selected scholarly activity
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chapters
- Relating neural processing of reward and loss prospect to risky decision-making in individuals with and without gambling disorder. 97-113. 2021
- Human Laboratory Paradigms in Addictions Research. 62-72. 2020
- Positive Mood States and Gambling Disorder. 366-379. 2019
- Chapter 8 Reward processing in food addiction and overeating. 217-249. 2019
- Reward processing in food addiction and overeating. 217-249. 2019
- Imaging the Gambling Brain. Methods in Neurosciences. 111-124. 2016
- LABORATORY MEASURES OF RISK-TAKING: RELEVANCE TO PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING. 43-54. 2010
- The Biology and Treatment of Pathological Gambling. 617-631. 2010
- Cannabis Use Disorder
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conferences
- THE NEUROECONOMICS OF ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 109A-109A. 2022
- YOUNG ADULTS VS. ADULTS IN AN OUTPATIENT CONCURRENT DISORDERS PROGRAM: DIFFERENCES IN ALCOHOL & SUBSTANCE USE, PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITIES, MOTIVATION, & IMPULSIVITY. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 234A-234A. 2022
- Food addiction in a large non-clinical sample of Canadians. European psychiatry. S826-S826. 2021
- Acute Stress Effects on Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. S356-S356. 2018
- Reward Learning Capacity in Binge Eating Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. S148-S149. 2017
- Relating Anticipatory Processing to Risky Decision- Making: Differences in Gambling Disorder and Healthy Controls. Neuropsychopharmacology. S271-S271. 2016
- Reward Processing Across Addictive Disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology. S246-S247. 2015
- Linking Neuro-functional Reward Processing Changes with Treatment-related Abstinence in Cocaine Dependence. Biological Psychiatry. 343S-343S. 2015
- Sex Differences in Intrinsic Connectivity During fMRI Stroop in Cocaine-Dependent Individuals. Journal of Women's Health. 866-866. 2014
- Describing Reward Processing Across Disorders of Impulse Control. Biological Psychiatry. 51S-51S. 2014
- DRINKING FREQUENCY AND PROBLEM-GAMBLING SEVERITY IN ADOLESCENTS. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 12A-12A. 2013
- Monetary Reward Processing in Obese Individuals with and without Binge Eating Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 57S-57S. 2013
- Treatment-Related Changes in Brain Activations Underlying Cognitive Control and Reward Processing in Cocaine Dependence. Biological Psychiatry. 313S-313S. 2013
- HEAVY DRINKING IN AN UNDERGRADUATE POPULATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PERCEIVED EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND GENDER. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 72A-72A. 2009
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journal articles
- A Behavioural and neurobiological assessment of effort-based decision-making in cannabis use disorder: An initial/preliminary investigation.. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 1-19. 2025
- Who Engages in Simultaneous Gambling and Alcohol Use, and Why? A Mixed-Method Study.. Journal of Gambling Studies. 41:857-876. 2025
- 579. ‘Wired for Risk?’ Assessing the Effects of Childhood Trauma on Stress Responses and Gambling Urges. Biological Psychiatry. 97:s337. 2025
- COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND CANNABIS: PRECLINICAL, BEHAVIORAL AND CLINICAL INSIGHTS. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 267. 2025
- Empirical examination of working memory performance and its neural correlates in relation to delay discounting in two large samples.. Behavioural Brain Research. 475:115217. 2024
- Neurobiological foundations and clinical relevance of effort-based decision-making. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 18:1-30. 2024
- A Systematic Review of Stress Physiology in Gambling Disorder and Problem Gambling. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 11:182-200. 2024
- Financially focused self-concept and disordered gambling are bidirectionally related over time. Addiction Research and Theory. 32:299-311. 2024
- Changing cannabis legislation in Canada and a longitudinal look at “regular” cannabis use in patients with eating disorders. Psychiatry Research. 337:115933-115933. 2024
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SAEM GRACE : Anti‐craving medications for alcohol use disorder treatment in the emergency department: A systematic review of direct evidence. Academic Emergency Medicine. 31:504-514. 2024 -
