Eric Claus

Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health

130 Biobehavioral Health
University Park, PA
edc5208@psu.edu
814-865-2007

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Research Summary

Identifying neural and cognitive mechanisms that support behavior change in substance use disorders.

Huck Affiliations

Neuroscience

Neuroscience Institute

Publication Tags

Alcohol Alcohols Brain Alcoholism Drinking Disorder Cues Decision Making Magnetic Resonance Imaging Substance Related Disorders Cannabis Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Prefrontal Cortex Parietal Lobe Psychological Inhibition Nicotine Risk Taking Smoking Gyrus Cinguli Therapeutics Learning Neuroimaging Monitoring Tobacco Use Disorder Adolescent

Most Recent Publications

A review of functional brain differences predicting relapse in substance use disorder: Actionable targets for new methods of noninvasive brain stimulation.

B Gibson, Eric Claus, J Sanguinetti, K Witkiewitz, V Clark, 2022, Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews on p. 104821

Association between empathy and drinking among a community sample of heavy drinkers: Sex differences and neural correlates

Charles S.H. Robinson, Eric D. Claus, Vince Calhoun, Megan Swartz, Kathryn Fokas, Katie Witkiewitz, 2022, Addictive Behaviors

A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus.

H Ekhtiari, M Zare-Bidoky, A Sangchooli, A Janes, M Kaufman, J Oliver, J Prisciandaro, T Wüstenberg, R Anton, P Bach, A Baldacchino, A Beck, J Bjork, J Brewer, A Childress, Eric Claus, K Courtney, M Ebrahimi, F Filbey, D Ghahremani, P Azbari, R Goldstein, A Goudriaan, E Grodin, J Hamilton, C Hanlon, P Hassani-Abharian, A Heinz, J Joseph, F Kiefer, A Zonoozi, H Kober, R Kuplicki, Q Li, E London, J McClernon, H Noori, M Owens, M Paulus, I Perini, M Potenza, S Potvin, L Ray, J Schacht, D Seo, R Sinha, M Smolka, R Spanagel, V Steele, E Stein, S Steins-Loeber, S Tapert, A Verdejo-Garcia, S Vollstädt-Klein, R Wetherill, Stephen J. Wilson, K Witkiewitz, K Yuan, X Zhang, A Zilverstand, 2022, Nature Protocols on p. 567-595

Sex moderates effects of alcohol and cannabis co-use on alcohol and stress reactivity

Eric Claus, Sara K. Blaine, Katie Witkiewitz, Emily B. Ansell, 2022, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

A Bayesian mixed effects support vector machine for learning and predicting daily substance use disorder patterns

James W. Baurley, Eric D. Claus, Katie Witkiewitz, Christopher S. McMahan, 2022, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

The Effects of Alcohol and Cannabis Co-use on Neurocognitive Function, Brain Structure, and Brain Function

Margaret Bedillion, Sara Blaine, E Claus, Emily Ansell, 2021, Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports on p. 134-149

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Provides No Additional Benefit to Improvements in Self-Reported Craving Following Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention

Benjamin Gibson, Victoria Votaw, Elena Stein, Vincent Clark, Eric Claus, Katie Witkiewitz, 2021, Mindfulness on p. 92-103

Neural correlates of alcohol use disorder severity among nontreatment-seeking heavy drinkers: An examination of the incentive salience and negative emotionality domains of the alcohol and addiction research domain criteria.

K Al-Khalil, K Vakamudi, K Witkiewitz, Eric Claus, 2021, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research on p. 1200-1214

Randomized Controlled Trial of an Alcohol-related Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention with Adolescents: The Role of Neurocognitive Activation During Risky Decision-Making.

A Bryan, R Magnan, Eric Claus, K Hutchison, Ewing SWF, S Schmiege, 2021, AIDS and Behavior

Age dependent neural correlates of inhibition and control mechanisms in moderate to heavy drinkers

Megan Swartz, Finnigan Burton, Kishore Vakamudi, Kareem Al-Khalil, Katie Witkiewitz, Eric D. Claus, 2021, NeuroImage: Clinical

Most-Cited Papers

Cognitive control reflects context monitoring, not motoric stopping, in response inhibition.

C Chatham, Eric Claus, A Kim, T Curran, M Banich, Y Munakata, 2012, PLoS One on p. e31546

Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead.

H Ekhtiari, H Tavakoli, G Addolorato, C Baeken, A Bonci, S Campanella, L Castelo-Branco, G Challet-Bouju, V Clark, Eric Claus, P Dannon, A Del Felice, T den Uyl, M Diana, M di Giannantonio, J Fedota, P Fitzgerald, L Gallimberti, M Grall-Bronnec, S Herremans, M Herrmann, A Jamil, E Khedr, C Kouimtsidis, K Kozak, E Krupitsky, C Lamm, W Lechner, G Madeo, N Malmir, G Martinotti, W McDonald, C Montemitro, E Nakamura-Palacios, M Nasehi, X Noël, M Nosratabadi, M Paulus, M Pettorruso, B Pradhan, S Praharaj, H Rafferty, G Sahlem, B Salmeron, A Sauvaget, R Schluter, C Sergiou, A Shahbabaie, C Sheffer, P Spagnolo, V Steele, T Yuan, van Dongen JDM, V Van Waes, G Venkatasubramanian, A Verdejo-García, I Verveer, J Welsh, M Wesley, K Witkiewitz, F Yavari, M Zarrindast, L Zawertailo, X Zhang, Y Cha, T George, F Frohlich, A Goudriaan, S Fecteau, S Daughters, E Stein, F Fregni, M Nitsche, A Zangen, M Bikson, C Hanlon, 2019, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 118-140

Replicability of time-varying connectivity patterns in large resting state fMRI samples

Anees Abrol, Eswar Damaraju, Robyn L. Miller, Julia M. Stephen, Eric D. Claus, Andrew R. Mayer, Vince D. Calhoun, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 160-176

Association between nicotine dependence severity, BOLD response to smoking cues, and functional connectivity.

Eric Claus, S Blaine, F Filbey, A Mayer, K Hutchison, 2013, Neuropsychopharmacology on p. 2363-72

Reduced white matter integrity in the cingulum and anterior corona radiata in posttraumatic stress disorder in male combat veterans: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

P Sanjuan, R Thoma, Eric Claus, N Mays, A Caprihan, 2013, Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging on p. 260-8

Neural mechanisms of risk taking and relationships with hazardous drinking.

Eric Claus, K Hutchison, 2012, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research on p. 932-40

Negative and interactive effects of sex, aging, and alcohol abuse on gray matter morphometry

Rachel E. Thayer, Sarah L. Hagerty, Amithrupa Sabbineni, Eric D. Claus, Kent E. Hutchison, Barbara J. Weiland, 2016, Human Brain Mapping on p. 2276-2292