Publications

**Denotes BEAN Lab graduate student / postdoctoral fellow (some students are from McMaster University)

** Weinsztok, S., Reed, D. D., & Amlung, M.(In Press) Identifying substitute activities for alcohol consumption: a preliminary analysis. Addiction Research and Theory 

**Morris, V., Bock, N., Minuzzi, L., MacKillop, J., & Amlung,   M (2022). Intracortical myelin in individuals with alcohol use   disorder: An initial proof-of-concept study. Brain & Behavior. e2762.

**Miller, B.P., Murphy, J.G., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M. (In Press). Next-day responsibilities attenuate demand for alcohol among a crowdsourced sample of community adults. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 

**Patel, H.N. & Amlung, M. (In Press). Income shock  increases preferences for smaller immediate rewards and reduces alcohol   demand among a sample of crowd-sourced adults. Experimental and Clinical  Psychopharmacology.

**Weinsztok, S., Reed, D. D., & Amlung, M. (In  Press). Substance-related cross-commodity purchase tasks: A systematic  review. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 

 Motschman, C., Amlung, M., & McCarthy, D. M. (2022). Alcohol demand as a predictor of drinking behavior in the natural environment. Addiction, 117: 1887-1896. 

Reed, D.D., Strickland, J.C., Gelino, B.W., Hursh, S.R., Jarmolowicz, D.P., Kaplan, B.A., & Amlung, M. (2022). Applied behavioral economics and public health policies: Historical precedence and translational promise. Behavioural Processes.  198: 104640 .

McIntyre-Wood, C., Madan, C., Owens, M., Amlung, M.,  Sweet, L.H., MacKillop, J. (2022). Neuroanatomical foundations of delayed   reward discounting decision making II: Evaluation of sulcal morphology and   fractal dimensionality. NeuroImage, 257, 119309.

**Morris, V., Syan, S.K., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M. (2022). Resting state functional connectivity in alcohol users and co-users of other substances. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 321:111461

**Patel, H., **Naish, K., Soreni, N., Amlung, M. (2022). The effects of a single transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) session on impulsivity and risk among a sample of adult recreational cannabis users. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:758285

**Patel, H., O’Connor, C., Andrews, K., Amlung, M., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M. (2022). Dissociative symptomatology mediates the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder severity and alcohol-related problems. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 46(2):289-299.

Levitt, E. E., Oshri, A., Amlung, M., Ray, L.A., Sanchez-Roige, S., Palmer, A.A., & MacKillop, J. (2022) Evaluation of delay discounting as a transdiagnostic Research Domain Criteria indicator in 1388 general community adults. Psychological Medicine. 26;1-9

Naudé, G.P., Strickland, J.S., & Reed, D.D. & Amlung, M. (In Press). Delay discounting and neurocognitive performance in young adults with differential patterns of substance use: Findings from the Human Connectome Project. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology.

**Weinsztok, S., Brassard, S., Balodis, I., Martin, L., & Amlung, M. (2021). Delay discounting in established and proposed behavioral addictions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Special Issue "Behavioral Addictions, Risk-Taking, and Impulsive Choice". 15:786358.  

**Patel H., Holshausen, K., Oshri, A., Andrews, K., Penta, S., Raymond, H., McKinnon, M., Brasch, J., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M. (2021). Posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use in an outpatient concurrent disorders sample. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 66, 788-797

Vedelago, L., Wardell, J. D., Kempe, T., **Patel, H., Amlung, M., MacKillop, J., & Keough, M. T. (2021). Getting high to cope with COVID-19: Modelling the associations between cannabis demand, coping motives, and cannabis use and problems. Addictive Behaviors,124, 107092.

Halladay, J., Horricks, L., Amlung, M., MacKillop, J., Munn, C., Nasir, Z., Woock, R., Georgiades, K. (2021). The CAMP Study: Feasibility and clinical correlates of standardized assessments of substance use in a youth psychiatric inpatient sample. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 15, 48.