SAEM GRACE : Phenobarbital for alcohol withdrawal management in the emergency department: A systematic review of direct evidence. Academic Emergency Medicine. 31:481-492. 2024 - SAEM GRACE: Dopamine antagonists and topical capsaicin for cannabis hyperemesis syndrome in the emergency department: A systematic review of direct evidence. Academic Emergency Medicine. 31:493-503. 2024
- Neural correlates of emotion dysregulation in adolescents: a systematic review. Discover Psychology. 4. 2024
- Potential Risks from Cannabis-Infused Beverages: A Critical Review.. Cannabis. 7:134-166. 2024
- Age and Gender Considerations with Respect to Gambling-Disorder Severity and Impulsivity and Self-control. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 21:3330-3344. 2023
- Mental Health Over Time and Financial Concerns Predict Change in Online Gambling During COVID-19. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 21:2751-2765. 2023
- Concurrent validity of the marijuana purchase task: a meta‐analysis of trait‐level cannabis demand and cannabis involvement. Addiction. 118:620-633. 2023
- Disgust sensitivity and behavioural inhibitory systems in binge eating disorder: associations with eating pathology. Eating and Weight Disorders. 28:15. 2023
- Converging on Resilience Factors. Biological Psychiatry. 92:834-835. 2022
- A reinforcer pathology approach to cannabis misuse: Evaluation of independent and interactive roles of cannabis demand and delay discounting in a sample of community adults.. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 30:584-592. 2022
- Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Cannabis Before Recreational Legalization: A Cross-Sectional Study of Community Adults in Ontario. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. 7:526-536. 2022
- Getting High or Getting By? An Examination of Cannabis Motives, Cannabis Misuse, and Concurrent Psychopathology in a Sample of General Community Adults. Substance Use: Research and Treatment. 16:117822182211190-117822182211190. 2022
- Food addiction in a large community sample of Canadian adults: prevalence and relationship with obesity, body composition, quality of life and impulsivity. Addiction. 116:2870-2879. 2021
- Getting High or Getting By? An Examination of Motives, Misuse, and Concurrent Psychopathology in a Sample of General Community Adults 2021
- Neuropsychological Constructs in Gaming Disorders: a Systematic Review. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 8:59-76. 2021
- A review of effort-based decision-making in eating and weight disorders. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 110:110333-110333. 2021
- Cannabis use and misuse in the year following recreational cannabis legalization in Canada: A longitudinal observational cohort study of community adults in Ontario. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 225:108781-108781. 2021
- Using an Optimized Marijuana Purchase Task to Examine Cannabis Demand in Relation to Cannabis Misuse in Heavy Drinking Emerging Adults. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 82:351-361. 2021
- Deficits in Reward Decision-Making on the Iowa Gambling Task in Justice-Involved Adults 2021
- Multidimensional elements of impulsivity as shared and unique risk factors for food addiction and alcohol misuse. Appetite. 159:105052-105052. 2021
- A Comparison of Gambling-Related Cognitions and Behaviors in Gamblers from the United States and Spain. Journal of Gambling Studies. 37:319-333. 2021
- GABAergic polygenic risk for cocaine use disorder is negatively correlated with precuneus activity during cognitive control in African American individuals. Addictive Behaviors. 114:106695-106695. 2021
- Understanding the Overlap Between Cannabis Use and Gambling Behaviour: A Systematic Review of Empirical Findings and Consideration of Policy Implications. Current Addiction Reports. 8:35-56. 2021
- Delay Discounting in Established and Proposed Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 15:786358. 2021
- Discrete Roles for Impulsivity and Compulsivity in Gambling Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12:789940. 2021
- Cannabis use, cognitive performance, and symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in community adults.. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 28:638-648. 2020
- Overlapping patterns of recreational and medical cannabis use in a large community sample of cannabis users. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 102:152188-152188. 2020
- Common neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of gambling and substance-use disorders. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 99:109847-109847. 2020
