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James MacKillop

James MacKillop

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Psychology

D-Index
88
Citations
25588
World Ranking
1046
National Ranking
47

Overview

James MacKillop is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on Medicine and Psychology, with notable work in Genetics, Clinical Psychology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

MacKillop has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Heart Journal
  • Trials

Among their recent papers are the following works:

  • "Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience" (2021) published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "CADM2 is implicated in impulsive personality and numerous other traits by genome- and phenome-wide association studies in humans and mice" (2023) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Integrated Management Program Advancing Community Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF): A cluster randomized trial of a computerized clinical decision support tool" (2020) published in American Heart Journal
  • "Evaluation of delay discounting as a transdiagnostic research domain criteria indicator in 1388 general community adults" (2022) published in Psychological Medicine
  • "Steep Discounting of Future Rewards as an Impulsivity Phenotype: A Concise Review" (2020) published in Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

MacKillop frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Abraham A. Palmer
  • Sandra Sanchez-Roige
  • Jafna L. Cox
  • Ratika Parkash
  • Feng Xie

Best Publications

  • Delayed reward discounting and addictive behavior: a meta-analysis

    James MacKillop;James MacKillop;Michael T. Amlung;Lauren R. Few;Lara A. Ray

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Renato Polimanti;Emma C. Johnson;Jeanette N. McClintick

  • Further Psychometric Validation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)

    James MacKillop;James MacKillop;Emily J. Anderson;Emily J. Anderson

  • The Behavioral Economics of Substance Use Disorders: Reinforcement Pathologies and Their Repair

    Warren K. Bickel;Matthew W. Johnson;Mikhail N. Koffarnus;James MacKillop

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

    Michael Amlung;Lana Vedelago;John Acker;Iris Balodis

  • GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia

    Joëlle A. Pasman;Karin J. H. Verweij;Karin J. H. Verweij;Zachary Gerring;Sven Stringer

  • Relative reinforcing efficacy of alcohol among college student drinkers.

    James G. Murphy;James MacKillop

  • The latent structure of impulsivity: impulsive choice, impulsive action, and impulsive personality traits

    James MacKillop;James MacKillop;Jessica Weafer;Joshua C Gray;Joshua C Gray;Assaf Oshri

  • Examination of the Section III DSM-5 diagnostic system for personality disorders in an outpatient clinical sample

    Lauren R. Few;Joshua D. Miller;Alex O. Rothbaum;Suzanne Meller

  • Alcohol demand, delayed reward discounting, and craving in relation to drinking and alcohol use disorders.

    James MacKillop;Robert Miranda Jr.;Peter M. Monti;Lara A. Ray

  • Interrelationships among impulsive personality traits, food addiction, and Body Mass Index.

    Cara M. Murphy;Monika K. Stojek;James MacKillop

  • Delay discounting, locus of control, and cognitive impulsiveness independently predict tobacco dependence treatment outcomes in a highly dependent, lower socioeconomic group of smokers.

    Christine Sheffer;James MacKillop;John McGeary;Reid D Landes

  • Further validation of a cigarette purchase task for assessing the relative reinforcing efficacy of nicotine in college smokers.

    James MacKillop;James G. Murphy;Lara A. Ray;Daniel T. A. Eisenberg

  • Examining impulsivity as an endophenotype using a behavioral approach: a DRD2 TaqI A and DRD4 48-bp VNTR association study.

    Dan T A Eisenberg;James Mackillop;James Mackillop;Meera Modi;Joshua Beauchemin

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

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

  • Delayed reward discounting predicts treatment response for heavy drinkers receiving smoking cessation treatment

    James MacKillop;James MacKillop;Christopher W. Kahler

  • A behavioral economic measure of demand for alcohol predicts brief intervention outcomes.

    James MacKillop;James G. Murphy;James G. Murphy

  • Reliability and validity of a demand curve measure of alcohol reinforcement.

    James G. Murphy;James MacKillop;Jessica R. Skidmore;Ashley A. Pederson

  • Is Talk 'Cheap'? An Initial Investigation of the Equivalence of Alcohol Purchase Task Performance for Hypothetical and Actual Rewards

    Michael T. Amlung;John Acker;Monika K. Stojek;James G. Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Amlung
Michael Amlung University of Kansas
Lawrence H. Sweet
Lawrence H. Sweet University of Georgia
Abraham A. Palmer
Abraham A. Palmer University of California, San Diego
Harriet de Wit
Harriet de Wit University of Chicago
James G. Murphy
James G. Murphy University of Memphis
John E. McGeary
John E. McGeary Brown University
Lara A. Ray
Lara A. Ray University of California, Los Angeles
Pierre Fontanillas
Pierre Fontanillas 23andMe (United States)
Jane Metrik
Jane Metrik Brown University
Damaris J. Rohsenow
Damaris J. Rohsenow Brown University

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