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Rita Z. Goldstein is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant number of publications contributing to these fields.

Their work encompasses several subfields of study, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Epidemiology

Goldstein's main research topics involve the following areas:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Nelly Alia-Klein
  • Ahmet O. Ceceli
  • Sarah G. King
  • Greg Kronberg
  • Pierre-Olivier Gaudreault

Goldstein has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Key recent publications by Goldstein include:

  • The neurobiology of drug addiction: cross-species insights into the dysfunction and recovery of the prefrontal cortex, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus, 2022, Nature Protocols
  • Overdose mortality rates for opioids and stimulant drugs are substantially higher in men than in women: state-level analysis, 2023, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Structural and functional brain recovery in individuals with substance use disorders during abstinence: A review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies, 2022, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Association of Cortico-Striatal Engagement During Cue Reactivity, Reappraisal, and Savoring of Drug and Non-Drug Stimuli With Craving in Heroin Addiction, 2023, American Journal of Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nora D. Volkow

  • Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nora D. Volkow;Nora D. Volkow

  • Recruiting the ABCD sample: Design considerations and procedures

    H. Garavan;H. Bartsch;K. Conway;A. Decastro

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • The neurocircuitry of impaired insight in drug addiction

    Rita Z. Goldstein;A.D. (Bud) Craig;Antoine Bechara;Hugh Garavan;Hugh Garavan

  • Role of dopamine, the frontal cortex and memory circuits in drug addiction: insight from imaging studies.

    Nora D Volkow;Joanna S Fowler;Gene-Jack Wang;Rita Z Goldstein

  • Neuroimaging Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution in Human Drug Addiction: A Systematic Review.

    Anna Zilverstand;Anna S. Huang;Nelly Alia-Klein;Rita Z. Goldstein

  • Motivation deficit in ADHD is associated with dysfunction of the dopamine reward pathway

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Gene-Jack Wang;Jeffrey H. Newcorn;Scott H. Kollins

  • Severity of neuropsychological impairment in cocaine and alcohol addiction: association with metabolism in the prefrontal cortex.

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Andreana C. Leskovjan;Anne L. Hoff;Robert Hitzemann

  • Inverse Association Between BMI and Prefrontal Metabolic Activity in Healthy Adults

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • High Levels of Dopamine D2 Receptors in Unaffected Members of Alcoholic Families: Possible Protective Factors

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Henri Begleiter;Bernice Porjesz

  • Neuroimaging cognitive reappraisal in clinical populations to define neural targets for enhancing emotion regulation. A systematic review

    Anna Zilverstand;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Rita Z. Goldstein

  • Role of the anterior cingulate and medial orbitofrontal cortex in processing drug cues in cocaine addiction.

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Dardo Tomasi;Suparna Rajaram;Lisa A. Cottone

  • Brain Monoamine Oxidase A Activity Predicts Trait Aggression

    Nelly Alia-Klein;Rita Z. Goldstein;Aarti Kriplani;Jean Logan

  • Adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study: Overview of substance use assessment methods

    Krista M. Lisdahl;Kenneth J. Sher;Kevin P. Conway;Raul Gonzalez

  • Is decreased prefrontal cortical sensitivity to monetary reward associated with impaired motivation and self-control in cocaine addiction?

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nelly Alia-Klein;Dardo Tomasi;Lei Zhang

  • Addiction: Pulling at the Neural Threads of Social Behaviors

    Nora D. Volkow;Ruben D. Baler;Rita Z. Goldstein

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

    Scott Mackey;Nicholas Allgaier;Bader Chaarani;Philip Spechler

  • A transdiagnostic dimensional approach towards a neuropsychological assessment for addiction: an international Delphi consensus study

    Murat Yücel;Erin Oldenhof;Serge H. Ahmed;David Belin

  • The Neuropsychology of Cocaine Addiction: Recent Cocaine Use Masks Impairment

    Patricia A Woicik;Scott J Moeller;Nelly Alia-Klein;Thomas Maloney

  • Addiction changes orbitofrontal gyrus function: involvement in response inhibition.

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

Frequent Co-Authors

Nelly Alia-Klein
Nelly Alia-Klein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Dardo Tomasi
Dardo Tomasi National Institutes of Health
Frank Telang
Frank Telang National Institutes of Health
Gene-Jack Wang
Gene-Jack Wang National Institutes of Health
Joanna S. Fowler
Joanna S. Fowler Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thomas Maloney
Thomas Maloney Cornell University
Jean Logan
Jean Logan New York University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles

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