- Neuropsychology in GD: old and new directions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 31:48-53. 2020
- Spiritual experiences are related to engagement of a ventral frontotemporal functional brain network: Implications for prevention and treatment of behavioral and substance addictions. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 8:678-691. 2019
- An Overview of the Neurobiology of Impulsivity in Gambling and Gaming Disorder. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 6:209-218. 2019
- How Spirituality May Mitigate Against Stress and Related Mental Disorders: a Review and Preliminary Neurobiological Evidence. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 6:253-262. 2019
- An Exploratory Study of Relationships Among Five-Factor Personality Measures and Forms of Gambling in Adults With and Without Probable Pathological Gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies. 35:915-928. 2019
- Cannabis use among Canadian Armed Forces members and Veterans: discussion from a 2017 CIMVHR Forum working group. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. 5:209-213. 2019
- The neurobiology of impulsivity and substance use disorders: implications for treatment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1451:71-91. 2019
- Systematic review of the effects of acute stress in binge eating disorder. European Journal of Neuroscience. 50:2415-2429. 2019
- Gambling disorder. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 5:51. 2019
- Technological advances in the assessment of impulse control in offenders: A systematic review. Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 37:435-451. 2019
- Neural Correlates of Personalized Spiritual Experiences. Cerebral Cortex. 29:2331-2338. 2019
- Urinary tetrahydrocannabinol is associated with poorer working memory performance and alterations in associated brain activity. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44:613-619. 2019
- The Concept of Food Addiction: a Review of the Current Evidence. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 5:281-294. 2018
- Neural Activation in Reward Network Associated with Inattentive Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 2018
- Relating neural processing of reward and loss prospect to risky decision-making in individuals with and without gambling disorder. International Gambling Studies. 18:269-285. 2018
- Binge-eating disorder: Clinical and therapeutic advances. Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 182:15-27. 2018
- Openness to Changing Religious Views Is Related to Radial Diffusivity in the Genu of the Corpus Callosum in an Initial Study of Healthy Young Adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 9:330. 2018
- Altered functional connectivity to stressful stimuli in prenatally cocaine-exposed adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 180:129-136. 2017
- Reward-related frontostriatal activity and smoking behavior among adolescents in treatment for smoking cessation. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 177:268-276. 2017
- Altered intrinsic brain connectivity in prenatally cocaine-exposed adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 171:e222-e222. 2017
- Intra-individual changes in Stroop-related neural activations linked to cigarette abstinence in adolescent smokers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 171:e221-e221. 2017
- Steep delay discounting and addictive behavior: a meta-analysis of continuous associations. Addiction. 112:51-62. 2017
- Erratum to “Intra-individual changes in Stroop-related activations linked to cigarette abstinence in adolescent tobacco smokers: Preliminary findings” [Drug Alcohol Depend. 167 (2016) 182–189]. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 169:199-200. 2016
- Intra-individual changes in Stroop-related activations linked to cigarette abstinence in adolescent tobacco smokers: Preliminary findings. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 167:182-189. 2016
- Steep discounting of delayed monetary and food rewards in obesity: a meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. 46:2423-2434. 2016
- Neurofunctional Reward Processing Changes in Cocaine Dependence During Recovery. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41:2112-2121. 2016
- A Preliminary Study of DBH (Encoding Dopamine Beta-Hydroxylase) Genetic Variation and Neural Correlates of Emotional and Motivational Processing in Individuals With and Without Pathological Gambling. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 5:282-292. 2016
- Neurobiological features of binge eating disorder. CNS Spectrums. 20:557-565. 2015
