M., Colby, S.M., Gwaltney, C.J., Kamarck, T.W., & Monti, P.M. (in press). Hostility, cigarette smoking, and responses to a lab-based social stressor. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Leventhal, A. M. (in press).  Do individual differences in reinforcement smoking moderate the relationship between affect and urge to smoke?  Behavioral Medicine.

Ray, L.A., Mackillop, J., Leventhal, A. M., & Hutchison, K. E. (in press).  Catching the alcohol buzz: An examination of the latent factor structure of subjective intoxication.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Leventhal, A. M., Waters, A. J., Kahler, C. K., Ray, L.A., & Sussman, S. (2009).  Relations between anhedonia and smoking motivation.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 11(9), 1047-1054.

Ray, L.A., Hutchison, K. E., Leventhal, A. M., Miranda, R. Jr., Francione, C., Chelminski, I., Young, D. & Zimmerman, M. (2009).  Diagnosing alcohol abuse in alcohol dependent individuals: Diagnostic and clinical implications.  Addictive Behaviors, 34(6-7), 587-592.

Kahler, C.W., Spillane, N. S., Metrik, J., Leventhal, A. M., Monti, P. M. (2009).  Sensation seeking as a predictor of treatment compliance and smoking cessation treatment outcomes in heavy social drinkers.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 93(3), 285-90.

Kahler, C. W., Daughters, S., & Leventhal, A. M., Rogers, M. L., Clark, M. A., Colby, S. M., Boergers, J., Ramsey, S. E., Abrams, D. B., Niaura, R., Buka, S. L. (2009).  Personality, psychiatric disorders, and smoking in middle aged adults.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research,11(7), 833-41.

Kahler, C. W., Spillane, N.S., Leventhal, A. M., Strong, D. R., Brown, R. A., & Monti, P. M. (2009).  Hostility and smoking cessation treatment outcome in heavy social drinkers.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23(1), 67-76.

Leventhal, A. M., Kahler, C.W., Ray, L.A., & Zimmerman, M. (2009).  Refining the nicotine dependence-depression link: Patterns of depressive symptoms in psychiatric patients with current, past, and no history of nicotine dependence.  Addictive Behaviors, 34(3), 279-303.

Leventhal, A. M., Francione Witt, C., & Zimmerman, M. (2008).  Associations between depression subtypes and substance use disorders.  Psychiatry Research, 161(1), 43-50.

Leventhal, A. M., Waters, A. J., Breitmeyer, B.G., Miller E. K., Tapia E., & Li, Y. (2008).  Subliminal processing of smoking-related and affective stimuli in tobacco addiction.  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 16(4), 301-312.

Leventhal, A. M., Pettit, J. W., & Lewinsohn, P. M. (2008).  Characterizing major depression phenotypes by presence and type of psychomotor disturbance in adolescents and young adults.  Depression & Anxiety, 25(7), 575-592.

Leventhal, A. M., Kahler, C. W., Ray, L. A., Stone, K., Young, D., Chelminski, I., & Zimmerman, M. (2008).  Anhedonia and amotivation in psychiatric outpatients with fully remitted stimulant use disorder.  The American Journal on Addictions, 17(3), 218-223.

Leventhal, A. M., Lewinsohn, P. M., & Pettit, J. W. (2008).  Prospective relations between melancholia and substance use disorders.  The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 34(3), 259-267.

Leventhal, A. M., Ramsey, S. E., Brown, R. A., LaChance, H. A., & Kahler, C. W. (2008). Dimensions of depressive symptoms and smoking cessation.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 10(3), 507-517.

Leventhal, A. M., Waters, A. J., Boyd, S., Moolchan, E. T., Heishman, S. J., Lerman, C., & Pickworth, W. (2007).  Associations between Cloninger’s temperament dimensions and acute tobacco withdrawal.  Addictive Behaviors, 32(12), 2976-2989.

Kahler, C. K., Daughters, S. B., Leventhal, A. M., Gwaltney, C. J., & Palfai, T. P. (2007).  Implicit associations between smoking and social consequences among smokers in cessation treatment.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45(9), 2066-2077.

Ray, L.A., Miranda, R. Jr., Kahler, C. W., Leventhal , A. M., Monti, P. M., Swift, R., & Hutchison, K.E. (2007). Pharmacological effects of naltrexone and intravenous alcohol on craving for cigarettes among light smokers: A pilot study.  Psychopharmacology, 193(4), 449-456.

Leventhal, A. M., Martin, R. L., Seals, R. W., Tapia, E., & Rehm, L. P. (2007).  Investigating the dynamics of affect: Psychological mechanisms of affective habituation to pleasurable stimuli.  Motivation and Emotion, 31(2), 145-157.

Leventhal, A. M., Waters, A. J., Boyd, S., Moolchan, E. T., Lerman, C., & Pickworth, W. B. (2007).  Gender differences in acute tobacco withdrawal: Effects on subjective, cognitive, and physiological measures.  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15(1), 21-36.

Leventhal, A. M., Chasson, G. S., Tapia, E., Miller, E. K., & Pettit, J. W. (2006).  Measuring hedonic capacity in depression: A psychometric analysis of three anhedonia scales.  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(12), 1545-1558.

Leventhal, A. M., & Schmitz, J. M. (2006).  The role of drug use outcome expectancies in substance abuse risk: An interactional-transformational model.  Addictive Behaviors, 31(11), 2038-2062.

Leventhal, A. M., Mooney, M. E., DeLaune, K. A., & Schmitz, J. M. (2006).  Using addiction severity profiles to differentiate among cocaine-dependent patients with and without comorbid major depression.  The American Journal on Addictions, 15(5), 362-369.

Mooney, M. E., Leventhal, A. M., & Hatsukami, D. (2006). Attitudes and knowledge about nicotine and nicotine replacement therapy.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 8(3), 435-446.

Leventhal, A. M., & Rehm, L. P. (2005).  The empirical status of melancholia: Implications for psychology.  Clinical Psychology Review, 25(1), 25-44.

 

Book chapters and other invited publications:

Kahler, C. W., Leventhal, A.M., & Brown, R. A. (2009). Behavioral interventions in smoking cessation. In A.W. Graham, T.K. Schultz, M.F. Mayo-Smith, R.K. Ries, & B.B. Wilford (Eds.), Principles of addiction medicine (4th. ed.). Arlington, VA: American Society of Addiction Medicine, pp. 803-818.

Leventhal, A. M. (2007).  Clinical insights from research on gender differences in tobacco withdrawal.  The Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application, 26(10), 8.

Leventhal, A. M., & Kahler, C. W.  (2006).  Guidelines for nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation.  US Pharmacy Review 2006, http://www.touchbriefings.com/pdf/1895/Contents.pdf

Waters, A. J., & Leventhal, A. M. (2006).  The clinical relevance of implicit cognition in addiction.  In M. Munafo & I. Albery (Eds.): Cognition and Addiction.  London: Oxford University Press, pp. 249-278.

Leventhal, A. M. (2006).  Distress tolerance treatments for substance abuse.  Psychotherapy Bulletin, 41(3), 7-10.

Leventhal, A. M. (2004).  Virtual reality approaches to addiction treatment.  Psychotherapy Bulletin, 39(1), 23-25.

Leventhal, A. M. (2003).  Reactions to Segal, Williams, and Teasdale’s mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression.  Psychotherapy Bulletin, 38(2), 30-32.

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