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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Lara A. Ray is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a specific focus on substance abuse treatment and outcomes, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and alcohol consumption and health effects.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of epidemiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, pathology and forensic medicine, and cognitive neuroscience as subfields. Their work is published primarily in multiple frequent venues including:

  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Lara A. Ray's notable recent publications include:

  • Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Alcohol or Substance Use Disorders, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Hazardous Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorders, 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Novel Agents for the Pharmacological Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder, 2022, Drugs
  • A Methodological Checklist for fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity Studies: Development and Expert Consensus, 2022, Nature Protocols
  • Ibudilast, a Neuroimmune Modulator, Reduces Heavy Drinking and Alcohol Cue-elicited Neural Activation: A Randomized Trial, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Their frequent coauthors reflect a collaborative research focus and include:

  • Erica N. Grodin
  • Steven J. Nieto
  • Lindsay R. Meredith
  • Elizabeth M. Burnette
  • Wave-Ananda Baskerville

The major themes in Lara A. Ray's work cover:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Among professional recognitions, Lara A. Ray has been honored as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2016 and was a Hellman Fellow in 2011.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment With Adult Alcohol and Illicit Drug Users: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Molly Magill;Lara A. Ray

  • Methamphetamine: An update on epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical phenomenology, and treatment literature

    Kelly E. Courtney;Lara A. Ray

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

    Lara A. Ray;Kent E. Hutchison

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Lara A. Ray;Kent E. Hutchison

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

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

  • A meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral therapy for alcohol or other drug use disorders: Treatment efficacy by contrast condition.

    Molly Magill;Lara Ray;Brian Kiluk;Ariel Hoadley

  • Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Alcohol or Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Lara A. Ray;Lindsay R. Meredith;Brian D. Kiluk;Justin Walthers

  • 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

  • Fronto-striatal functional connectivity during response inhibition in alcohol dependence

    Kelly E. Courtney;Dara G. Ghahremani;Lara A. Ray

  • Latent structure of facets of alcohol reinforcement from a behavioral economic demand curve

    James MacKillop;James G. Murphy;Jennifer W. Tidey;Christopher W. Kahler

  • Behavioral economic analysis of cue-elicited craving for alcohol

    James MacKillop;Sean O'Hagen;Stephen A. Lisman;James G. Murphy

  • The Effect of Olanzapine on Craving and Alcohol Consumption

    Kent E Hutchison;Lara Ray;Erica Sandman;Marie-Christine Rutter

  • Subjective responses to alcohol consumption as endophenotypes: advancing behavioral genetics in etiological and treatment models of alcoholism.

    Lara A. Ray;James Mackillop;Peter M. Monti

  • Binge eating and binge drinking: An integrative review

    Caitlin Ferriter;Lara A. Ray

  • Anhedonia associated with stimulant use and dependence in a population-based sample of American adults.

    Adam M. Leventhal;Molly Brightman;Katherine J. Ameringer;Jodie Greenberg

  • Naltrexone for the Treatment of Alcoholism: Clinical Findings, Mechanisms of Action, and Pharmacogenetics

    Lara A. Ray;Pauline F. Chin;Karen Miotto

  • Polymorphisms of the mu-opioid receptor and dopamine D4 receptor genes and subjective responses to alcohol in the natural environment.

    Lara A. Ray;Robert Miranda;Jennifer W. Tidey;John E. McGeary

Frequent Co-Authors

Kent E. Hutchison
Kent E. Hutchison University of Colorado Boulder
James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University
Adam M. Leventhal
Adam M. Leventhal University of Southern California
Peter M. Monti
Peter M. Monti Brown University
Robert Miranda
Robert Miranda Brown University
John E. McGeary
John E. McGeary Brown University
Jennifer W. Tidey
Jennifer W. Tidey Brown University
Molly Magill
Molly Magill Brown University
Mark Zimmerman
Mark Zimmerman Brown University
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles

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