Publications
, 2018. Stressful life events are associated with perinatal cigarette smoking. Prev Med 118:264-271
, 2018. Exploring the Association of Hypertension With Risk for Depression: Evidence for Tamed Neurobehavioral Arousal Versus Central Emotional Dysregulation. Psychosom Med 80(6):504-507
, 2018. Thirsting to understand the temporal dynamics of physical activity and alcohol use. Br J Sports Med 52(18):1158-1159
, 2018. Stress and Addiction: When a Robust Stress Response Indicates Resiliency. Psychosom Med 80(1):2-16
, 2018. Changes in circulating peptide YY and ghrelin are associated with early smoking relapse. Biol Psychol 131:43-48
, 2018. Hormonal contraceptive use in smokers: Prevalence of use and associations with smoking motives. Addict Behav 77:187-192
, 2018. The Neuroscience of Pain: Biobehavioral, Developmental, and Psychosocial Mechanisms Relevant to Intervention Targets. Psychosom Med 80(9):788-790
, 2018. Stress response pathways, appetite regulation, and drug addiction. Biol Psychol 131:1-4
, 2018. Influences of the Menstrual Phase on Cortisol Response to Stress in Nicotine Dependent Women: A Preliminary Examination. Nicotine Tob Res.
, 2018. Anger, anxiety, and depressive affect as predictors of stress-induced cortisol production in khat and tobacco users. Addict Behav 82:195-201
, 2018. Development of the Khat Knowledge, Attitudes and Perception Scale. Drug Alcohol Rev 37(6):802-809
, 2018. Exposure to community and collective violence during childhood and tobacco use patterns among young adults in Tunisia. Health Soc Care Community 26(6):935-945
, 2018. Circulating orexin changes during withdrawal are associated with nicotine craving and risk for smoking relapse. Addict Biol.
, 2018. Impact of early life adversity on the stress biobehavioral response during nicotine withdrawal. Psychoneuroendocrinology 98:108-118
, 2018. Childhood exposure to violence is associated with risk for mental disorders and adult's weight status: a community-based study in Tunisia. J Public Health (Oxf).
, 2018. Effect of Immediate vs Gradual Reduction in Nicotine Content of Cigarettes on Biomarkers of Smoke Exposure: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 320(9):880-891
, 2018. Association of exercise with smoking-related symptomatology, smoking behavior and impulsivity in men and women. Drug Alcohol Depend 192:29-37
, 2017. Effects of 6-Week Use of Reduced-Nicotine Content Cigarettes in Smokers With and Without Elevated Depressive Symptoms. Nicotine Tob Res 19(1):59-67
, 2017. Sex differences in physiological response to the combination of stress and smoking. Int J Psychophysiol 118:27-31
, 2017. Reduced nicotine content cigarettes and use of alternative nicotine products: exploratory trial. Addiction 112(1):156-167
, 2017. Reducing nicotine exposure results in weight gain in smokers randomised to very low nicotine content cigarettes. Tob Control 26(e1):e43-e48
, 2017. Gender differences in adverse childhood experiences, collective violence, and the risk for addictive behaviors among university students in Tunisia. Prev Med 99:99-104
, 2017. Level of khat dependence, use patterns, and psychosocial correlates in Yemen: a cross-sectional investigation. East Mediterr Health J 23(3):161-167
, 2017. Khat use and related addiction, mental health and physical disorders: the need to address a growing risk. East Mediterr Health J 23(3):236-244
, 2017. Correlates of khat use during pregnancy: A cross-sectional study. Addict Behav 73:178-184
, 2017. Stress Exposure and Physical, Mental, and Behavioral Health among American Indian Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. Int J Environ Res Public Health 14.
