Scholars@Duke
Jason A Oliver

Jason A Oliver

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
jason.a.oliver@duke.edu
2608 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

Identifying neural signatures of tobacco retail outlet exposure: Preliminary validation of a "community neuroscience" paradigm.

Journal Article Addict Biol · September 2021 An extensive epidemiological literature indicates that increased exposure to tobacco retail outlets (TROs) places never smokers at greater risk for smoking uptake and current smokers at greater risk for increased consumption and smoking relapse. Yet resear ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cue-based treatment for light smokers: A proof of concept pilot.

Journal Article Addict Behav · March 2021 INTRODUCTION: Light smoking (smoking ≤ 10 cigarettes per day or on some days) has become increasingly prevalent in the US and increases morbidity and mortality. Many light smokers do not experience significant nicotine withdrawal but instead smoke in respo ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Smoking Cessation App Designed for Individuals With Co-Occurring Tobacco Use Disorder and Serious Mental Illness.

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · August 24, 2020 INTRODUCTION: High rates of tobacco use among people with serious mental illness (SMI), along with their unique needs, suggest the importance of developing tailored smoking cessation interventions for this group. Previous early-phase work empirically valid ... Full text Link to item Cite

Digital envirotyping: quantifying environmental determinants of health and behavior.

Journal Article NPJ Digit Med · 2020 Digital phenotyping efforts have used wearable devices to connect a rich array of physiologic data to health outcomes or behaviors of interest. The environmental context surrounding these phenomena has received less attention, yet is critically needed to u ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lack of utility of cigarettes per day cutoffs for clinical and laboratory smoking research.

Journal Article Addict Behav · November 2019 BACKGROUND: Most clinical and laboratory smoking research studies require that participants smoke at a certain level to be eligible for enrollment. However, there is limited evidence that use of these cutoffs differentiates groups of smokers along clinical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identifying Smoking Environments From Images of Daily Life With Deep Learning.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · August 2, 2019 IMPORTANCE: Environments associated with smoking increase a smoker's craving to smoke and may provoke lapses during a quit attempt. Identifying smoking risk environments from images of a smoker's daily life provides a basis for environment-based interventi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using Neuroscience to Inform Tobacco Control Policy.

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · May 21, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Techniques employed in the field of neuroscience, such as eye tracking, electroencephalography, and functional magnetic resonance imaging, have been important in informing our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying tobacco smoki ... Full text Link to item Cite

Young adult dual combusted cigarette and e-cigarette users' anticipated responses to a nicotine reduction policy and menthol ban in combusted cigarettes.

Journal Article Drug Alcohol Depend · January 1, 2019 BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to assess young adult dual e-cigarette (EC) and combusted cigarette (CC) users' anticipated responses to a hypothetical very low nicotine content product standard and menthol ban in CC. METHODS: Data came from 240 young ... Full text Link to item Cite

Young adult dual combusted cigarette and e-cigarette users' anticipated responses to hypothetical e-cigarette market restrictions.

Journal Article Subst Use Misuse · 2019 Introduction: The aim of this exploratory study was to assess young adult dual e-cigarette (EC) and combusted cigarette (CC) users' anticipated responses to hypothetical market restrictions regarding key EC characteristics. Methods: Data came from 240 youn ... Full text Link to item Cite

Attentional bias and smoking

Chapter · January 1, 2019 Research on smoking cue reactivity has increasingly focused on attentional processes engaged by smoking-relevant cues and applying models and methods from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to measure and interpret attentional bias (AB) to these cues. T ... Full text Cite

What Do Smokers Want in A Smartphone-Based Cessation Application?

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · November 15, 2018 BACKGROUND: Fueled by rapid technological advances over the past decade, there is growing interest in the use of smartphones to aid in smoking cessation. Hundreds of applications have been developed for this purpose, but little is known about how these app ... Full text Link to item Cite

Barriers and consultation needs regarding implementation of evidence-based treatment in community agencies.

Journal Article Child Youth Serv Rev · November 2018 There is growing recognition of the gap between research and practice in mental health settings, and community agencies now face significant pressure from multiple stakeholders to engage in evidence-based practices. Unfortunately, little is known about the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting Smoking Events with a Time-Varying Semi-Parametric Hawkes Process Model.

