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Overview

Theodora Duka is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses several interconnected fields, primarily Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with notable contributions in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional focus areas include Psychiatry and Mental Health and Social Psychology.

Their work covers a variety of topics largely related to behavioral and neural processes, including Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, and aspects of Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. Other research interests include Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, as well as Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Theodora Duka has published research in several scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, NeuroImage Clinical, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). There are also publications in Clinical Psychology Review and the Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Theodora Duka include the following:

  • "Emotional processes in binge drinking: A systematic review and perspective," 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Interoceptive cardiac signals selectively enhance fear memories," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Does acute stress influence the Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer effect? Implications for substance use disorders," 2020, Psychopharmacology
  • "Deter the emotions: Alexithymia, impulsivity and their relationship to binge drinking," 2020, Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • "Can intranasal oxytocin reduce craving in automated addictive behaviours? A systematic review," 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology

Theodora Duka regularly collaborates with a core group of co-authors that include Hugo Critchley, Ben Houghton, Christos Kouimtsidis, Caitlin Notley, and Aleksandra M. Herman.

Best Publications

  • Attentional bias associated with alcohol cues: differences between heavy and occasional social drinkers

    Julia Townshend;Theodora Duka

  • Binge Drinking, Cognitive Performance and Mood in a Population of Young Social Drinkers

    Julia M. Townshend;Theodora Duka

  • Acute alcohol effects on cognitive function in social drinkers: Their relationship to drinking habits.

    Ruth Weissenborn;Theodora Duka

  • Acute and chronic ethanol treatment changes endorphin levels in brain and pituitary

    Rüdiger Schulz;Michael Wüster;Theodora Duka;Albert Herz

  • PATTERNS OF ALCOHOL DRINKING IN A POPULATION OF YOUNG SOCIAL DRINKERS: A COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRE AND DIARY MEASURES

    Julia Townshend;Theodora Duka

  • The effects of 3-week estrogen hormone replacement on cognition in elderly healthy females.

    T Duka;R Tasker;J F McGowan

  • Cognitive and emotional consequences of binge drinking: role of amygdala and prefrontal cortex

    David N Stephens;Theodora Duka

  • Impairment of Cognitive Abilities and Decision Making after Chronic Use of Alcohol: The Impact of Multiple Detoxifications

    Sabine Loeber;Theodora Duka;Helga Welzel;Helmut Nakovics

  • Experimental manipulation of attentional biases in heavy drinkers: do the effects generalise?

    Matt Field;Theodora Duka;Brian Eastwood;Robert Child

  • Mixed emotions: alcoholics' impairments in the recognition of specific emotional facial expressions.

    Julia M Townshend;Theodora Duka

  • 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 acute effect of alcohol on decision making in social drinkers.

    S. George;R. D. Rogers;T. Duka

  • Impairment in cognitive functions after multiple detoxifications in alcoholic inpatients.

    Theodora Duka;Julia M. Townshend;Kirsty Collier;David N. Stephens

  • The priming effect of alcohol pre-load on attentional bias to alcohol-related stimuli

    Theodora Duka;Julia M. Townshend

  • Behavioural measures of frontal lobe function in a population of young social drinkers with binge drinking pattern.

    J.C. Scaife;T. Duka

  • Further evidence of the heterogeneous nature of impulsivity.

    Amy J. Caswell;Amy J. Caswell;Rod Bond;Theodora Duka;Michael J. Morgan;Michael J. Morgan

  • Consequences of multiple withdrawals from alcohol.

    Theodora Duka;John Gentry;Robert Malcolm;Tamzin L. Ripley

  • Attentional bias modification in tobacco smokers

    Matt Field;Theodora Duka;Elizabeth Tyler;Tim Schoenmakers

  • Withdrawal-Associated Increases and Decreases in Functional Neural Connectivity Associated with Altered Emotional Regulation in Alcoholism

    Owen G O'Daly;Leanne Trick;Jess Scaife;Jane Marshall

  • Avoidance of Alcohol-Related Stimuli in Alcohol-Dependent Inpatients

    J. M. Townshend;T. Duka

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee Hogarth
Lee Hogarth University of Exeter
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
Sarah N. Garfinkel
Sarah N. Garfinkel University College London
Matt Field
Matt Field University of Sheffield
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Jennifer Rusted
Jennifer Rusted University of Sussex
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Luke Clark
Luke Clark University of British Columbia

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