, 2017. Khat Use is Associated with Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illicit Drug Use: A Cross-Sectional Examination in the United States. J Psychoactive Drugs 49(5):413-419
, 2017. Toward a Biopsychosocial Ecology of the Human Microbiome, Brain-Gut Axis, and Health. Psychosom Med 79(8):947-957
, 2017. Early life adversity influences stress response association with smoking relapse. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 234(22):3375-3384
, 2017. Smokers report lower intake of key nutrients than nonsmokers, yet both fall short of meeting recommended intakes. Nutr Res 45:30-37
, 2017. Differences in mood and cortisol by menstrual phase during acute smoking abstinence: A within-subject comparison. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 25(5):338-345
, 2017. Building Bridges through Science. Neuron 96(4):730-735
, 2017. Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). IEEE Pervasive Comput 16(2):18-22
, 2017. mHealth Visual Discovery Dashboard. Proc ACM Int Conf Ubiquitous Comput 2017:237-240
, 2017. Long term effect of a school based intervention to prevent chronic diseases in Tunisia, 2009-2015. Afr Health Sci 17(4):1137-1148
, 2016. Chronic Smoking, Trait Anxiety, and the Physiological Response to Stress. Subst Use Misuse 51(12):1619-1628
, 2016. Assessment of the validity of self-reported smoking status among schoolchildren in Sousse, Tunisia. Int J Adolesc Med Health 28(2):211-6
, 2016. Khat use is a neglected addictive behaviour. Addiction 111(1):179-80
, 2016. Stress psychobiology in the context of addiction medicine: from drugs of abuse to behavioral addictions. Prog Brain Res 223:43-62
, 2016. Life adversity is associated with smoking relapse after a quit attempt. Addict Behav 60:71-7
, 2016. The Impact of Smoking Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes on Alcohol Use. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 40(3):606-15
, 2016. Correlates of Concurrent Khat and Tobacco Use in Yemen. Subst Use Misuse 51(12):1535-1541
, 2016. Finding Significant Stress Episodes in a Discontinuous Time Series of Rapidly Varying Mobile Sensor Data. Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst 2016:4489-4501
, 2016. Evaluation of a reduced nicotine product standard: Moderating effects of and impact on cannabis use. Drug Alcohol Depend 167:228-32
, 2016. Anger Expression Style Predicts the Domain of the First Smoking Relapse After a Quit Attempt. Subst Use Misuse 51(13):1810-4
, 2016. Psychometric Examination of an Arabic Version of the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J 16(3):e322-8
, 2016. mCrave: Continuous Estimation of Craving During Smoking Cessation. Proc ACM Int Conf Ubiquitous Comput 2016:863-874
, 2015. Circulating leptin and pain perception among tobacco-dependent individuals. Biol Psychol 107:10-5
, 2015. Khat use and appetite: an overview and comparison of amphetamine, khat and cathinone. J Ethnopharmacol 160:78-85
, 2015. The effect of combination oral contraceptives on smoking-related symptomatology during short-term smoking abstinence. Addict Behav 41:148-51
, 2015. Subjective response to nicotine by menstrual phase. Addict Behav 43:50-3
, 2015. Allopregnanolone association with psychophysiological and cognitive functions during acute smoking abstinence in premenopausal women. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 23(1):22-8
, 2015. Khat chewing and acculturation in East-African migrants living in Frankfurt am Main/Germany. J Ethnopharmacol 164:223-8
, 2015. Opportunistic insights into occupational health hazards associated with waterpipe tobacco smoking premises in the United Kingdom. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 16(2):621-6
, 2015. Sex differences in hormonal responses to stress and smoking relapse: a prospective examination. Nicotine Tob Res 17(4):382-9
, 2015. Associations between adrenocortical activity and nicotine response in female smokers by menstrual phase. Addict Behav 50:135-9
, 2015. Changes in circulating leptin levels during the initial stage of cessation are associated with smoking relapse. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 232(18):3355-61
, 2015. Immunohistochemical localization of anterior pituitary cell types of vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops) following sub-chronic cathinone exposure. J Ethnopharmacol 174:168-77
, 2015. Randomized Trial of Reduced-Nicotine Standards for Cigarettes. N Engl J Med 373(14):1340-9
, 2015. Household food insecurity and mental distress among pregnant women in Southwestern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study design. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 15:250
, 2015. cStress: Towards a Gold Standard for Continuous Stress Assessment in the Mobile Environment. Proc ACM Int Conf Ubiquitous Comput 2015:493-504
, 2015. puffMarker: A Multi-Sensor Approach for Pinpointing the Timing of First Lapse in Smoking Cessation. Proc ACM Int Conf Ubiquitous Comput 2015:999-1010
