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Kent E. Hutchison is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work focuses predominantly on topics associated with Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Psychedelics and Drug Studies, Sleep and related disorders, and Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hutchison include:

  • Angela D. Bryan
  • L. Cinnamon Bidwell
  • Jarrod M. Ellingson
  • Hollis C. Karoly
  • Carillon J. Skrzynski

They have published extensively across a variety of academic venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE

Some of the recent academic papers authored or coauthored by Kent E. Hutchison include:

  • "An empirically derived method for measuring human gut microbiome alpha diversity: Demonstrated utility in predicting health-related outcomes among a human clinical sample" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Association of Naturalistic Administration of Cannabis Flower and Concentrates With Intoxication and Impairment" (2020) published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Identifying canonical and replicable multi-scale intrinsic connectivity networks in 100k+ resting-state fMRI datasets" (2023) published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Sex differences in the neuroanatomy of alcohol dependence: hippocampus and amygdala subregions in a sample of 966 people from the ENIGMA Addiction Working Group" (2021) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Associations between self-reported cannabis use frequency, potency, and cannabis/health metrics" (2021) published in International Journal of Drug Policy

Best Publications

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

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

  • Genetic triple dissociation reveals multiple roles for dopamine in reinforcement learning

    Michael J. Frank;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Heather M. Haughey;Tim Curran

  • Regional scale flood modeling using NEXRAD rainfall, GIS, and HEC-HMS/RAS: a case study for the San Antonio River Basin Summer 2002 storm event.

    M.R. Knebl;Z.-L. Yang;K. Hutchison;D.R. Maidment

  • A polymorphism of the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) and sensitivity to the effects of alcohol in humans.

    Lara A. Ray;Kent E. Hutchison

  • Prefrontal cortex activity is reduced in gambling and nongambling substance users during decision-making

    Jody Tanabe;Laetitia Thompson;Eric Claus;Manish Dalwani

  • A study of the influence of sex on genome wide methylation

    Jingyu Liu;Jingyu Liu;Marilee Morgan;Kent E Hutchison;Kent E Hutchison;Vince D. Calhoun;Vince D. Calhoun

  • Effects of Naltrexone on Alcohol Sensitivity and Genetic Moderators of Medication Response: A Double-blind Placebo-Controlled Study

    Lara A. Ray;Kent E. Hutchison

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

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

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

    Scott Mackey;Nicholas Allgaier;Bader Chaarani;Philip Spechler

  • Marijuana craving in the brain

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

  • Neural substrates of cue reactivity: association with treatment outcomes and relapse.

    Kelly E. Courtney;Joseph P. Schacht;Kent Hutchison;Daniel J. O. Roche

  • Cue-elicited craving for food: a fresh approach to the study of binge eating.

    Laura Sobik;Kent Hutchison;Linda Craighead

  • Naltrexone's effect on cue-elicited craving among alcoholics in treatment.

    Peter M. Monti;Damaris J. Rohsenow;Kent E. Hutchison;Robert M. Swift

  • Dopaminergic genes predict individual differences in susceptibility to confirmation bias

    Bradley B. Doll;Kent E. Hutchison;Michael J. Frank

  • Identifying Neurobiological Phenotypes Associated with Alcohol Use Disorder Severity

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

  • A transdisciplinary model integrating genetic, physiological, and psychological correlates of voluntary exercise.

    Angela Bryan;Kent E. Hutchison;Douglas R. Seals;David L. Allen

  • The DRD4 VNTR polymorphism moderates craving after alcohol consumption.

    Kent E. Hutchison;John Mcgeary;Andrew Smolen;Angela Bryan

  • Genetic contributions to avoidance-based decisions: striatal D2 receptor polymorphisms

    Michael J. Frank;Kent Hutchison

  • The DRD4 VNTR polymorphism influences reactivity to smoking cues.

    Kent E. Hutchison;Heather LaChance;Raymond Niaura;Angela Bryan

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Bryan
Angela D. Bryan University of Colorado Boulder
Lara A. Ray
Lara A. Ray University of California, Los Angeles
Francesca M. Filbey
Francesca M. Filbey The University of Texas at Dallas
L. Cinnamon Bidwell
L. Cinnamon Bidwell University of Colorado Boulder
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing University of Connecticut
Peter M. Monti
Peter M. Monti Brown University
Nicole Harlaar
Nicole Harlaar University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Damaris J. Rohsenow
Damaris J. Rohsenow Brown University
John E. McGeary
John E. McGeary Brown University
Valentina Lorenzetti
Valentina Lorenzetti Australian Catholic University

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