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Overview

Alex Baldacchino is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a significant focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's extensive publication record includes a range of topics centered on substance use and related disorders. Key research areas encompass:

  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Hamed Ekhtiari
  • Serenella Tolomeo
  • Parnian Rafei
  • Marc N. Potenza
  • Joseph Tay Wee Teck

Their research has appeared regularly in a selection of journals, most notably:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BJPsych International
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology

Alex Baldacchino has contributed to several notable publications, including:

  • COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders as Brain Diseases: Recommendations to a Comprehensive Healthcare Response. An International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Practice and Policy Interest Group Position Paper (2020), published in Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal
  • Reorganization of Substance Use Treatment and Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus (2022), published in Nature Protocols
  • Family members' perspectives of child protection services, a metasynthesis of the literature (2021), published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Psychological Impact of the Acute COVID-19 Period on Patients With Substance Use Disorders: We Are All in This Together (2020), published in Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal

In addition to journal articles, their work includes book publications such as Brain and cognition for addiction prevention and treatment (2021), published by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Dissociable Deficits in the Decision-Making Cognition of Chronic Amphetamine Abusers, Opiate Abusers, Patients with Focal Damage to Prefrontal Cortex, and Tryptophan-Depleted Normal Volunteers: Evidence for Monoaminergic Mechanisms

    R D Rogers;B J Everitt;A Baldacchino;A J Blackshaw

  • Profiles of cognitive dysfunction in chronic amphetamine and heroin abusers.

    TJ Ornstein;JL Iddon;AM Baldacchino;BJ Sahakian

  • Co-morbid post-traumatic stress disorder in a substance misusing clinical population.

    Martina Reynolds;Gillian Mezey;Murray Chapman;Mike Wheeler

  • Neuropsychological consequences of chronic opioid use: a quantitative review and meta-analysis.

    A. Baldacchino;D.J.K. Balfour;F. Passetti;G. Humphris

  • Staff regard towards working with substance users: a European multi-centre study

    Gail Gilchrist;Jacek Moskalewicz;Silvia Slezakova;Lubomir Okruhlica

  • Guilty until proven innocent: a qualitative study of the management of chronic non-cancer pain among patients with a history of substance abuse.

    Alex Baldacchino;Gail Gilchrist;Rod Fleming;Jonathan Bannister

  • Drugs on the web; the Psychonaut 2002 EU project.

    Fabrizio Schifano;Paolo Deluca;Alex Baldacchino;Teuvo Peltoniemi

  • Neurocognitive consequences of chronic cannabis use: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Pedro Rafael Figueiredo;Serenella Tolomeo;J. Douglas Steele;Alexander Baldacchino

  • Craving in Opioid Use Disorder : From Neurobiology to Clinical Practice

    Johan Kakko;Hannu Alho;Alexander Mario Baldacchino;Rocio Molina

  • COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders: Recommendations to a Comprehensive Healthcare Response. An International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Practice and Policy Interest Group Position Paper

    Ali Farhoudian;Alexander Mario Baldacchino;Nicolas Clark;Gilberto Gerra

  • Substance misuse of gabapentin.

    Blair H Smith;Cassie Higgins;Alex Baldacchino;Brian Kidd

  • A Roadmap for Integrating Neuroscience Into Addiction Treatment: A Consensus of the Neuroscience Interest Group of the International Society of Addiction Medicine.

    Antonio Verdejo-Garcia;Valentina Lorenzetti;Victoria Manning;Victoria Manning;Hugh Piercy;Hugh Piercy

  • Social exclusion in clients with comorbid mental health and substance misuse problems.

    J. Todd;G. Green;M. Harrison;B. A. Ikuesan

  • Reorganization of Substance Use Treatment and Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey

    Seyed Ramin Radfar;Seyed Ramin Radfar;Cornelis A J De Jong;Ali Farhoudian;Mohsen Ebrahimi

  • Impulsivity and opioid drugs: differential effects of heroin, methadone and prescribed analgesic medication

    A. Baldacchino;D. J. K. Balfour;Kent Matthews

  • Defining dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance misuse: some methodological issues.

    J. Todd;G. Green;M. Harrison;B. A. Ikuesan

  • Association between depression and non-fatal overdoses among drug users: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Francesco Bartoli;Giuseppe Carrà;Giulia Brambilla;Daniele Carretta

  • Chronic tobacco smoking and neuropsychological impairments: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    A.A. Conti;L. McLean;S. Tolomeo;J.D. Steele

  • Abnormal brain activity during a reward and loss task in opiate-dependent patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy.

    Victoria B Gradin;Alex Baldacchino;David Balfour;Keith Matthews

  • Treating an opiate-dependent inpatient population: a one-year follow-up study of treatment completers and noncompleters

    A.Hamid Ghodse;Martina Reynolds;Alexander M Baldacchino;Emma Dunmore

  • A Global Survey on Changes in the Supply, Price, and Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol, and Related Complications During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

    Ali Farhoudian;Seyed Ramin Radfar;Seyed Ramin Radfar;Hossein Mohaddes Ardabili;Parnian Rafei;Parnian Rafei

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen T. Brady
Kathleen T. Brady Medical University of South Carolina
Antonio Verdejo-García
Antonio Verdejo-García Monash University
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge
Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Marta Torrens
Marta Torrens Autonomous University of Barcelona
Victoria Manning
Victoria Manning Monash University
Salvatore Campanella
Salvatore Campanella Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Robert Hester
Robert Hester University of Melbourne

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