Syan, S.K., Gonzalez-Roz, A., Amlung, M., Sweet, L.H., & MacKillop, J. (2021). Delay discounting as a prognostic factor for smoking cessation treatment outcome: A systematic review. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 23, 1636-1645.

Petker, T., Yanke, C., Rahman, L., Whalen, L., Demaline, K., Whitelaw, K., Bang, B., Holshausen, K., Amlung, M. & MacKillop, J. (2021). Naturalistic evaluation of an adjunctive yoga program for women with substance use disorders in inpatient treatment: Within-treatment effects on cravings, self-efficacy, psychiatric symptoms, impulsivity, and mindfulness. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment. 15, 11782218211026651.
 

**Patel, H. & Amlung, M. (2020). Acute and extended exposure to episodic future thinking in a treatment seeking addiction sample: A pilot study. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 116. 

**Morris, V., Goodgame Huffman, L., **Naish, K., Holshausen, K., Oshri, A., McKinnon, M., Amlung, M. (2020). Impulsivity as a mediating factor in the association between post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and substance use. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(6), 659-668.

Naudé, G.P., Reed, D.D., Thornton, T.J., & Amlung, M.(In Press). Dual use of alcohol and cannabis among college students: A reinforcer pathologies approach. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Petker, T., DeJesus, J., Lee, A., Gillard, J., Owens, M.M., Balodis, I.M., Amlung, M.T., George, T., Oshri, A., Hall, G., Schmidt, L. & MacKillop J. (2020). Cannabis use, cognitive performance, and symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in community adults. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28(6), 636-648.

**Patel, H., **Naish, K. R., & Amlung, M.(2020). Discounting of delayed monetary and cannabis rewards in a crowdsourced sample of adults. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28(4), 462-470.
 

**Vedelago, L., Halladay, J., Munn, C., Georgiades, K., Amlung, M.(2020). Cannabis and the learning brain. Frontiers for Young Minds. Doi. 0.3389/frym.2020.00052.

**Vedelago, L., Metrik, J., & Amlung, M. (2020). Differentiating medicinal and recreational cannabis users via cannabis use motives. Cannabis, 3(1).
 

Acuff, S. F., Amlung, M. T.,Dennhardt, A. A., MacKillop, J., & Murphy, J. G. (2020). Experimental manipulations of behavioral economic demand for addictive commodities: A meta-analysis. Addiction. 115, 817-831.

Halladay, J., Woock, R., El-Khechen, H., Munn, C., MacKillop, J., Amlung, M., Ogrodnik, M., Favotto, L., Aryal, K., Noori, A., Kiflen, M., & Georgiades, K. (2020). Patterns of Substance Co-Use among Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 216.
 

**Morris, V., Owens, M. M., Syan, S. K., Petker, T. D., Sweet, L. H., Oshri, A., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M.(2019). Associations between drinking and cortical thickness in younger adults: Findings from the Human Connectome Project. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 43(9), 1918-1927. 

Amlung, M.,Marsden, E., Holshausen, K., **Morris, V., **Patel, H., **Vedelago, L., **Naish, K. R., Reed, D. D., McCabe, R. E., (2019). Delay discounting as a transdiagnostic process in psychiatric disorders: A meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 76,1176-1186.

Petker, T., Owens, M., Amlung, M.,Oshri, A., Sweet, L. H., & MacKillop, J. (2019). Cannabis involvement and neuropsychological performance: findings from the Human Connectome Project. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 44(5), 1-9. 

**Vedelago, L., Amlung, M.,**Morris, V., Petker, T., Balodis, I., McLachlan, K., Mamak, M., Moulden, H., Chaimowitz, G., & MacKillop, J. (2019). Technological Advances in the Assessment of Impulse Control in Offenders: A Systematic Review. Behavioral Sciences & The Law, 37, 435-451. 

**Patel, H., Reed, D.D., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M.(2019). Clarifying the Relation between Alcohol Demand and Alcohol-Related Relative Reinforcement and Driving after Drinking in a Canadian Community Sample. Canadian Journal of Addiction, 10(1), 16-23.
 

