Search Results - "Koffarnus, Mikhail N."

The behavioral- and neuro-economic process of temporal discounting: A candidate behavioral marker of addiction by Bickel, Warren K., Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Moody, Lara, Wilson, A. George

“…Addiction science would benefit from the identification of a behavioral marker. A behavioral marker could reflect the projected clinical course of the…”
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Excessive discounting of delayed reinforcers as a trans-disease process contributing to addiction and other disease-related vulnerabilities: emerging evidence by Bickel, Warren K, Jarmolowicz, David P, Mueller, E Terry, Koffarnus, Mikhail N, Gatchalian, Kirstin M

“…Delay discounting describes the devaluation of a reinforcer as a function of the delay until its receipt. Although all people discount delayed reinforcers, one…”
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Stuck in Time: Negative Income Shock Constricts the Temporal Window of Valuation Spanning the Future and the Past by Bickel, Warren K, Wilson, A George, Chen, Chen, Koffarnus, Mikhail N, Franck, Christopher T

“…Insufficient resources are associated with negative consequences including decreased valuation of future reinforcers. To determine if these effects result from…”
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An overview of Bayesian reasoning in the analysis of delay‐discounting data by Franck, Christopher T., Koffarnus, Mikhail N., McKerchar, Todd L., Bickel, Warren K.

“…Statistical inference (including interval estimation and model selection) is increasingly used in the analysis of behavioral data. As with many other fields,…”
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Choice Bundling Increases Valuation of Delayed Losses More Than Gains in Cigarette Smokers by Stein, Jeffrey S, Brown, Jeremiah M, Tegge, Allison N, Freitas-Lemos, Roberta, Koffarnus, Mikhail N, Bickel, Warren K, Madden, Gregory J

“…Choice bundling, in which a single choice produces a series of repeating consequences over time, increases valuation of delayed monetary and non-monetary…”
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A 5-Trial Adjusting Delay Discounting Task: Accurate Discount Rates in Less Than One Minute by Koffarnus, Mikhail N, Bickel, Warren K

“…Individuals who discount delayed rewards at a high rate are more likely to engage in substance abuse, overeating, or problem gambling. Such findings suggest…”
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The Behavioral Economics of Substance Use Disorders: Reinforcement Pathologies and Their Repair by Bickel, Warren K, Johnson, Matthew W, Koffarnus, Mikhail N, MacKillop, James, Murphy, James G

“…The field of behavioral economics has made important inroads into the understanding of substance use disorders through the concept of reinforcer pathology…”
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Clinical models of decision making in addiction by Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Kaplan, Brent A.

“…As research on decision making in addiction accumulates, it is increasingly clear that decision-making processes are dysfunctional in addiction and that this…”
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A Modified Exponential Behavioral Economic Demand Model to Better Describe Consumption Data by Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Franck, Christopher T., Stein, Jeffrey S., Bickel, Warren K.

“…Behavioral economic demand analyses that quantify the relationship between the consumption of a commodity and its price have proven useful in studying the…”
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Unstuck in time: episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting and cigarette smoking by Stein, Jeffrey S., Wilson, A. George, Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Daniel, Tinuke Oluyomi, Epstein, Leonard H., Bickel, Warren K.

“…Rationale Delay discounting, or the devaluation of delayed outcomes, appears to play an etiological role in tobacco and other substance-use disorders…”
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Identification and Management of Nonsystematic Purchase Task Data: Toward Best Practice by Stein, Jeffrey S, Koffarnus, Mikhail N, Snider, Sarah E, Quisenberry, Amanda J, Bickel, Warren K

“…Experimental assessments of demand allow the examination of economic phenomena relevant to the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of addiction and other…”
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Remote Alcohol Monitoring to Facilitate Incentive‐Based Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Trial by Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Bickel, Warren K., Kablinger, Anita S.

“…Background The delivery of monetary incentives contingent on verified abstinence is an effective treatment for alcohol use disorder. However, technological…”
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Recommendations for the Use of Behavioral Economic Demand as an Abuse Liability Assessment for Drug Scheduling by Koffarnus, Mikhail N.

“…Before being marketed in the United States, novel drugs must undergo evaluation for abuse liability. Drugs with higher abuse liability are assigned a schedule…”
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Behavioral Economics of Cigarette Purchase Tasks: Within-Subject Comparison of Real, Potentially Real, and Hypothetical Cigarettes by Wilson, A. George, Franck, Christopher T., Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Bickel, Warren K.

“…Hypothetical rewards are commonly used in studies of laboratory-based tobacco demand. However, behavioral economic demand procedures require confirmation that…”
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Evaluating the social acceptability of the Re‐Connect concept: A smartphone‐based, nonfinancial, contingency management intervention by Raiff, Bethany R., Upton, Caitlyn R., Koffarnus, Mikhail N.

“…Abstract Contingency management is a well‐validated behavior change intervention; however, the financial incentives can prevent it from being widely adopted…”
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Timeline Followback Self-Reports Underestimate Alcohol Use Prior to Successful Contingency Management Treatment by Kaplan, Brent A, Koffarnus, Mikhail N

“…Alcohol consumption is a modifiable and plausible risk factor for age-related cognitive decline but more longitudinal studies investigating the association are…”
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CHANGING DELAY DISCOUNTING IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMPETING NEUROBEHAVIORAL DECISION SYSTEMS THEORY: A REVIEW by Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Jarmolowicz, David P., Mueller, E. Terry, Bickel, Warren K.

“…Excessively devaluing delayed reinforcers co‐occurs with a wide variety of clinical conditions such as drug dependence, obesity, and excessive gambling. If…”
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Individual differences in the reinforcing and punishing effects of nicotine in rhesus monkeys by Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Winger, Gail

“…Rationale The relatively weak reinforcing effects of nicotine in experimental studies have been attributed to possible aversive effects or the need to space…”
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Electronic cigarette substitution in the experimental tobacco marketplace: A review by Bickel, Warren K., Pope, Derek A., Kaplan, Brent A., DeHart, William Brady, Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Stein, Jeffrey S.

“…The evolution of science derives, in part, from the development and use of new methods and techniques. Here, we discuss one development that may have impact on…”
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Think fast: rapid assessment of the effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting in overweight/obese participants by Stein, Jeffrey S., Sze, Yan Yan, Athamneh, Liqa, Koffarnus, Mikhail N., Epstein, Leonard H., Bickel, Warren K.

“…Accumulating laboratory-based evidence indicates that reducing delay discounting (devaluation of delayed outcomes) with the use of episodic future thinking…”
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