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Overview

Betty Jo Salmeron is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Recent publications include:

  • Pharmacological Applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • Functional Connectivity of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Cocaine Relapse: Implications for Neuromodulation Treatment, 2021, Brain Communications
  • Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Applied to the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortices in Smokers Modifies Cognitive Circuits Implicated in the Nicotine Withdrawal Syndrome, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Nicotine Dependence (Trait) and Acute Nicotinic Stimulation (State) Modulate Attention but Not Inhibitory Control: Converging fMRI Evidence from Go-Nogo and Flanker Tasks, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Disrupted Dynamic Interactions Between Large-Scale Brain Networks in Cocaine Users Are Associated With Dependence Severity, 2022, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Betty Jo Salmeron include:

  • Thomas J. Ross
  • Elliot A. Stein
  • Tianye Zhai
  • Hong Gu
  • Amy C. Janes

Common venues for publishing their research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving: Neuroanatomical Specificity for Drug Users and Drug Stimuli

    Hugh Garavan;John Pankiewicz;Alan Bloom;Jung-Ki Cho

  • Mesocorticolimbic circuits are impaired in chronic cocaine users as demonstrated by resting-state functional connectivity.

    Hong Gu;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Xiujuan Geng

  • Association of nicotine addiction and nicotine's actions with separate cingulate cortex functional circuits.

    L. Elliot Hong;Hong Gu;Yihong Yang;Thomas J. Ross

  • Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead

    Hamed Ekhtiari;Hosna Tavakoli;Giovanni Addolorato;Chris Baeken

  • Neural correlates of high and craving during cocaine self-administration using BOLD fMRI.

    Robert C. Risinger;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Shelley L. Amen

  • Mega-Analysis of Gray Matter Volume in Substance Dependence: General and Substance-Specific Regional Effects

    Scott Mackey;Nicholas Allgaier;Bader Chaarani;Philip Spechler

  • Impaired Functional Connectivity Within and Between Frontostriatal Circuits and Its Association With Compulsive Drug Use and Trait Impulsivity in Cocaine Addiction

    Yuzheng Hu;Betty Jo Salmeron;Hong Gu;Elliot A. Stein

  • Patients with Schizophrenia have a Reduced Neural Response to Both Unpredictable and Predictable Primary Reinforcers

    James A Waltz;Julie B Schweitzer;James M Gold;Pradeep K Kurup

  • Factors underlying prefrontal and insula structural alterations in smokers

    Xiaochu Zhang;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Xiujuan Geng

  • Cocaine administration decreases functional connectivity in human primary visual and motor cortex as detected by functional MRI

    Shi Jiang Li;Bharat Biswal;Zhu Li;Robert Risinger

  • A genetically modulated, intrinsic cingulate circuit supports human nicotine addiction

    L. Elliot Hong;Colin A. Hodgkinson;Yihong Yang;Hemalatha Sampath

  • Abnormal Responses to Monetary Outcomes in Cortex, but not in the Basal Ganglia, in Schizophrenia

    James A Waltz;Julie B Schweitzer;Thomas J Ross;Pradeep K Kurup

  • Imaging Genetics and Genomics in Psychiatry: A Critical Review of Progress and Potential.

    Ryan Bogdan;Betty Jo Salmeron;Caitlin E. Carey;Arpana Agrawal

  • Interactions between the salience and default-mode networks are disrupted in cocaine addiction.

    Xia Liang;Yong He;Betty Jo Salmeron;Hong Gu

  • Down-regulation of amygdala and insula functional circuits by varenicline and nicotine in abstinent cigarette smokers.

    Matthew T. Sutherland;Allison J. Carroll;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross

  • The Roles of Reward, Default, and Executive Control Networks in Set-Shifting Impairments in Schizophrenia

    James A. Waltz;Zuzana Kasanova;Thomas J. Ross;Betty J. Salmeron

  • Anatomical differences and network characteristics underlying smoking cue reactivity

    Xiaochu Zhang;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Hong Gu

  • Effects of methylphenidate on functional MRI blood-oxygen-level-dependent contrast.

    Stephen M. Rao;Betty Jo Salmeron;Sally Durgerian;Judi A. Janowiak

  • Nicotine Enhances but Does Not Normalize Visual Sustained Attention and the Associated Brain Network in Schizophrenia

    L. Elliot Hong;Matthew Schroeder;Thomas J. Ross;Brittany Buchholz

  • Insula's functional connectivity with ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediates the impact of trait alexithymia on state tobacco craving.

    Matthew T. Sutherland;Matthew T. Sutherland;Allison J. Carroll;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot A. Stein
Elliot A. Stein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Thomas J. Ross
Thomas J. Ross National Institute on Drug Abuse
Yihong Yang
Yihong Yang National Institute on Drug Abuse
Hong Gu
Hong Gu National Institute on Drug Abuse
Stephen M. Rao
Stephen M. Rao Cleveland Clinic
Mariellen Fischer
Mariellen Fischer Associated Mental Health Consultants
Lisa L. Conant
Lisa L. Conant Medical College of Wisconsin
L. Elliot Hong
L. Elliot Hong University of Maryland, Baltimore
Russell A. Barkley
Russell A. Barkley Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore

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