**Patel, H., & Amlung, M.(2019). Elevated cannabis demand is associated with driving after cannabis use in a crowdsourced sample of adults. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 27, 109-114. 

Amlung, M.& MacKillop, J., (2019). Availability of legalized cannabis reduces demand for illegal cannabis among Canadian cannabis users: Evidence from a behavioural economic substitution paradigm. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 110, 216-221. 

Owens, M.M., Syan, S.K., Amlung, M.,Beach, S.R.H., Sweet, L.H., MacKillop, J. (2019). Functional and structural neuroimaging studies of delayed reward discounting in addiction: A systematic review. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 141-164. 

Owens, M., McNally, S., Petker, T., Amlung, M., Balodis, I.M. Sweet, L. & MacKillop, J. (2019). NPRC-Urinary Tetrahydrocannabinol is associated with poorer working memory performance and alterations in associated brain activity, Neuropsychopharmacology, 44,613-619. 

Athamneh, L., Stein, J. S., Amlung, M., & Bickel, W. K. (2019). Validation of a brief behavioral economic assessment of demand among cigarette smokers. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 27, 96-102
 

Amlung, M., Reed, D.D., **Morris, V., Aston, E.R., Metrik, J., & MacKillop, J. (2019). Price Elasticity of Illegal vs Legal Cannabis: A Behavioral Economic Substitutability Analysis. Addiction, 114, 112-118. 

**Naish, K., **Vedelago, L., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M.(2018). Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive performance in individuals exhibiting addictive behaviors: A systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 192, 338-51.
 

**Morris, V., **Patel, H., **Vedelago, L., Reed, D.D., Metrik, J., Aston, E., MacKillop, J., & Amlung, M.(2018). Elevated behavioral economic demand for alcohol and co-users of alcohol and cannabis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79,929-934. 

Kaplan, B., Foster, R. N., Reed, D. D., Amlung, M.,Murphy, J. G., MacKillop, J. (2018). Understanding alcohol motivation using the alcohol purchase task: A methodological systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 191,117-140.

Athamneh, L., Stein, J. S., Amlung, M., & Bickel, W. K. (2018). Validation of a brief behavioral economic assessment of demand among cigarette smokers. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology  

**Naish, K.N., **Vedelago, L., MacKillop, J. & Amlung, M.(2018). Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive performance in individuals exhibiting addictive behaviour: A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews.  

Owens, M.M., Amlung, M.T.,Stojek, M.M.K., & MacKillop, J. (2018). Negative Urgency Moderates Reactivity to Laboratory Stress Inductions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 127, 385-393.

Becirevec, A., Reed, D. D., Amlung, M., Stapleton, J. L., & Hillhouse, J. J. (2017). Demand for indoor tanning in regular users differs between behavioral addiction risk profiles. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology,25, 346-352. 

Owens, M. M., Gray, J. G., Amlung, M.,Oshri, A., Sweet, L. H., & MacKillop, J., (2017). Neuroanatomical foundations of delayed reward discounting decision making. NeuroImage, 161,261-270. 

​Owens, M. M., Amlung, M.,Beach, S. R. H., Sweet, L. H., & MacKillop, J. (2017). Delay discounting differences in brain activation, connectivity, and structure in individuals with addiction: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews,6, 138. 

**Morris, V., Amlung, M.,Kaplan, B. A., Reed, D. D., Petker, T., & MacKillop, J. (2017). Using crowdsourcing to examine behavioral economic measures of alcohol value and proportionate alcohol reinforcement. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 25, 314-321.  

Amlung, M., MacKillop, J., Monti, P. M., & Miranda Jr., R. (2017). Elevated behavioral economic demand in a community sample of heavy drinking smokers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 78,623-628.

Becirevic, A., Reed, D. D., Amlung, M.(2017). An initial investigation of the effects of tanning-related cues on demand and craving for indoor tanning. The Psychological Record, 67, 149-160.  
 