, 2015. Center of excellence for mobile sensor data-to-knowledge (MD2K). J Am Med Inform Assoc 22(6):1137-42
, 2015. Global research challenges and opportunities for mental health and substance-use disorders. Nature 527(7578):S172-7
, 2014. Cortisol levels decrease after acute tobacco abstinence in regular smokers. Hum Psychopharmacol 29(2):152-62
, 2014. Clustering of risk factors in the smoking habits of schoolchildren in Sousse, Tunisia. Int J Adolesc Med Health 26(2):267-73
, 2014. Poor working memory and reduced blood pressure levels in concurrent users of khat and tobacco. Nicotine Tob Res 16(3):279-87
, 2014. Waterpipe tobacco dependence in U.K. male adult residents: a cross-sectional study. Nicotine Tob Res 16(3):316-25
, 2014. Acute and sub-chronic effects of purified cathinone from khat (Catha edulis) on behavioural profiles in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops). Metab Brain Dis 29(2):441-9
, 2014. Dose-response inhibitory effects of purified cathinone from khat (Catha edulis) on cortisol and prolactin release in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops). Metab Brain Dis 29(2):451-8
, 2014. Are We There Yet? Feasibility of Continuous Stress Assessment via Wireless Physiological Sensors. ACM BCB 2014:479-488
, 2014. Peptide YY and ghrelin predict craving and risk for relapse in abstinent smokers. Psychoneuroendocrinology 49:253-9
, 2014. Smoking- and menstrual-related symptomatology during short-term smoking abstinence by menstrual phase and depressive symptoms. Addict Behav 39(5):901-6
, 2014. Concurrent tobacco and khat use is associated with blunted cardiovascular stress response and enhanced negative mood: a cross-sectional investigation. Hum Psychopharmacol 29(4):307-15
, 2014. Sex differences in response to reduced nicotine content cigarettes. Addict Behav 39(7):1197-204
, 2014. Habitual khat and concurrent khat and tobacco use are associated with subjective sleep quality. Prev Chronic Dis 11:E86
, 2014. Nicotine withdrawal and stress-induced changes in pain sensitivity: a cross-sectional investigation between abstinent smokers and nonsmokers. Psychophysiology 51(10):1015-22
, 2014. Changes in circulating leptin levels during acute stress and associations with craving in abstinent smokers: a preliminary investigation. Psychoneuroendocrinology 47:232-40
, 2014. Severity of khat dependence among adult khat chewers: the moderating influence of gender and age. J Ethnopharmacol 155(3):1467-72
, 2014. Khat Use, PTSD and Psychotic Symptoms among Somali Refugees in Nairobi - A Pilot Study. Front Public Health 2:71
, 2013. Working memory and speed of information processing in chronic khat users: preliminary findings. Eur Addict Res 19(1):1-6
, 2013. Menstrual phase and depressive symptoms differences in physiological response to nicotine following acute smoking abstinence. Nicotine Tob Res 15(6):1091-8
, 2013. Gender differences in patterns and correlates of khat and tobacco use. Nicotine Tob Res 15(6):1130-5
, 2013. Khat dependence syndrome: a cross sectional preliminary evaluation amongst UK-resident Yemeni khat chewers. J Ethnopharmacol 146(3):835-41
, 2013. Stress response dysregulation and stress-induced analgesia in nicotine dependent men and women. Biol Psychol 93(1):1-8
, 2013. Psychophysiological responses to stress following alcohol intake in social drinkers who are at risk of hazardous drinking. Biol Psychol 93(1):9-16
, 2013. Effects of chronic khat use on cardiovascular, adrenocortical, and psychological responses to stress in men and women. Am J Addict 22(2):99-107
, 2013. Concurrent use of khat and tobacco is associated with verbal learning and delayed recall deficits. Addiction 108(10):1855-62
, 2013. Reduced nicotine content cigarettes and nicotine patch. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 22(6):1015-24
, 2013. Psychosocial deterrents of tobacco and khat use among men and women. Public Health 127(7):684-6
, 2013. Menstrual phase, depressive symptoms, and allopregnanolone during short-term smoking cessation. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 21(6):427-33
, 2013. Patterns of change in affect and adrenocortical activity over an extended period of smoking abstinence. Psychol Addict Behav 27(4):1189-95
, 2013. Clustering of risk factors with smoking habits among adults, Sousse, Tunisia. Prev Chronic Dis 10:E211
, 2013. Effect of paroxetine on physiological response to stress and smoking. Psychosom Med 75(3):236-43
, 2012. An examination of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence among concurrent tobacco and khat users. J Psychoactive Drugs 44(5):437-41
, 2012. Realizing talent: Arab science must help itself. Nature 489(7416):367
, 2012. Predictors of risk for smoking relapse in men and women: a prospective examination. Psychol Addict Behav 26(3):633-7
