Stephen Wilson

Professor of Psychology

Stephen Wilson

Research Summary

Addictive behavior, with a specific focus on cigarette smoking.

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Testing the efficacy of real-time fMRI neurofeedback in training daily smokers to upregulate neural response to nondrug rewards.

Y. Chung, R. White, C Geier, S. Johnston, J Smyth, M. Delgado, Stephen Wilson, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 440-456

The Cerebellar Response to Visual Portion Size Cues Is Associated with the Portion Size Effect in Children

Bari A. Fuchs, Alaina L. Pearce, Barbara J. Rolls, Stephen J. Wilson, Emma Jane Rose, Charles Geier, Hugh Garavan, Kathleen L. Keller, 2024, Nutrients

Does ‘portion size’ matter? Brain responses to food and non-food cues presented in varying amounts

Bari Fuchs, Alaina L. Pearce, Barbara J. Rolls, Stephen Wilson, E Rose, C Geier, Kathleen Keller, 2024, Appetite on p. 107289

Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity: A Systematic Review

Arshiya Sangchooli, Mehran Zare-Bidoky, Ali Fathi Jouzdani, Joseph Schacht, James M. Bjork, Eric D. Claus, James J. Prisciandaro, Stephen J. Wilson, Torsten Wüstenberg, Stéphane Potvin, Pooria Ahmadi, Patrick Bach, Alex Baldacchino, Anne Beck, Kathleen T. Brady, Judson A. Brewer, Anna Rose Childress, Kelly E. Courtney, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Francesca M. Filbey, Hugh Garavan, Dara G. Ghahremani, Rita Z. Goldstein, Anneke E. Goudriaan, Erica N. Grodin, Colleen A. Hanlon, Amelie Haugg, Markus Heilig, Andreas Heinz, Adrienn Holczer, Ruth J. Van Holst, Jane E. Joseph, Anthony C. Juliano, Marc J. Kaufman, Falk Kiefer, Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi, Rayus T. Kuplicki, Marco Leyton, Edythe D. London, Scott Mackey, F. Joseph McClernon, William H. Mellick, Kirsten Morley, Hamid R. Noori, Mohammad Ali Oghabian, Jason A. Oliver, Max Owens, Martin P. Paulus, Irene Perini, Parnian Rafei, Lara A. Ray, Rajita Sinha, Michael N. Smolka, Ghazaleh Soleimani, Rainer Spanagel, Vaughn R. Steele, Susan F. Tapert, Sabine Vollstädt-Klein, Reagan R. Wetherill, Katie Witkiewitz, Kai Yuan, Xiaochu Zhang, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, Marc N. Potenza, Amy C. Janes, Hedy Kober, Anna Zilverstand, Hamed Ekhtiari, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry

Prenatal androgen influences on the brain: A review, critique, and illustration of research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Adriene M. Beltz, Michael I. Demidenko, Stephen J. Wilson, Sheri A. Berenbaum, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience Research on p. 563-574

Testing the efficacy of real-time fMRI neurofeedback for training people who smoke daily to upregulate neural responses to nondrug rewards

Young In Chung, Roisin White, Charles F. Geier, Stephen J. Johnston, Joshua M. Smyth, Mauricio R. Delgado, Sherry A. McKee, Stephen J. Wilson, 2023, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 440-456

Children at high familial risk for obesity show executive functioning deficits prior to development of excess weight status

Alaina Pearce, Alaina Pierce, Kyle Hallisky, Barbara J. Rolls, Stephen Wilson, Emma Rose, Charles F. Geier, Hough Garavan, Kathleen Keller, Kathleen L. Keller, 2023, Obesity on p. 2998-3007

Children with lower ratings of executive functions have a greater response to the portion size effect

Kathleen L. Keller, Alaina Pearce, Bari Fuchs, Kyle Hallisky, Kyle Halisky, Barbara Rolls, Stephen Wilson, Charles Geier, E Rose, 2023, Appetite on p. 106569

Psychometric Evaluation of a Visual Interpersonal Analog Scale

William Woods, Elizabeth Edershile, B Sharpe, Whitney Ringwald, Whitney Ringwald, Brinkley Sharpe, Philip Himmelstein, Michelle G. Newman, Stephen Wilson, William Ellison, Kenneth N. Levy, Aaron L. Pincus, J. Creswell, Aidan Wright, 2023, Psychological Assessment on p. 311–324

Momentary associations between affect and craving as a function of perceived smoking opportunity in young adults smoking 1–5 cigarettes per day: An ecological momentary assessment study

Siyuan Huang, M. Furer, Joshua Smyth, Stephen Wilson, 2023, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on p. 109717

Most-Cited Papers

Development of a questionnaire for assessing dependence on electronic cigarettes among a large sample of ex-smoking e-cigarette users

Jonathan Foulds, Susan Veldheer, Jessica Yingst, Shari Hrabovsky, Stephen J. Wilson, Travis T. Nichols, Thomas Eissenberg, 2015, Nicotine and Tobacco Research on p. 186-192

Adolescent brain maturation and smoking: What we know and where we're headed

David M. Lydon, Stephen J. Wilson, Amanda Child, Charles F. Geier, 2014, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 323-342

Factors associated with electronic cigarette users' device preferences and transition from first generation to advanced generation devices

Jessica M. Yingst, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Travis T. Nichols, Stephen J. Wilson, Jonathan Foulds, 2015, Nicotine and Tobacco Research on p. 1242-1246

Neuroimaging craving: Urge intensity matters

Stephen J. Wilson, Michael A. Sayette, 2015, Addiction on p. 195-203

Nicotine absorption during electronic cigarette use among regular users

Jessica M. Yingst, Jonathan Foulds, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Neil Trushin, Thomas T. Eissenberg, J. Williams, John P. Richie, T. Nichols, Stephen J. Wilson, Andrea L. Hobkirk, 2019, PLoS One on p. e0220300

The role of negative affect and self-concept clarity in predicting self-injurious urges in borderline personality disorder using ecological momentary assessment

J. Wesley Scala, Kenneth N. Levy, Benjamin N. Johnson, Yogev Kivity, William D. Ellison, Aaron L. Pincus, Stephen J. Wilson, Michelle G. Newman, 2018, Journal of Personality Disorders on p. 36-57

Views of experienced electronic cigarette users

Raman Baweja, Katherine M. Curci, Jessica Yingst, Susan Veldheer, Shari Hrabovsky, Stephen J. Wilson, Travis T. Nichols, Thomas Eissenberg, Jonathan Foulds, 2016, Addiction Research and Theory on p. 80-88

Weak ventral striatal responses to monetary outcomes predict an unwillingness to resist cigarette smoking

Stephen J. Wilson, Mauricio R. Delgado, Sherry A. McKee, Patricia S. Grigson, R. Ross MacLean, Travis T. Nichols, Shannon L. Henry, 2014, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 1196-1207

Food portion size and energy density evoke different patterns of brain activation in children

Laural K. English, S. Nicole Fearnbach, Stephen J. Wilson, Jennifer O. Fisher, Jennifer S. Savage, Barbara J. Rolls, Kathleen L. Keller, 2017, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on p. 295-305

The first day is always the hardest: Functional connectivity during cue exposure and the ability to resist smoking in the initial hours of a quit attempt

Shannon L. Zelle, Kathleen M. Gates, Julie A. Fiez, Michael A. Sayette, Stephen J. Wilson, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 24-32