Reed, D. D., Critchfield, T. S., Amlung, M., & Jarmolowicz, D. P. (2017). Choice and chronic health conditions: Introduction to the special issue. The Psychological Record, 67, 135-136

Amlung, M., Vedelago, L., Acker, J., Balodis, I., & MacKillop, J. (2017). Steep delay discounting and addictive behavior: A meta-analysis of continuous associations. Addiction, 112,51-62  

Morris, D. H., Amlung, M. T., Tsai, C. L., McCarthy, D. M. (2017). Association between overall rate of change in rising breath alcohol concentration and the magnitude of acute tolerance of subjective intoxication via the Mellanby method. Human Psychopharmaocology, 32, 1-9.  
 

Gray, J., Amlung, M.,Owens, M., Acker, J., Brown, C., Brody, G., Sweet, L., & MacKillop, J. (2017). The neuroeconomics of tobacco demand: An initial investigation of the neural correlates of cigarette cost-benefit decision making. Scientific Reports, 7:41930, 1-10.  

Amlung, M., Petker, T., Jackson, J., Balodis, I., & MacKillop, J. (2016). Steep discounting of delayed monetary and food rewards in obesity: A meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine, 46, 2423-2434.   

Aston ER, Metrik J, Amlung M, Kahler CW, & MacKillop J. (2016). Interrelationships between marijuana demand and discounting of delayed rewards: Convergence in behavioral economic methods. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 169, 141-147.  

Kaplan, B.A., Amlung, M.,Reed, D.D., Jarmolowicz, D. P., McKerchar, T. L., Lemley, S.M. (2016). Automating scoring of delay discounting for the 21- and 27-item monetary choice questionnaire. The Behavior Analyst, 39, 293-304. ​
 

Raymond, H., Amlung, M.,De Leo, J. A., Hashmani, T., Younger, J., & MacKillop, J. (2016). Adaptation of an acute psychiatric unit to a concurrent disorders unit to increase capacity and improve patient care. Canadian Journal on Addictions, 7(3), 5-33. 

Gray, J. C., Amlung, M.,Palmer, A. A., & MacKillop J. (2016). Syntax for calculation of discounting indices from the Monetary Choice Questionnaire and Probability Discounting Questionnaire. Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 106, 156-163  

Amlung, M.,Morris, D. H., Hatz, L., Teeters, J., Murphy, J. G., & McCarthy, D. M. (2016). Drinking-and-driving-related cognitions mediate the relationship between alcohol demand and alcohol-impaired driving. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77,656-660.   

Bailey, K., Amlung, M. T.,Morris, D. H., Price, M. H., McCarthy, D. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Separate and joint effects of alcohol and caffeine on conflict monitoring and adaptation. Psychopharmacology, 233(7), 1245-55  
 

Amlung, M., McCarty, K. N., Morris, D. H., Tsai, C. L., & McCarthy, D. M. (2015). Increased behavioral economic demand and craving for alcohol following a laboratory alcohol challenge. Addiction, 110(9), 1421-8  

Amlung, M. & MacKillop, J. (2015). Further evidence of close correspondence for alcohol demand decision making for hypothetical and incentivized rewards. Behavioural Processes.. 113, 187-191.  

Amlung, M., Yurasek, A., McCarty, K. N., MacKillop, J. & Murphy, J. G. (2015). Area under the curve as a novel metric of behavioral economic demand for alcohol. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology. 23(3), 168-175.  
 

Amlung, M. T., Morris, D. H., & McCarthy, D. M. (2014). Effects of acute alcohol tolerance on perceptions of danger and willingness to drive after drinking. Psychopharmacology, 231, 4271-4279.
 

Amlung, M., & MacKillop, J. (2014). Clarifying the relationship between impulsive delay discounting and nicotine dependence. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28(3), 761-768.  
 

Amlung, M. & MacKillop, J. (2014). Understanding the effects of stress and alcohol cues on motivation for alcohol via behavioral economics. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. 38(6), 1780-1789.  

Gray, J. C., Amlung, M., Acker, J., Sweet, L. H., Brown, C., & MacKillop, J. (2014). Clarifying the neural basis for incentive salience of tobacco cues in smokers. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 223(3), 218-225.  

