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9294
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5744
National Ranking
2536

Overview

Patrick K. Randall is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within medicine and environmental science, with a focus on epidemiology, pharmacology, public health, environmental and occupational health, global and planetary change, and genetics.

Their work often centers on topics related to substance abuse treatment and outcomes, cannabis and cannabinoid research, opioid use disorder treatment, amphibian and reptile biology, lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, and species distribution and climate change.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Patrick K. Randall include:

  • Opioid and Dopamine Genes Interact to Predict Naltrexone Response in a Randomized Alcohol Use Disorder Clinical Trial, 2020, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Adolescent Alcohol Exposure Reduces Behavioral Flexibility, Promotes Disinhibition and Increases Resistance to Extinction of Ethanol Self-Administration in Adulthood, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Untangling the Wallacean Shortfall: The herpetofauna of central-eastern Afghanistan including two snake species new for the reptiles list of the country, 2025, Zootaxa

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Randall on research projects include:

  • Raymond F. Anton
  • Konstantin Voronin
  • Sarah W. Book
  • Patricia K. Latham
  • Willam Bailey Glen

The venues in which Randall frequently publishes are:

  • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Zootaxa

Patrick K. Randall's research contributions bridge clinical and environmental realms, addressing complex issues such as genetic influences on treatment outcomes for opioid and alcohol use disorders, adolescent alcohol exposure effects, and biodiversity documentation within herpetofauna. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in their diverse fields and subfields of study.

Best Publications

  • Prospective relations between social support and depression: differential direction of effects for parent and peer support?

    Eric Stice;Jennifer Ragan;Patrick Randall

  • A longitudinal study of estrous cyclicity in aging C57BL/6J mice: I. Cycle frequency, length and vaginal cytology.

    James F. Nelson;Lêda S. Felicio;Patrick K. Randall;Clifford Sims

  • Drinking to cope, emotional distress and alcohol use and abuse: A ten-year model

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Ruth C. Cronkite

  • Patterns of gene expression in the frontal cortex discriminate alcoholic from nonalcoholic individuals

    Jianwen Liu;Joanne Marie Lewohl;R Adron Harris;Vishwanath R Iyer

  • Effect of Naltrexone and Ondansetron on Alcohol Cue-Induced Activation of the Ventral Striatum in Alcohol-Dependent People

    Hugh Myrick;Raymond F. Anton;Xingbao Li;Scott Henderson

  • A double-blind trial of gabapentin versus lorazepam in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.

    Hugh Myrick;Robert Malcolm;Patrick K. Randall;Elizabeth Boyle

  • Adolescent Alcohol Exposure Reduces Behavioral Flexibility, Promotes Disinhibition, and Increases Resistance to Extinction of Ethanol Self-Administration in Adulthood

    Justin T Gass;William Bailey Glen;Justin T McGonigal;Heather Trantham-Davidson

  • Drinking to cope and alcohol use and abuse in unipolar depression: a 10-year model.

    Charles J. Holahan;Rudolf H. Moos;Carole K. Holahan;Ruth C. Cronkite

  • A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of cocaine dependence.

    Steven D. LaRowe;Peter W. Kalivas;Joyce S. Nicholas;Patrick K. Randall

  • Hupothalamic hyperphagia: dissociation from hyperphagia following destruction of noradrenergic neurons.

    JE Ahlskog;PK Randall;BG Hoebel

  • Gene expression profiling of individual cases reveals consistent transcriptional changes in alcoholic human brain.

    Jianwen Liu;Joanne Marie Lewohl;Peter R. Dodd;Patrick K. Randall

  • Gabapentin Combined With Naltrexone for the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence

    Raymond F. Anton;Hugh Myrick;Tara M. Wright;Patricia K. Latham

  • Comparison of local and systemic ethanol effects on extracellular dopamine concentration in rat nucleus accumbens by microdialysis.

    Hyeon Joo Yim;Timothy J Schallert;Patrick K. Randall;Rueben A Gonzales

  • Genotypic influences on striatal dopaminergic regulation in mice

    J.A. Severson;P.K. Randall;C.E. Finch

  • Gender differences in alcohol treatment: an analysis of outcome from the COMBINE study.

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Helen M. Pettinati;Stephanie O’Malley;Patrick K. Randall

  • Ontogeny of behavioral arousal in rats: effect of maternal and sibling presence.

    Patrick K. Randall;Byron A. Campbell

  • Retrograde amnesia produced by hypothermia in rats.

    David C. Riccio;Louis A. Hodges;Patrick K. Randall

  • Predictors of Naltrexone Response in a Randomized Trial: Reward-Related Brain Activation, OPRM1 Genotype, and Smoking Status.

    Joseph P Schacht;Patrick K Randall;Patricia K Latham;Konstantin E Voronin

  • Efficacy of a combination of flumazenil and gabapentin in the treatment of alcohol dependence: relationship to alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

    Raymond F. Anton;Hugh Myrick;Alicia M. Baros;Patricia K. Latham

  • Aging and the regulation of striatal dopaminergic mechanisms in mice.

    P K Randall;J A Severson;C E Finch

  • Cold pressor task reactivity: predictors of alcohol use among alcohol-dependent individuals with and without comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Kathleen T. Brady;Sudie E. Back;Angela E. Waldrop;Aimee L. McRae

  • The effect of aripiprazole on cue-induced brain activation and drinking parameters in alcoholics.

    Hugh Myrick;Xingbao Li;Patrick K. Randall;Scott Henderson

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Woodward
John J. Woodward Medical University of South Carolina
Ronald J. Mandel
Ronald J. Mandel University of Florida
Xingbao Li
Xingbao Li Medical University of South Carolina
Rueben A. Gonzales
Rueben A. Gonzales The University of Texas at Austin
Peter R. Dodd
Peter R. Dodd University of Queensland
Ruth C. Cronkite
Ruth C. Cronkite Stanford University
Rudolf H. Moos
Rudolf H. Moos Stanford University
Charles J. Holahan
Charles J. Holahan The University of Texas at Austin
Kathleen T. Brady
Kathleen T. Brady Medical University of South Carolina
Robert W. Williams
Robert W. Williams University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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