David J. Drobes
David J. Drobes
Professor, Departments of Oncologic Sciences & Psychology
University of South Florida
Associate Director, Tobacco Research and Intervention Program
Moffitt Cancer Center
Contact
Office: MDC 44(FOW-TRIP)
Phone: 813/745-1751
Fax: 813/745-1755
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Education
B.A., Psychology, 1984, State University of New York at Albany
M.S., Psychology, 1997, Purdue University
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1993, Purdue University
Teaching
Ph.D. Areas: Clinical
Research
My research program encompasses a broad perspective towards addictive behaviors, with most work focused on nicotine/tobacco, alcohol, and interactions between tobacco and alcohol. I use primarily human laboratory paradigms to examine motivational features of addiction, incorporating psychophysiological, subjective, and behavioral/cognitive indices. Recent work has focused on cue-elicited craving among smokers and alcoholics, and attempts to manipulate cue reactivity using brief interventions. Other current topics include (1) behavioral genetic markers of tobacco addiction, (2) effects of nicotine on attentional cognitive processing, (3) comorbidity between addiction and psychopathology, and (4) the relationship between alcohol-related expectancies and cue reactivity.
Current Courses
Recent Publications
Drobes, D.J., Meier, E.A., & Tiffany. S.T. (1994). Assessment of the effects of urges and negative affect on smokers' coping skills. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 32, 165-174.
Drobes, D.J., & Tiffany, S.T. (1997). Induction of smoking urge through imaginal and in vivo procedures: Physiological and self-report manifestations. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 15-25.
Anton, R.F., & Drobes, D.J. (1998). Clinical measurement of craving in addiction. Psychiatric Annals, 28, 553-560.
Drobes, D.J., & Anton, R.F. (2000). Drinking in alcoholics following an alcohol challenge research protocol. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61, 220-224.
Drobes, D.J., Miller, E.J., Hillman, C.H., Bradley, M.M., Cuthbert, B.N., & Lang, P.J. (2001). Food deprivation and emotional reactions to food cues: Implications for eating disorders. Biological Psychology, 57, 153-177.
George, M.S., Anton, R.F., Bloomer, C., Teneback, C., Drobes, D.J., Lorberbaum, J.P., Nahas, Z., & Vincent, D.J. (2001). Activation of prefrontal cortex and anterior thalamus in alcoholics on exposure to alcohol specific cues. Archives of General Psychiatry, 58, 345-352.
Saladin, M.E., Drobes, D.J., Coffey, S.F., & Libet, J.M. (2002). The human startle reflex and alcohol cue reactivity: Effects of early versus late abstinence. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16, 98-105.
Drobes, D.J. (2002). Concurrent alcohol and tobacco dependence: Mechanisms and treatment. Alcohol Research & Health, 26, 136-142.
Drobes, D.J. (2002). Cue reactivity in alcohol and tobacco dependence. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26, 1928-1929.
Cuthbert, B.N., Lang, P.J., Strauss, C., Drobes, D.J., Patrick, C.J., & Bradley, M.M. (2003). The psychophysiology of anxiety disorder: Fear memory imagery. Psychophysiology, 40, 407-422.
Drobes, D.J., Anton, R.F., Thomas, S.E., & Voronin, K. (2003). A clinical laboratory paradigm for evaluating medication effects on alcohol consumption: Naltrexone and nalmefene. Neuropsychopharmacology, 28, 755-764.
Saladin, M.E., Drobes, D.J., Coffey, S.F., Dansky, B.S., Brady, K.T., & Kilpatrick, D.G. (2003). PTSD diagnosis and symptom severity as predictors of cue-elicited drug craving. Addictive Behaviors, 28, 1611-1629.
Carrigan, M.H., Drobes, D.J., & Randall, C.L. (2004). Attentional bias and drinking to cope with social anxiety. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18, 374-380.
Drobes, D.J., Anton, R.F., Thomas, S.E., & Voronin, K. (2004). Effects of naltrexone and nalmefene on subjective response to alcohol among non-treatment seeking alcoholics and social drinkers. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 28, 1362-1370.
Myrick, H., Anton, R.F., Li, X., Henderson, S., Drobes, D.J., Voronin, K., & George, M.S. (2004). Differential brain activity in alcoholics and social drinkers to alcohol cues: Relationship to craving. Neuropsychopharmacology, 29, 393-402.
Drobes, D.J., Munafò, M.R., Leigh, F., & Saladin, M.E. (2005). A family smoking index to capture genetic influence in smoking: Rationale and two validation studies. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 7, 41-46.
Thomas, S., Drobes, D.J., & Dias, D. (2005). Alcohol cue reactivity in alcohol dependent adolescents. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 66, 354-360.
Drobes, D.J., Elibero, A., & Evans, D.E. (2006). Attentional bias for smoking and affective stimuli: A Stroop task study. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 490-495.
Hendricks, P.S., Ditre, J.W., Drobes, D.J., & Brandon, T.H. (2006). The early time course of smoking withdrawal effects. Psychopharmacology, 187, 385-396.
Upadhyaya, H.P., Drobes, D.J., & Wang, W. (2006). Reactivity to in vivo smoking cues in older adolescent cigarette smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 8, 135-140.
Lopez, E.N., Drobes, D.J., Thompson, J.K., & Brandon, T.H. (2008). Effects of a body image challenge on smoking motivation among college females. Health Psychology, 27 (3,supplement), S243-S251.
Rash, C.J., Coffey, S.F., Baschnagel, J.S., Drobes, D.J., & Saladin, M.E. (2008). Psychometric properties of the IES-R in traumatized substance dependent individuals with and without PTSD. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1039-1047.
Baschnagel, J.S., Coffey, S.F., Schumacher, J.A., Drobes, D.J., & Saladin, M.E. (in press). Relationship between PTSD symptomatology and nicotine dependence severity in crime victims. Addictive Behaviors.
Evans, D.E., & Drobes, D.J. (in press). Nicotine self-medication of cognitive-attentional processing. Addiction Biology.
Mason, B.J., Light, J.M., Escher, T., & Drobes, D.J. (in press). Effect of positive and negative affective stimuli and beverage cues on measures of craving in non treatment-seeking alcoholics. Psychopharmacology.