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Overview

Martin Zack is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology and related subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Speech and Hearing.

Their main research topics include Gambling Behavior and Treatments, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Martin Zack has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • "Engineered highs: Reward variability and frequency as potential prerequisites of behavioural addiction" (2023, Addictive Behaviors)
  • "Effects of exposure to chronic uncertainty and a sensitizing regimen of amphetamine injections on locomotion, decision-making, and dopamine receptors in rats" (2020, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • "Association of cannabis use with neurocognition in adolescents with bipolar disorder" (2023, Journal of Psychopharmacology)
  • "Priming effects of a slot machine game and amphetamine on probabilistic risk-taking in people with gambling disorder and healthy controls" (2023, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology)
  • "Dopamine mediates a directionally opposite correlation between empathy and the reinforcing effects of amphetamine and gambling in people with gambling disorder vs. healthy controls" (2024, Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior)

Frequent co-authors of Martin Zack include:

  • Daniela S. S. Lobo
  • Candice Biback
  • Tim Fang
  • Kelly Smart
  • Daniel Tatone

Their work has been published in journals such as:

  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Best Publications

  • Development and psychometric evaluation of a three-dimensional Gambling Motives Questionnaire.

    Sherry H. Stewart;Martin Zack;Martin Zack

  • An Information-Processing Analysis of Mindfulness: Implications for Relapse Prevention in the Treatment of Substance Abuse

    F. Curtis Breslin;Martin Zack;Shelley McMain

  • A D2 antagonist enhances the rewarding and priming effects of a gambling episode in pathological gamblers.

    Martin Zack;Martin Zack;Constantine X Poulos

  • Subtyping pathological gamblers on the basis of affective motivations for gambling: relations to gambling problems, drinking problems, and affective motivations for drinking.

    Sherry H. Stewart;Martin Zack;Pamela Collins;Raymond M. Klein

  • Amphetamine primes motivation to gamble and gambling-related semantic networks in problem gamblers.

    Martin Zack;Constantine X Poulos;Constantine X Poulos

  • In vivo evidence for greater amphetamine-induced dopamine release in pathological gambling: a positron emission tomography study with [(11)C]-(+)-PHNO.

    I Boileau;D Payer;B Chugani;D S S Lobo

  • Higher Binding of the Dopamine D3 Receptor-Preferring Ligand [11C]-(+)-Propyl-Hexahydro-Naphtho-Oxazin in Methamphetamine Polydrug Users: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Isabelle Boileau;Doris Payer;Sylvain Houle;Arian Behzadi

  • The D2/3 dopamine receptor in pathological gambling: a positron emission tomography study with [11C]-(+)-propyl-hexahydro-naphtho-oxazin and [11C]raclopride.

    Isabelle Boileau;Doris Payer;Bindiya Chugani;Daniela Lobo

  • Neuroimaging of reward mechanisms in Gambling disorder: an integrative review

    Luke Clark;Isabelle Boileau;Martin Zack

  • Effects of abstinence and smoking on information processing in adolescent smokers

    Martin Zack;Laura Belsito;Risa Scher;Thomas Eissenberg

  • Effects of the atypical stimulant modafinil on a brief gambling episode in pathological gamblers with high vs. low impulsivity.

    M Zack;C X Poulos

  • Parallel roles for dopamine in pathological gambling and psychostimulant addiction

    Martin Zack;Constantine X Poulos

  • Implicit and explicit alcohol-related cognitions.

    Reinout W. Wiers;Alan W. Stacy;Susan L. Ames;Jane A. Noll

  • Effects of High Frequency Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation on Gambling Reinforcement, Delay Discounting, and Stroop Interference in Men with Pathological Gambling.

    Martin Zack;Sang Soo Cho;Jennifer Parlee;Mark Jacobs

  • Chronic exposure to a gambling-like schedule of reward predictive stimuli can promote sensitization to amphetamine in rats.

    Martin Zack;Robert E. Featherstone;Sarah Mathewson;Paul J. Fletcher

  • Implicit activation of alcohol concepts by negative affective cues distinguishes between problem drinkers with high and low psychiatric distress.

    Martin Zack;Tony Toneatto;Colin M. MacLeod

  • The SCL-90 factor structure in comorbid substance abusers

    Martin Zack;Tony Toneatto;David L. Streiner

  • [¹¹C]-(+)-PHNO PET imaging of dopamine D(2/3) receptors in Parkinson's disease with impulse control disorders.

    Doris E. Payer;Mark Guttman;Stephen J. Kish;Junchao Tong

  • Brain Reward System Activity in Major Depression and Comorbid Nicotine Dependence

    Laura Cardenas;Lescia K. Tremblay;Claudio A. Naranjo;Nathan Herrmann

  • Uncertainty exposure causes behavioural sensitization and increases risky decision-making in male rats: toward modelling gambling disorder

    Fiona D. Zeeb;Zhaoxia Li;Daniel C. Fisher;Martin H. Zack

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin MacLeod
Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia
Paul J. Fletcher
Paul J. Fletcher Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Sherry H. Stewart
Sherry H. Stewart Dalhousie University
Tony Toneatto
Tony Toneatto University of Toronto
Tony P. George
Tony P. George Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Raymond M. Klein
Raymond M. Klein Dalhousie University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Luke Clark
Luke Clark University of British Columbia
Susan L. Ames
Susan L. Ames Claremont Graduate University

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