Publications

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In Press

Cofresí, R. U., Upton, S., Brown, A., Piasecki, T. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Froeliger, B. (in press). Mesocorticolimbic system reactivity to alcohol use-related visual cues as a function of alcohol sensitivity phenotype: a pilot fMRI study. Addiction Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2024.100156
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Acuff, S. F., Cofresi, R., Varner, A., Dennhardt, A. A., Sable, J., Bartholow, B., MacKillop, J., Murphy, J. G. (in press). Correspondence Between the Alcohol-P3 Event-related Potential and Alcohol Demand Phenotypes of Alcohol Reward Among Heavy Drinking Emerging Adults. Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15377
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2024

Kohen, C. B., Cofresí, R. U., Piasecki, T. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2024). Predictive utility of the P3 event‐related potential (ERP) response to alcohol cues for ecologically assessed alcohol craving and use. Addiction Biology, 29(2), e13368. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.13368
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2023

Brown, A. A., Cofresí, R. U., & Froeliger, B. (2023). Associations Between the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives and Regional Brain Volumes in Adult Smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 25(12), 1882–1890. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntad097
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Miller, M. B., Cofresí, R. U., McCarthy, D. M., & Carskadon, M. A. (2023). Sleep and circadian influences on blood alcohol concentration. Sleep, 46(12), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad250
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Kohen, C. B., Cofresí, R. U., Bartholow, B. D., & Piasecki, T. M. (2023). Alcohol craving in the natural environment: Moderating roles of cue exposure, drinking, and alcohol sensitivity. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 31(1), 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000540
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2022

Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022). Acute Sensitization of the P3 Event-Related Potential Response (ERP) to Beverage Images and the Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Addiction Neuroscience, 4, 100041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2022.100041
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Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., Bartholow, B.D. & Schachtman, T.S. (2022). Enhanced conditioned “liking” of novel visual cues paired with alcohol or non-alcohol beverage container images among individuals at higher risk for alcohol use disorder. Psychopharmacology, 239, 3567–3578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06231-4
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Cofresí, R.U., Kohen, C., Motschman, C., Wiers, R.W., Piasecki, T.M., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022) Behavioral response bias and event-related brain potentials implicate elevated incentive salience attribution to alcohol cues in emerging adults with lower sensitivity to alcohol. Addiction 117, 892–904. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15728
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Cofresí, R.U., Piasecki, T.M., Hajcak, G., & Bartholow, B.D. (2022). Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the P3 event-related potential (ERP) elicited by alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage pictures. Psychophysiology, 59, e13967. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13967
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2021

Cofresí, R.U., Watts, A.L., Martins, J.S., Wood, P.K., Sher, K.J., Cowan, N., Miyake, A., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021) Acute effect of alcohol on working memory updating. Addiction, 116, 3029-3043. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15506
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Fleming, K.A., Cofresí, R.U., & Bartholow, B.D. (2021). Transfer of incentive salience from a first-order alcohol cue to a novel second-order alcohol cue among individuals at risk for alcohol use disorder: Electrophysiological evidence. Addiction, 116, 1734-1746. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15380
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2020

Cofresí, R.U., & Bartholow, B.D. (2020). Acute effects of alcohol on error-elicited negative affect during a cognitive control task. Psychopharmacology, 237,3383–3397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05619-4
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Cofresi, R.U., Bartholow, B.D., & Fromme, K. (2020). Female drinkers are more sensitive than male drinkers to alcohol-induced heart rate increase. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 28 (5), 540-552. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pha0000338
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Vena, A. A., Zandy, S. L., Cofresí, R. U., & Gonzales, R. A. (2020). Behavioral, neurobiological, and neurochemical mechanisms of ethanol self-administration: A translational review. Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 212, 107573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pharmthera.2020.107573
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2019

Cofresi, R.U., Bartholow, B.D., & Piasecki, T.M. (2019). Evidence for incentive salience sensitization as a pathway to alcohol use disorder. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 107, 897-926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.10.009
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Cofresí, R. U., Gonzales, R. A., Monfils, M.-H., Chaudhri, N., & Lee, H. J. Cue-alcohol associative learning in female rats. (2019). Alcohol, 81, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2019.03.003
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Cofresí, R. U., Grote, D.J., Le, E.V.T, Gonzales, R. A., Monfils, M.-H., Chaudhri, N., & Lee, H. J. Alcohol-associated antecedent stimuli elicit alcohol seeking in non-dependent rats and may activate the insula. (2019). Alcohol, 76, 91–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.08.004.
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2018

Monfils, M.-H., Lee, H. J., Keller, N. E., Roquet, R. A., Quevedo, S., Agee, L., Cofresí, R. U., & Shumake, J. Predicting extinction phenotype to optimize fear reduction. (2018). Psychopharmacology, 236 (1), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-5005-6
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Cofresí, R. U., Lee, H. J., Monfils, M.-H., Chaudhri, N., & Gonzales, R. A. Characterizing conditioned reactivity to sequential alcohol-predictive cues in well-trained rats. (2018). Alcohol, 69, 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2017.11.034
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2017

Cofresí, R. U., Lewis, S. M., Chaudhri, N., Lee, H. J., Monfils, M.-H., & Gonzales, R. A. (2017). Postretrieval Extinction Attenuates Alcohol Cue Reactivity in Rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,41(3), 608–617. http://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13323
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2016

Shnitko, T. A., Taylor, S. C., Stringfield, S. J., Zandy, S. L., Cofresí, R. U., Doherty, J. M., Lynch, W., Boettiger, C., Gonzales, R.A., Robinson, D. L. (2016). Acute phenylalanine/tyrosine depletion of phasic dopamine in the rat brain. Psychopharmacology, 233(11), 2045–2054. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4259-0
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2014

Mangieri, R. A., Cofresí, R. U., & Gonzales, R. A. (2014). Ethanol exposure interacts with training conditions to influence behavioral adaptation to a negative instrumental contingency. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(June), 1–9. http://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00220
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2012

Mangieri, R. A., Cofresí, R. U., & Gonzales, R. A. (2012). Ethanol Seeking by Long Evans Rats Is Not Always a Goal-Directed Behavior. PLoS ONE, 7(8), e42886. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042886
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