, 2012. Concurrent use of tobacco and khat: added burden on chronic disease epidemic. Addiction 107(2):451-2
, 2012. Exposure to acute stress is associated with attenuated sweet taste. Psychophysiology 49(1):96-103
, 2011. Evaluation of a domain-specific anger expression assessment strategy. J Pers Assess 93(1):56-61
, 2011. Circulating leptin levels are associated with increased craving to smoke in abstinent smokers. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 97(3):509-13
, 2011. Khat use and trait anger: effects on affect regulation during an acute stressful challenge. Eur Addict Res 17(6):285-91
, 2011. Effect of stress and bupropion on craving, withdrawal symptoms, and mood in smokers. Nicotine Tob Res 13(6):492-7
, 2011. Enhanced pain perception prior to smoking cessation is associated with early relapse. Biol Psychol 88(1):141-6
, 2010. Khat use and neurobehavioral functions: suggestions for future studies. J Ethnopharmacol 132(3):554-63
, 2010. Blunted opiate modulation of prolactin response in smoking men and women. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 95(1):1-5
, 2009. Sex-specific associations of body mass index with mood disturbance during smoking abstinence. Neuropsychobiology 60(1):37-43
, 2009. Patterns of cortisol and craving by menstrual phase in women attempting to quit smoking. Addict Behav 34(8):632-5
, 2008. Naltrexone effect on physiological and subjective response to a cold pressor task. Biol Psychol 77(2):233-6
, 2008. Effects of naltrexone on electrocutaneous pain in patients with hypertension compared to normotensive individuals. Biol Psychol 77(2):191-6
, 2008. Blunted opiate modulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activity in men and women who smoke. Psychosom Med 70(8):928-35
, 2008. Physiological and psychological symptoms and predictors in early nicotine withdrawal. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 89(3):272-8
, 2008. Attenuated beta endorphin response to acute stress is associated with smoking relapse. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 90(3):357-62
, 2007. Nociceptive flexion reflex thresholds and pain during rest and computer game play in patients with hypertension and individuals at risk for hypertension. Biol Psychol 76(1-2):72-82
, 2007. Anger and psychobiological changes during smoking abstinence and in response to acute stress: prediction of smoking relapse. Int J Psychophysiol 66(2):109-15
, 2007. Anger management style and endogenous opioid function: is gender a moderator? J Behav Med 30(3):209-19
, 2007. Nociceptive flexion reflex and pain rating responses during endogenous opiate blockade with naltrexone in healthy young adults. Biol Psychol 75(1):95-100
, 2007. Effects of opioid blockade with naltrexone and distraction on cold and ischemic pain in hypertension. J Behav Med 30(1):59-68
, 2007. Influence of naltrexone administration on dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in male and female participants. Biol Psychol 74(3):414-6
, 2006. Adrenocortical and nociceptive responses to opioid blockade in hypertension-prone men and women. Psychosom Med 68(2):292-8
, 2006. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical responses to psychological stress and risk for smoking relapse. Int J Psychophysiol 59(3):218-27
, 2006. Blood pressure stress reactivity and left ventricular mass in a random community sample of African-American and caucasian men and women. Am J Cardiol 97(2):240-4
, 2006. Sex differences in the hemodynamic responses to mental stress: Effect of caffeine consumption. Psychophysiology 43(4):337-43
, 2006. Effect of bupropion on physiological measures of stress in smokers during nicotine withdrawal. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 83(3):370-9
, 2006. The short-term effect of water-pipe smoking on the baroreflex control of heart rate in normotensives. Auton Neurosci 126-127:146-9
, 2006. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, cortisol, mood state and smoking cessation: relationship to relapse status at 4-week follow-up. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 85(1):23-8
, 2006. Neuroendocrine and behavioral mechanisms mediating the relationship between anger expression and cardiovascular risk: assessment considerations and improvements. J Behav Med 29(6):573-91
, 2005. Domain-specific anger expression and blood pressure in an occupational setting. J Psychosom Res 58(1):43-9
, 2005. Nociception and baroreceptor stimulation in hypertension-prone men and women. Psychophysiology 42(1):83-91
, 2005. Caffeine stimulation of cortisol secretion across the waking hours in relation to caffeine intake levels. Psychosom Med 67(5):734-9
, 2005. Attenuated adrenocorticotropic responses to psychological stress are associated with early smoking relapse. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 181(1):107-17
, 2005. How accurate are parental chronic pain histories provided by offspring? Pain 115(3):390-7