MacKillop, J., Amlung, M., Acker, J., Gray, J., Brown, C. L., Murphy, J. G., Ray, L. R., & Sweet, L. H. (2014). The neuroeconomics of alcohol demand: An initial investigation of the neural correlates of alcohol cost-benefit decision making in heavy drinking men. Neuropsychopharmacology, 39, 1988-1995.  

MacKillop, J., Amlung, M., Blackburn, A., Murphy, J. G., Carrigan, M., & Chaloupka, F. (2014). Left-digit price effects on smoking cessation motivation. Tobacco Control. 23, 501-506.  

Amlung, M., Sweet, L. H., Acker, J., Brown, C. L. & MacKillop, J. (2014). Dissociable brain signatures of choice conflict and immediate reward preferences in alcohol use disorders. Addiction Biology. 19(4).  

Gray, J. C., Amlung, M., Acker, J., Sweet, L. H., & MacKillop, J. (2014). Item-based analysis of delayed reward discounting decision making. Behavioural Processes.103, 256-260.  

Amlung, M., Few, L. R., Howland, J., Rohsenow, D. J., Metrik, J., & MacKillop, J. (2013). Impulsivity and alcohol demand in relation to combined alcohol and caffeine use. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 21(6), 467-474.  

Schaeffer, D. J., Amlung, M. T., Li, Q., Krafft, C. E., Austin, B. P., Dyckman, K. A., & McDowell, J. E. (2013). Neural correlates of behavioral variation in healthy adults’ antisaccade performance. Psychophysiology, 50(4), 325-333.  

MacKillop, J., Howland, J., Rohsenow, D. J., Few, L., Amlung, M., Metrik, J., & Calise, T. V. (2012). Initial development of a measure of expectancies for combinations of alcohol and caffeine: The Caffeine+Alcohol Combined Effects Questionnaire (CACEQ).  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 20(6), 466-472.  

Li, Q., Amlung, M. T., Valtcheva, M., Camchong, J., Austin, B. P., Dyckman, K. A., Unsworth, N., Clementz, B. A., McDowell, J. E. (2012). Evidence from cluster analysis for differentiation of antisaccade performance groups based on speed / accuracy trade-offs. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 85(2), 274-277.  

Amlung, M., & MacKillop, J. (2012). Consistency of self-reported alcohol consumption on randomized and sequential alcohol purchase tasks. Frontiers in Addictive Disorders. 3:65.  

Amlung, M., Acker, J., Stojek, M., Murphy, J. & MacKillop, J. (2012). Is talk “cheap”? An initial investigation of the equivalence of alcohol purchase task performance for hypothetical and actual rewards. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 36(4), 716-724.  

MacKillop, J., Amlung, M. T., Wier, L., David, S. P., Ray, L. A., Bickel, W. K., & Sweet, L. H. (2012). The neuroeconomics of nicotine dependence: An fMRI study of delay discounting in nicotine dependent adults. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 202, 20-29.  

Acker, J., Amlung, M., Stojek, M., Murphy, J. G., & MacKillop, J. (2012). Individual variation in behavioral economic indices of the relative value of alcohol: Incremental validity in relation to impulsivity, craving, and intellectual functioning. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 3(3), 423-436. 

Plebani, J., Ray, L. A. Morean, M., Corbin, W., MacKillop, J., Amlung, M., King, A. C. (2012). Human laboratory paradigms in alcohol research. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.  36(6), 972-83.  

Amlung, M. & MacKillop, J. (2011). Delayed reward discounting and alcohol misuse: The roles of response consistency and reward magnitude. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 2(3), 418-431. 

MacKillop. J., Amlung, M. T., Pryor, L. R., Ray, L. A., Sweet, L. H.  & Munafo, M. R. (2011). Delayed reward discounting and addictive behavior: A meta-analysis. Psychopharmacology, 216(3), 305-321.  

MacKillop, J., Obasi, E., Amlung, M., McGeary, J., & Knopik, V. (2010). The role of genetics in nicotine dependence: Mapping the pathways from genome to syndrome. Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports, 4, 446-4