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Kenzie L. Preston is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and psychology, with particular emphasis on substance use and mental health. The main fields of study include Medicine and Psychology, supported by subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Applied Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several primary research topics including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Kenzie L. Preston include:

  • "Digitizing clinical trials," 2020, npj Digital Medicine
  • "Prediction of stress and drug craving ninety minutes in the future with passively collected GPS data," 2020, npj Digital Medicine
  • "Beyond abstinence and relapse: cluster analysis of drug-use patterns during treatment as an outcome measure for clinical trials," 2020, Psychopharmacology
  • "Beyond abstinence and relapse II: momentary relationships between stress, craving, and lapse within clusters of patients with similar patterns of drug use," 2021, Psychopharmacology
  • "Craving mediates the association between momentary pain and illicit opioid use during treatment for opioid-use disorder: an ecological momentary assessment study," 2020, Addiction

Their research has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • npj Digital Medicine
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Collaboration has been a consistent part of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • David H. Epstein
  • Karran A. Phillips
  • Leigh V. Panlilio
  • Jeremiah W. Bertz
  • Albert J. Burgess-Hull

Best Publications

  • Clinical Pharmacology of Buprenorphine: Ceiling Effects at High Doses

    S. L. Walsh;K. L. Preston;M. L. Stitzer;E. J. Cone

  • Toward a model of drug relapse: an assessment of the validity of the reinstatement procedure.

    David H. Epstein;David H. Epstein;Kenzie L. Preston;Jane Stewart;Yavin Shaham

  • Blockade of effects of smoked marijuana by the CB1-selective cannabinoid receptor antagonist SR141716.

    Marilyn A. Huestis;David A. Gorelick;Stephen J. Heishman;Kenzie L. Preston

  • Sustained Cocaine Abstinence in Methadone Maintenance Patients Through Voucher-Based Reinforcement Therapy

    Kenneth Silverman;Stephen T. Higgins;Robert K. Brooner;Ivan D. Montoya;Ivan D. Montoya

  • Acute administration of buprenorphine in humans: Partial agonist and blockade effects

    S. L. Walsh;Kenzie L. Preston;G. E. Bigelow;M. L. Stitzer

  • The reinforcing and subjective effects of morphine in post-addicts: a dose-response study.

    Richard J Lamb;K. L. Preston;C. W. Schindler;R. A. Meisch

  • Real-time electronic-diary reports of cue exposure and mood in the hours before cocaine and heroin craving and use

    David H. Epstein;Jessica Willner-Reid;Massoud Vahabzadeh;Mustapha Mezghanni

  • Abuse potential and pharmacological comparison of tramadol and morphine

    Kenzie L. Preston;Donald R. Jasinski;Margaret Testa

  • Incubation of Cue-Induced Cigarette Craving During Abstinence in Human Smokers

    Gillinder Bedi;Gillinder Bedi;Kenzie L. Preston;David H. Epstein;Stephen J. Heishman

  • Broad beneficial effects of cocaine abstinence reinforcement among methadone patients.

    Kenneth Silverman;Conrad J. Wong;Annie Umbricht-Schneiter;Ivan D. Montoya;Ivan D. Montoya

  • Low-dose caffeine physical dependence in humans.

    R R Griffiths;S M Evans;S J Heishman;K L Preston

  • Improvement in naltrexone treatment compliance with contingency management.

    Kenzie L. Preston;Kenneth Silverman;Annie Umbricht;Anna DeJesus

  • Primary outcome indices in illicit drug dependence treatment research: systematic approach to selection and measurement of drug use end‐points in clinical trials

    Dennis M. Donovan;George E. Bigelow;Gregory S. Brigham;Kathleen M. Carroll

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy plus contingency management for cocaine use: findings during treatment and across 12-month follow-up.

    David H. Epstein;Wesley E. Hawkins;Lino Covi;Annie Umbricht

  • Increasing opiate abstinence through voucher-based reinforcement therapy

    Kenneth Silverman;Kenneth Silverman;Conrad J. Wong;Stephen T. Higgins;Robert K. Brooner

  • Methadone dose increase and abstinence reinforcement for treatment of continued heroin use during methadone maintenance.

    Kenzie L. Preston;Annie Umbricht;David H. Epstein

  • Stress in the daily lives of cocaine and heroin users: relationship to mood, craving, relapse triggers, and cocaine use

    Kenzie L. Preston;David H. Epstein

  • Subjective and discriminative effects of drugs.

    Preston Kl;Bigelow Ge

  • Pathological Gambling Among Cocaine-Dependent Outpatients

    Gladys W. Hall;Nicholas J. Carriero;Ruby Y. Takushi;Ivan D. Montoya

  • Single and multiple doses of rimonabant antagonize acute effects of smoked cannabis in male cannabis users

    Marilyn A. Huestis;Susan J. Boyd;Susan J. Boyd;Stephen J. Heishman;Kenzie L. Preston

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Epstein
David H. Epstein National Institute on Drug Abuse
George E. Bigelow
George E. Bigelow Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Edward J. Cone
Edward J. Cone Johns Hopkins University
Marilyn A. Huestis
Marilyn A. Huestis National Institute on Drug Abuse
Maxine L. Stitzer
Maxine L. Stitzer Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Roland R. Griffiths
Roland R. Griffiths Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kenneth Silverman
Kenneth Silverman Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Warren K. Bickel
Warren K. Bickel Virginia Tech
Stephen T. Higgins
Stephen T. Higgins University of Vermont
Leigh V. Panlilio
Leigh V. Panlilio National Institute on Drug Abuse

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