, 2005. Assessment of opiate modulation of pain and nociceptive responding in young adults with a parental history of hypertension. Biol Psychol 70(3):168-74
, 2004. Salivary cortisol concentrations are associated with acute nicotine withdrawal. Addict Behav 29(8):1673-8
, 2004. The effect of acute stress on subsequent neuropsychological test performance (2003). Arch Clin Neuropsychol 19(4):497-506
, 2004. Sex differences in pain and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical responses to opioid blockade. Psychosom Med 66(2):198-206
, 2004. Prospective examination of effects of smoking abstinence on cortisol and withdrawal symptoms as predictors of early smoking relapse. Drug Alcohol Depend 73(3):267-78
, 2003. Attenuated adrenocortical and blood pressure responses to psychological stress in ad libitum and abstinent smokers. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 74(2):401-10
, 2003. Enhanced adrenocortical responses to stress in hypertension-prone men and women. Ann Behav Med 25(1):25-33
, 2003. Blood pressure but not cortisol mediates stress effects on subsequent pain perception in healthy men and women. Pain 106(3):285-95
, 2002. Catastrophizing is related to pain ratings, but not nociceptive flexion reflex threshold. Pain 99(3):459-63
, 2002. Adrenocortical stress responses and altered working memory performance. Psychophysiology 39(1):95-9
, 2002. Psychophysiological effects of nicotine abstinence and behavioral challenges in habitual smokers. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 72(3):707-16
, 2002. Adrenocortical and hemodynamic predictors of pain perception in men and women. Pain 96(1-2):197-204
, 2002. Blood pressure responses to acute stress and left ventricular mass (The Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network Study). Am J Cardiol 89(5):536-40
, 2001. Multimodal assessment of the effect of chewing gum on nicotine withdrawal. Addict Behav 26(2):289-95
, 2000. Additive pressor effects of caffeine and stress in male medical students at risk for hypertension. Am J Hypertens 13(5 Pt 1):475-81
, 2000. Adrenocorticotropin responses to interpersonal stress: effects of overt anger expression style and defensiveness. Int J Psychophysiol 37(3):257-65
, 2000. Adrenocortical responses to psychological stress and risk for hypertension. Biomed Pharmacother 54(5):234-44
, 2000. Blood pressure but not parental history for hypertension predicts pain perception in women. Pain 88(1):61-8
, 1999. Sex differences in pain perception and cardiovascular responses in persons with parental history for hypertension. Pain 83(2):331-8
, 1999. Cortisol fluctuates with increases and decreases in negative affect. Psychoneuroendocrinology 24(2):227-41
, 1998. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical responses to psychological stress and caffeine in men at high and low risk for hypertension. Psychosom Med 60(4):521-7
, 1998. Interactive effects of trait hostility and anger expression on cardiovascular reactivity in young men. Int J Psychophysiol 28(2):181-91
, 1998. Hemodynamics during rest and behavioral stress in normotensive men at high risk for hypertension. Psychophysiology 35(1):47-53
, 1997. Men at risk for hypertension show elevated vascular resistance at rest and during mental stress. Int J Psychophysiol 25(3):185-92
, 1997. Cardiovascular and neuroendocrine adjustment to public speaking and mental arithmetic stressors. Psychophysiology 34(3):266-75
, 1997. Cardiovascular responses during effortful active coping and acute experience of anger in women. Psychophysiology 34(4):459-66
, 1996. Pain perception and cardiovascular responses in men with positive parental history for hypertension. Psychophysiology 33(6):655-61
, 1996. Stress-like adrenocorticotropin responses to caffeine in young healthy men. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 55(3):365-9
, 1996. Caffeine and behavioral stress effects on blood pressure in borderline hypertensive Caucasian men. Health Psychol 15(1):11-17
, 1995. Hypertension risk factors and cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress in young men. Int J Psychophysiol 20(3):155-60
, 1995. Adrenocortical effects of caffeine at rest and during mental stress in borderline hypertensive men. Int J Behav Med 2(3):263-75
, 1994. Prolonged increase in blood pressure by a single oral dose of caffeine in mildly hypertensive men. Am J Hypertens 7(8):755-8
, 1994. Borderline hypertensives produce exaggerated adrenocortical responses to mental stress. Psychosom Med 56(3):245-50
, 1993. Cortisol concentrations in serum of borderline hypertensive men exposed to a novel experimental setting. Psychoneuroendocrinology 18(5-6):355-63
, 1992. Matching pain coping strategies to the individual: a prospective validation of the cognitive coping strategy inventory. J Behav Med 15(6):611-25
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