Journal Article Proc Mach Learn Res · August 2018 Health risks from cigarette smoking - the leading cause of preventable death in the United States - can be substantially reduced by quitting. Although most smokers are motivated to quit, the majority of quit attempts fail. A number of studies have explored ... Link to item Cite

Basic Science and Public Policy: Informed Regulation for Nicotine and Tobacco Products.

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · June 7, 2018 INTRODUCTION: Scientific discoveries over the past few decades have provided significant insight into the abuse liability and negative health consequences associated with tobacco and nicotine-containing products. While many of these advances have led to th ... Full text Link to item Cite

ADHD, Smoking Withdrawal, and Inhibitory Control: Results of a Neuroimaging Study with Methylphenidate Challenge.

Journal Article Neuropsychopharmacology · March 2018 Smoking withdrawal negatively impacts inhibitory control, and these effects are greater for smokers with preexisting attention problems, such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The current study preliminarily evaluated changes in inhibitor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nicotine Withdrawal Induces Neural Deficits in Reward Processing.

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · June 1, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Nicotine withdrawal reduces neurobiological responses to nonsmoking rewards. Insight into these reward deficits could inform the development of targeted interventions. This study examined the effect of withdrawal on neural and behavioral resp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Smoking environment cues reduce ability to resist smoking as measured by a delay to smoking task.

Journal Article Addict Behav · April 2017 INTRODUCTION: Environments associated with smoking may promote lapse and relapse in smokers attempting to quit. Here we examined the effects of exposure to visual smoking environment cues on smoking urge and the ability to resist smoking, as measured with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nicotine increases anterior insula activation to expected and unexpected outcomes among nonsmokers.

Journal Article Psychopharmacology (Berl) · April 2017 RATIONALE: Tobacco has a higher rate of dependence than other drugs of abuse. However, the psychopharmacological effects of nicotine are incongruent with the tenacity of tobacco addiction since nicotine does not produce robust euphoria in humans or self-ad ... Full text Link to item Cite

How much does love really hurt? Psychopathology and romantic relationships: A meta-analysis

Conference European Psychiatry · April 2017 IntroductionRomantic relationship quality (RRQ) and break-ups (RRB) among young adults have been associated with the onset of a first major depressive episode or su ... Full text Cite

Reducing nicotine exposure results in weight gain in smokers randomised to very low nicotine content cigarettes.

Journal Article Tob Control · March 2017 BACKGROUND: The Food and Drug Administration can reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes to very low levels. This potential regulatory action is hypothesised to improve public health by reducing smoking, but may have unintended consequences related to we ... Full text Link to item Cite

How Much Does Love Really Hurt? A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Romantic Relationship Quality, Breakups and Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescents and Young Adults

Journal Article Journal of Relationships Research · February 7, 2017 A meta-analysis of 20 manuscripts reporting on 21 unique studies (N = 19,623) was conducted to investigate the magnitude of the association between adolescent romantic relationship quality (RRQ), romantic relationship breakups (RRB) and mental health outco ... Full text Cite

Smokers exhibit biased neural processing of smoking and affective images.

Journal Article Health Psychol · August 2016 OBJECTIVE: There has been growing interest in the role that implicit processing of drug cues can play in motivating drug use behavior. However, the extent to which drug cue processing biases relate to the processing biases exhibited to other types of evoca ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Extended Pre Quit Bupropion Aid in Extinguishing Smoking Behavior?

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · November 2015 INTRODUCTION: Understanding the mechanisms by which bupropion promotes smoking cessation may lead to more effective treatment. To the extent that reduced smoking reinforcement is one such mechanism, a longer duration of pre quit bupropion treatment should ... Full text Link to item Cite

Post-operative smoking status in lung and head and neck cancer patients: association with depressive symptomatology, pain, and fatigue.

Journal Article Psychooncology · September 2015 OBJECTIVE: An estimated 35-50% of lung and head and neck cancer patients are smoking at diagnosis; most try to quit; however, a substantial proportion resumes smoking. As cancer treatments improve, attention to the effects of continued smoking on quality o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cortical activity differs during nicotine deprivation versus satiation in heavy smokers.

Journal Article Psychopharmacology (Berl) · June 2015 RATIONALE: Research suggests that nicotine deprivation among smokers is associated with lesser resting cortical activity (i.e., greater power density in theta and alpha-1 EEG bands and lesser power in beta bands). These changes in cortical activity may be ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive manifestations of drinking-smoking associations: preliminary findings with a cross-primed Stroop task.

