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Overview

Francesca M. Filbey is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in the subfields of Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Mental Health Research Topics, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Francesca M. Filbey has published numerous papers in various scientific journals. Some recent papers include:

  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus (2022, Nature Protocols)
  • Are Sweet Dreams Made of These? Understanding the Relationship Between Sleep and Cannabis Use (2021, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research)
  • Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity (2024, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Alcohol Use Disorder and Cannabis Use Disorder Symptomatology in Adolescents and Aggression: Associations With Recruitment of Neural Regions Implicated in Retaliation (2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging)
  • Alcohol Use Disorder, But Not Cannabis Use Disorder, Symptomatology in Adolescents Is Associated With Reduced Differential Responsiveness to Reward Versus Punishment Feedback During Instrumental Learning (2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging)

Frequent coauthors of Francesca M. Filbey include:

  • Janna Cousijn
  • Emese Kroon
  • Lauren Kuhns
  • James Blair
  • Karina S. Blair

The venues where Francesca M. Filbey commonly publishes are:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Addiction Biology
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • A Baseline for the Multivariate Comparison of Resting-State Networks

    Elena A. Allen;Erik B. Erhardt;Eswar Damaraju;William Gruner;William Gruner

  • Regional Brain Morphometry in Patients With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder and Their Unaffected Relatives

    Colm McDonald;Nicolette Marshall;Pak C. Sham;Edward T. Bullmore

  • Long-term effects of marijuana use on the brain

    Francesca M. Filbey;Sina Aslan;Vince D. Calhoun;Jeffrey S. Spence

  • Is the P300 wave an endophenotype for schizophrenia? A meta-analysis and a family study.

    Elvira Bramon;Colm McDonald;Rodney J. Croft;Sabine Landau

  • Exposure to the taste of alcohol elicits activation of the mesocorticolimbic neurocircuitry.

    Francesca M Filbey;Eric Claus;Amy R Audette;Michelle Niculescu

  • Marijuana craving in the brain

    Francesca M. Filbey;Joseph P. Schacht;Ursula S. Myers;Robert S. Chavez

  • Association between BDNF val66 met genotype and episodic memory

    Emma Dempster;Timothea Toulopoulou;Colm McDonald;Elvira Bramon

  • Identifying Neurobiological Phenotypes Associated with Alcohol Use Disorder Severity

    Eric D Claus;Sarah W Feldstein Ewing;Francesca M Filbey;Amithrupa Sabbineni

  • Differential Neural Response to Alcohol Priming and Alcohol Taste Cues Is Associated With DRD4 VNTR and OPRM1 Genotypes

    Francesca M. Filbey;Lara Ray;Lara Ray;Andrew Smolen;Eric D. Claus

  • CHRNA4 and Tobacco Dependence From Gene Regulation to Treatment Outcome

    Kent E. Hutchison;David L. Allen;Francesca M. Filbey;Christopher Jepson

  • Individual and additive effects of the CNR1 and FAAH genes on brain response to marijuana cues.

    Francesca M Filbey;Joseph P Schacht;Joseph P Schacht;Ursula S Myers;Robert S Chavez

  • Associations between cannabinoid receptor-1 (CNR1) variation and hippocampus and amygdala volumes in heavy cannabis users

    Joseph P Schacht;Kent E Hutchison;Francesca M Filbey

  • Association Between Nicotine Dependence Severity, BOLD Response to Smoking Cues, and Functional Connectivity

    Eric D Claus;Sara K Blaine;Francesca M Filbey;Andrew R Mayer

  • Age-related increase of resting metabolic rate in the human brain

    Shin Lei Peng;Shin Lei Peng;Julie A. Dumas;Denise C. Park;Peiying Liu

  • Functional connectivity in inhibitory control networks and severity of cannabis use disorder

    Francesca Filbey;Uma Yezhuvath

  • The Incentive Salience of Alcohol: Translating the Effects of Genetic Variant in CNR1

    Kent E. Hutchison;Heather Haughey;Michelle Niculescu;Joe Schacht

  • How psychosocial alcohol interventions work: a preliminary look at what FMRI can tell us.

    Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing;Francesca M. Filbey;Francesca M. Filbey;Amithrupa Sabbineni;Lindsay D. Chandler

  • Reward circuit function in high BMI individuals with compulsive overeating: Similarities with addiction

    Francesca M. Filbey;Ursula S. Myers;Samuel DeWitt

  • Differential reward network functional connectivity in cannabis dependent and non-dependent users

    Francesca M. Filbey;Joseph Dunlop

  • fMRI study of neural sensitization to hedonic stimuli in long-term, daily cannabis users.

    Francesca M. Filbey;Joseph Dunlop;Ariel Ketcherside;Jessica Baine

  • Dopamine efflux in response to ultraviolet radiation in addicted sunbed users.

    Pamela M. Aubert;John P. Seibyl;Julianne L. Price;Thomas S. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Kent E. Hutchison
Kent E. Hutchison University of Colorado Boulder
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing University of Connecticut
Elvira Bramon
Elvira Bramon University College London
Janna Cousijn
Janna Cousijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Angela D. Bryan
Angela D. Bryan University of Colorado Boulder
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
Lara A. Ray
Lara A. Ray University of California, Los Angeles
Amy E. Pinkham
Amy E. Pinkham The University of Texas at Dallas
Staci A. Gruber
Staci A. Gruber Harvard University
Hervé Abdi
Hervé Abdi The University of Texas at Dallas

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