- Sex differences in intrinsic connectivity during FMRI stroop in cocaine-dependent and healthy comparison subjects. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 156:e154-e154. 2015
- Neurobiological underpinnings of obesity and addiction: A focus on binge eating disorder and implications for treatment. Psychiatric Times. 32. 2015
- Choice impulsivity: Definitions, measurement issues, and clinical implications.. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. 6:182-198. 2015
- Anticipatory Reward Processing in Addicted Populations: A Focus on the Monetary Incentive Delay Task. Biological Psychiatry. 77:434-444. 2015
- Blunted striatal responses to favorite-food cues in smokers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 146:103-106. 2015
- Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Adolescent Neural Responses to Appetitive and Stressful Stimuli. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39:2824-2834. 2014
- Adolescent Alcohol-Drinking Frequency and Problem-Gambling Severity: Adolescent Perceptions regarding Problem-Gambling Prevention and Parental/Adult Behaviors and Attitudes. Substance Abuse. 35:426-434. 2014
- A pilot study linking reduced fronto–Striatal recruitment during reward processing to persistent bingeing following treatment for binge‐eating disorder. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 47:376-384. 2014
- A preliminary investigation of Stroop-related intrinsic connectivity in cocaine dependence: associations with treatment outcomes. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 39:392-402. 2013
- An exploratory pilot study of the relationship between neural correlates of cognitive control and reduction in cigarette use among treatment-seeking adolescent smokers.. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 27:526-532. 2013
- Neurobiological considerations in understanding behavioral treatments for pathological gambling.. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 27:380-392. 2013
- Monetary Reward Processing in Obese Individuals With and Without Binge Eating Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 73:877-886. 2013
- Divergent neural substrates of inhibitory control in binge eating disorder relative to other manifestations of obesity. Obesity. 21:367-377. 2013
- Neuroendocrinological responses to alcohol intoxication in healthy males: Relationship with impulsivity, drinking behavior, and subjective effects. Psychophysiology. 50:204-209. 2013
- Attending to Striatal Ups and Downs in Addictions. Biological Psychiatry. 72:e25-e26. 2012
- A Preliminary Study of the Neural Correlates of the Intensities of Self-Reported Gambling Urges and Emotions in Men with Pathological Gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies. 28:493-513. 2012
- Diminished Frontostriatal Activity During Processing of Monetary Rewards and Losses in Pathological Gambling. Biological Psychiatry. 71:749-757. 2012
- The stress–response-dampening effects of placebo. Hormones and Behavior. 59:465-472. 2011
- Perceptual Load-Dependent Neural Correlates of Distractor Interference Inhibition. PLoS ONE. 6:e14552-e14552. 2011
- The other side of the curve: Examining the relationship between pre-stressor physiological responses and stress reactivity. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 35:1363-1373. 2010
- Preference Conditioning in Healthy Individuals: Correlates With Hazardous Drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 34:1006-1012. 2010
- Recreational Drug Use and Impulsivity in a Population of Canadian Undergraduate Drinkers. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 1:129. 2010
- Binge drinking in undergraduates: relationships with sex, drinking behaviors, impulsivity, and the perceived effects of alcohol. Behavioural Pharmacology. 20:518-526. 2009
- Neural Basis of Perceptual Load Dependent Central Processing of Visual Distractors. NeuroImage. 47:S65-S65. 2009
- Intact Preference Conditioning in Acute Intoxication Despite Deficient Declarative Knowledge and Working Memory. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 31:1800-1810. 2007
- Instructional cues modify performance on the Iowa Gambling Task. Brain and Cognition. 60:109-117. 2006
- Is There Such Thing As A “Spidey-Sense”?. Frontiers for Young Minds. 11:1006005.
- Understanding the Overlap Between Cannabis Use and Gambling Behaviour: A Systematic Review of Empirical Findings and Consideration of Policy Implications. Current Addiction Reports.
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theses
- Reward learning capacity in a community sample of individuals who use cannabis.. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2024