810 W. Franklin Room 214 Dr. Eissenberg's primary area of research is the behavioral pharmacology of drugs of abuse. The goals of this research are to understand better the phenomenon of drug dependence and to treat more effectively dependent individuals who would like to decrease or eliminate their drug use. Students working in Dr. Eissenberg's laboratory can expect to plan, run, and report the results of experiments that use human subjects to investigate drug abuse issues. Current research involves understanding how pharmacologic and associative factors influence tobacco use and the contribution of drug-related cues on nicotine withdrawal.
Emphasis is placed on drug use as a behavioral phenomenon.
Dependent measures include amount, frequency, and duration of drug self-administration and subjective reports of drug effects. A secondary research area involves associative influences on human visual perception.