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Iris M. Balodis

Iris M. Balodis

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Psychology

D-Index
32
Citations
4716
World Ranking
10872
National Ranking
750

Overview

Iris M. Balodis is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with a specific emphasis on clinical psychology, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology, and applied psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including cannabis and cannabinoid research, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, gambling behavior and treatments, eating disorders and behaviors, behavioral health and interventions, homelessness and social issues, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Their recent papers include:

  • Overlapping patterns of recreational and medical cannabis use in a large community sample of cannabis users, 2020, Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Delay Discounting in Established and Proposed Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Food addiction in a large community sample of Canadian adults: prevalence and relationship with obesity, body composition, quality of life and impulsivity, 2021, Addiction
  • Multidimensional elements of impulsivity as shared and unique risk factors for food addiction and alcohol misuse, 2020, Appetite
  • Cannabis use and misuse in the year following recreational cannabis legalization in Canada: A longitudinal observational cohort study of community adults in Ontario, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Balodis include:

  • James MacKillop
  • Sarah L. Brassard
  • Kiran Punia
  • Meenu Minhas
  • James G. Murphy

The most frequent publication venues for Balodis's work are:

  • Academic Emergency Medicine
  • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Addiction
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Best Publications

  • Steep delay discounting and addictive behavior: a meta‐analysis of continuous associations

    Michael Amlung;Lana Vedelago;John Acker;Iris Balodis

  • Anticipatory Reward Processing in Addicted Populations: A Focus on the Monetary Incentive Delay Task

    Iris M. Balodis;Marc N. Potenza

  • Diminished frontostriatal activity during processing of monetary rewards and losses in pathological gambling.

    Iris M. Balodis;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Michael C. Stevens

  • Choice impulsivity: Definitions, measurement issues, and clinical implications

    Kristen R. Hamilton;Marci R. Mitchell;Victoria C. Wing;Iris M. Balodis

  • Steep discounting of delayed monetary and food rewards in obesity: a meta-analysis.

    M. Amlung;T. Petker;J. Jackson;I. Balodis

  • The neurobiology of impulsivity and substance use disorders: implications for treatment.

    Karolina Kozak;Karolina Kozak;Aliya M. Lucatch;Darby J.E. Lowe;Iris M. Balodis

  • Monetary reward processing in obese individuals with and without binge eating disorder.

    Iris M. Balodis;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Marney A. White

  • Divergent neural substrates of inhibitory control in binge eating disorder relative to other manifestations of obesity

    Iris M. Balodis;Nathan D. Molina;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky

  • Overlapping patterns of recreational and medical cannabis use in a large community sample of cannabis users

    Jasmine Turna;Iris Balodis;Catharine Munn;Michael Van Ameringen

  • Binge drinking in undergraduates: relationships with sex, drinking behaviors, impulsivity, and the perceived effects of alcohol.

    Iris M. Balodis;Marc N. Potenza;Mary C. Olmstead

  • The other side of the curve: Examining the relationship between pre-stressor physiological responses and stress reactivity

    Iris M. Balodis;Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards;Mary C. Olmstead

  • A pilot study linking reduced fronto–Striatal recruitment during reward processing to persistent bingeing following treatment for binge‐eating disorder

    Iris M. Balodis;Carlos M. Grilo;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky

  • Neurobiological features of binge eating disorder.

    Iris M. Balodis;Carlos M. Grilo;Marc N. Potenza

  • Neurobiological considerations in understanding behavioral treatments for pathological gambling.

    Marc N. Potenza;Iris M. Balodis;Christine A. Franco;Scott Bullock

  • Instructional cues modify performance on the Iowa Gambling Task

    Iris M. Balodis;Tara K. MacDonald;Mary C. Olmstead

  • A preliminary investigation of Stroop-related intrinsic connectivity in cocaine dependence: associations with treatment outcomes.

    Marci R. Mitchell;Iris M. Balodis;Elise E. DeVito;Cheryl M. Lacadie

  • A Preliminary Study of DBH (Encoding Dopamine Beta-Hydroxylase) Genetic Variation and Neural Correlates of Emotional and Motivational Processing in Individuals With and Without Pathological Gambling.

    Bao-Zhu Yang;Iris M. Balodis;Cheryl M. Lacadie;Jiansong Xu

  • Delay Discounting in Established and Proposed Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Sarah Weinsztok;Sarah Brassard;Iris Balodis;Laura E. Martin

  • Relating neural processing of reward and loss prospect to risky decision-making in individuals with and without Gambling Disorder.

    Iris M. Balodis;Jakob Linnet;Fiza Arshad;Patrick D. Worhunsky

  • Neural Correlates of Personalized Spiritual Experiences

    Lisa Miller;Iris M Balodis;Iris M Balodis;Clayton H McClintock;Jiansong Xu

  • Reward-related frontostriatal activity and smoking behavior among adolescents in treatment for smoking cessation.

    Kathleen A. Garrison;Sarah W. Yip;Iris M. Balodis;Kathleen M. Carroll

  • Binge-eating disorder: Clinical and therapeutic advances.

    Peter H. Hutson;Iris M. Balodis;Marc N. Potenza

Frequent Co-Authors

James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
Michael Amlung
Michael Amlung University of Kansas
Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha Yale University
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University
Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
Lisa Miller
Lisa Miller Columbia University
Michael Van Ameringen
Michael Van Ameringen McMaster University
Lawrence H. Sweet
Lawrence H. Sweet University of Georgia
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University

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