Journal Article Drug Alcohol Depend · February 1, 2015 BACKGROUND: Despite tremendous growth in research examining the role of cognitive bias in addictive behaviors, scant consideration has been paid to the close association between smoking and drinking behavior. This study sought to determine whether an assoc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Statewide dissemination of an evidence-based practice using Breakthrough Series Collaboratives

Journal Article Children and Youth Services Review · January 1, 2015 The emerging field of implementation science has begun to inform the increasing efforts to disseminate evidence-based practices. The Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) model was used to disseminate trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) ... Full text Cite

Nicotine interactions with low-dose alcohol: pharmacological influences on smoking and drinking motivation.

Journal Article J Abnorm Psychol · November 2013 An extensive literature documents a close association between cigarette and alcohol use. The joint pharmacological effects of alcohol and nicotine on smoking and drinking motivation may help explain this relationship. This experiment was designed to test t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nicotine deprivation influences P300 markers of cognitive control.

Journal Article Neuropsychopharmacology · November 2013 Studies suggest that reduced cognitive control due to nicotine withdrawal may have a critical role in promoting tobacco use. The P3 family of event-related brain potential (ERP) components is thought to serve as markers of cognitive control processes. Unfo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of smoking relapse in patients with thoracic cancer or head and neck cancer.

Journal Article Cancer · April 1, 2013 BACKGROUND: Cancer patients who continue smoking are at increased risk for adverse outcomes including reduced treatment efficacy and poorer survival rates. Many patients spontaneously quit smoking after diagnosis; however, relapse is understudied. The goal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Visual search and attentional bias for smoking cues: the role of familiarity.

Journal Article Exp Clin Psychopharmacol · December 2012 Despite decades of work, the relationship between drug cues and actual drug use remains unclear. One promising area of research that may help explain this disconnect is the role of cognitive processing of drug cues, including attentional bias. This study u ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of divalproex on smoking cue reactivity and cessation outcomes among smokers achieving initial abstinence.

Journal Article Exp Clin Psychopharmacol · August 2012 Divalproex, a GABA agonist, may be a useful agent in the treatment of tobacco dependence. Cue reactivity assessment paradigms are ideally suited to explore basic mechanisms underlying the pharmacological effects of medications that purport to have efficacy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Outdoor smoking ban at a cancer center: attitudes and smoking behavior among employees and patients.

Journal Article J Public Health Manag Pract · 2012 Policies restricting indoor worksite tobacco use began being implemented more than a decade ago. More recently, the scope of these policies has been expanding to outdoors, with hospitals leading the trend in restricting smoking throughout their grounds. Ho ... Full text Link to item Cite

Varenicline effects on craving, cue reactivity, and smoking reward.

Journal Article Psychopharmacology (Berl) · November 2011 RATIONALE: Varenicline is an α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist that has been found to be effective for treating tobacco dependence. However, the subjective and behavioral mediators of its efficacy are not known. OBJECTIVES: Using multip ... Full text Link to item Cite

The smoking N-back: a measure of biased cue processing at varying levels of cognitive load.

Journal Article Nicotine Tob Res · February 2011 INTRODUCTION: Recent cognitive models of drug addiction have emphasized attentional bias to drug-related cues. This bias manifests as increased accessibility to affect-laden drug-related content relative to less emotionally evocative stimuli and ideation. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nicotine Withdrawal

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The effect of active site-inhibited factor VIIa on tissue factor-initiated coagulation using platelets before and after aspirin administration.

Journal Article Thromb Haemost · October 1997 Active site-inactivated factor VIIa has potential as an antithrombotic agent. The effects of D-Phe-L-Phe-L-Arg-chloromethyl ketone-treated factor VIIa (FFR-FVIIa) were evaluated in a cell-based system mimicking in vivo initiation of coagulation. FFR-FVIIa ... Link to item Cite

Factors IXa and Xa play distinct roles in tissue factor-dependent initiation of coagulation.

Journal Article Blood · September 1, 1995 Tissue factor is the major initiator of coagulation. Both factor IX and factor X are activated by the complex of factor VIIa and tissue factor (VIIa/TF). The goal of this study was to determine the specific roles of factors IXa and Xa in initiating coagula ... Link to item Cite

Prison tobacco policies and litigation

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Link to item Cite