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Murray CH, Tare I, Perry CM, Malina M, Lee R, de Wit H (2021). Low doses of LSD reduce broadband oscillatory power and modulate event-related potentials in healthy adults. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi: 10.1007/s00213-021-05991-9. PMID: 34613430.

Regan A, Margolis S, de Wit H, Lyubomirsky S (2021). Does ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) induce subjective feelings of social connection in humans? A multilevel meta-analysis. PLoS One. 16(10):e0258849. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258849. PMID: 34695117; PMCID: PMC8544845.

Malina M, Keedy S, Weafer J, Van Hedger K, de Wit H (2021). Effects of methamphetamine on within- and between-network connectivity in healthy adults. Cereb Cortex Commun. 2(4):tgab063. doi: 10.1093/texcom/tgab063. PMID: 34859242; PMCID: PMC8633740.

Han J, Keedy S, Murray CH, Foxley S, de Wit H (2021) Acute effects of alcohol on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy young men. Addict Behav. 115, 106786. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106786. PMID: 33421747.

Webber HE, Lopez-Gamundi P, Stamatovich SN, de Wit H, Wardle MC (2021) Using pharmacological manipulations to study the role of dopamine in human reward functioning: A review of studies in healthy adults. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 120, 123-158. PMCID: PMC7855845

de Wit, H, AK Bershad, W Hutchison, M Bremmer (2021) Can 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) change socio-political values? Insights from a research participant.  Biological Psychiatry.

Murray, CH, J Li, J Weafer, H de Wit  (2021) Subjective responses predict d-amphetamine choice in healthy volunteers. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior (in press)

Van Hedger, K, LM Mayo, AK Bershad, H de Wit (2021) Effects of acute drug administration on emotion: a review of pharmacological fMRI studies. Curr Addict Rep. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-021-00362-y 

Weafer, J, KL Phan, H de Wit (2021) Neural correlates of inhibitory control are associated with stimulant-like effects of alcohol.  Neuropsychopharmacology (in press)

de Wit, H, AK Bershad, C Grob (2021) Challenges in translational research: MDMA in the laboratory vs the clinic.  J Psychopharmacology (in press)

 Di Ciano, P, H de Wit, E Mansouri, S Houle, I Boileau, B Le Foll (2021) Conditioned stimuli on [11C]-(+)-PHNO PET binding in tobacco smokers after a one week abstinence.  Scientific Reports (in press)

Nutt, D, H de Wit (2021) Putting the MD back into MDMA.  Nature Medicine (commentary).

Pabon E, Rockwood F, Norman GJ, de Wit H (2022). Acute effects of oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on autonomic cardiac activity and their relation to subjective and anxiogenic effects. Psychophysiology. 59(2):e13955. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13955. PMID: 34665890; PMCID: PMC8724445.

Wardle MC, Pabon E, Webber HE, de Wit H (2022). Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol reduces willingness to exert effort in women. Psychopharmacology 239(5):1487-1497 PMID: 35102424; PMCID: PMC8803458.

de Wit H, Molla HM, Bershad A, Bremmer M, Lee R (2022) Repeated low doses of LSD in healthy adults: A placebo-controlled, dose-response study. Addiction Biology 27:e13143. doi: 10.1111/adb.13143. Epub 2022 Feb 1. PMID: 35106880.

King, A, A Vena, H de Wit, JE Grant, D Cao (2022) Combination treatment with varenicline and nicotine patch for smoking cessation and heavy drinking: A randomized controlled trial.  JAMA Network Open. 2022;5(3):e220951. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0951

Murray CH, Huang Z, Lee R, de Wit H (2022). Adolescents are more sensitive than adults to acute behavioral and cognitive effects of THC. Neuropsychopharmacology 47, 1331-1338. PMID: 35110688 PMCID: PMC9117219 

Pabon, E, H de Wit (2022) Effects of oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in women during the early and late follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. PMID: 35593915 DOI: 10.1089/can.2022.0045

Doss, MK, J Samaha, FS Barrett, RR Griffiths, H de Wit, DA Gallo, & JD Koen Unique effects of sedatives, dissociatives, psychedelics, stimulants, and cannabinoids on episodic memory: A review and reanalysis of acute drug effects on recollection, familiarity and metamemory. bioRxiv 2022.05.20.492842; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.20.492842

Doss MK, de Wit H, Gallo DA. (2023) The acute effects of psychoactive drugs on emotional episodic memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval: A comprehensive review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 150:105188. PMID: 37085021.

Pabon, E., & de Wit, H. (2022). Effects of oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in women during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, 10.1089/can.2022.0045. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1089/can.2022.0045

Murray, C. H., Glazer, J. E., Lee, R., Nusslock, R., & de Wit, H. (2022). Δ9-THC reduces reward-related brain activity in healthy adults. Psychopharmacology, 239(9), 2829–2840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06164-y

Pabon, E., Greenlund, I. M., Carter, J. R., & de Wit, H. (2022). Effects of alcohol on sleep and nocturnal heart rate: Relationships to intoxication and morning-after effects. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 46, 1875–1887. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14921

Nunez, C., Hoots, J. K., Schepers, S. T., Bower, M., de Wit, H., & Wardle, M. C. (2022). Pharmacological investigations of effort-based decision-making in humans: Naltrexone and nicotine. PloS one, 17(10), e0275027. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275027

Glazer, J., Murray, C. H., Nusslock, R., Lee, R., & de Wit, H. (2023). Low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) increase reward-related brain activity. Neuropsychopharmacology, 48(2), 418–426. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01479-y

Krishnan, S, Bevins, RA, & de Wit, H (2023). Place conditioning in humans: opportunities for translational research. Psychopharmacology, 10.1007/s00213-023-06316-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-023-06316-8

Pabon, E, & de Wit, H (2023). Impaired inhibition after delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in women not related to circulating estradiol levels. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 225, 173547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2023.173547

Nurmi EL, CP Laughlin, H de Wit H, AA Palmer, J MacKillop, TD Cannon, RM Bilder, E Congdon, FW Sabb, LC Seaman, JJ McElroy, MR Libowitz, J Weafer, J Gray, AC Dean, GS Hellemann, and ED London (2023). Polygenic contributions to performance on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task.  Molecular Psychiatry (in press)

Crane, NA, H Molla, H de Wit (2023) Methamphetamine alters striatal neural activation to monetary reward in healthy young adults. Psychopharmacology (in press)

Bershad, AK, H de Wit (2023) Social psychopharmacology: novel approaches to treat deficits in social motivation in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin (in press)

Han, J, S Keedy, H de Wit (2023) Stimulant-like subjective effects of alcohol are not related to resting-state connectivity in healthy men. Cerebral Cortex (in press)

de Wit, H, M Heilig, AK Bershad (2023) Does acute stress play a role in the lasting therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs? Neuropsychopharmacology (in press)

Molla, H, S Keedy, H de Wit (2023) Methamphetamine enhances neural activation during anticipation of loss in the monetary incentive delay task.  Cerebral Cortex Communications.(in press)