Yale Research Program
on Stress, Addiction
and Psychopathology

Room S110
Connecticut Mental
Health Center
Yale University
School of Medicine
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06519

Phone: 203-974-7353
Fax: 203-974-7076

E-mail: [email protected]

Publications

Brady K, Sinha R (2005). Co-occurring mental and substance use disorders: The neurobiological effects of chronic stress. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162: 1483-1493.

Breese GR, Chu K, Dayas CV, Funk D, Knapp DJ, Koob GF, Lê AD, O’Dell LE, Overstreet DH, Roberts AJ, Sinha R, Valdez GR, Weiss F (2005). Stress enhancement of craving during sobriety and the risk of relapse. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 29(2), 185-195.

Dodge R, Sindelar J, Sinha R (2005). Role of depressive symptoms in predicting drug abstinence in outpatient substance abuse treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 28, 189-196.

Fox HC, Talih M, Malison R, Anderson G M, Kreek MJ, Sinha R (2005). Frequency of recent cocaine and alcohol use affects drug craving and associated responses to stress and drug-related cues. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30 (9): 880-91.

Hyman SM, Garcia M, Mazure CM, Sinha R. (2005). A Gender Specific Psychometric Analysis of the Early Trauma Interview Short Form in Cocaine Dependent Adults Addictive Behaviors, 30 (4), 847-852.

Li C-S, Kemp K, Milivojevic V, Sinha R (2005). Neuroimaging study of sex differences in the neuropathology of cocaine abuse. Gender Medicine, 2(3), 174-182.

Li C-S, Kosten TR, Sinha, R (2005) Sex differences in brain response to stress imagery in abstinent cocaine dependent individuals - an fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 487-494.

Li, C.-S. R., Huang, C., Constable, R.T., Sinha, R (in press). Imaging response inhibition in a stop-signal task: Neural correlates independent of post-response processing. Journal of Neuroscience.

Sinha R (2001). How does stress increase risk of drug abuse and relapse? Psychopharmacology, 158, 343-359.

Sinha R, Catapano D, O'Malley SS (1999). Stress-induced craving and stress responses in cocaine dependent individuals. Psychopharmacology, 142, 343-351.

Sinha R, Fuse T, Renee-Aubin L, O’Malley SS (2000). Psychological stress, drug cues and cocaine craving. Psychopharmacology, 152(2), 140-148.

Sinha R, Garcia M, Paliwal P, Kreek MJ, Rounsaville BJ (2005). Stress-induced cocaine craving and HPA responses predict cocaine relapse outcomes. Archives of General Psychiatry (in press)

Sinha R, Lacadie C, Skudlarski P, Fulbright RK, Kosten TR, Rounsaville BJ, Wexler, BE (2005). Neural activity associated with stress-induced cocaine craving: An fMRI study. Psychopharmacology, 183: 171-180.

Sinha R, Lacadie C, Skudlarski P, Wexler BE (2004). Neural circuits underlying emotional distress in humans. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1032, 254-257.

Sinha R, Lovallo WR, Parsons OA (1992): Cardiovascular differentiation of emotions. Psychosomatic Medicine, 54,422-435.

Sinha R, Parsons OA (1996). Multivariate response patterning of fear and anger. Cognition and Emotion, 10(2), 173-198.

Sinha R, Robinson J, O'Malley S (1998). Stress Response Dampening: Effects of gender and family history of alcoholism and anxiety. Psychopharmacology, 137, 311-320.

Sinha R, Rounsaville BJ (2002). Sex differences in depressed substance abusers. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 63 (July), 616-627.

Sinha R, Talih M, Malison, R, Anderson GA, Cooney N, Kreek MJ (2003). Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympatho-adreno-medullary responses during stress-induced and drug cue-induced cocaine craving states. Psychopharmacology, 170, 62-72.

Sinha, R. (2005). Stress and Drug Abuse. In N. H. K. T. Steckler, J.M.H.M. Reul (Ed.), Handbook of Stress and the Brain. Part 2 Stress: Integrative and Clinical Aspects (Vol. 15, pp. 333-356). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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