Richard Allen Brown
· Research ProfessorUniversity of Texas at Austin · School of Nursing
Active 1949–2025
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About
Dr. Richard A. Brown received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon in 1981, following completion of internship in clinical psychology at Brown Medical School. He held a faculty position at the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University, prior to returning to Brown University. During the 25 years prior to moving to UT Austin, he was in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, for most of that time as Full Professor and Director of Addictions Research at Butler Hospital. Dr. Brown has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Principal Investigator since 1992, having received 18 NIH- and 2 American Cancer Society-funded grants totaling $24 million, including funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Mental Health. He has also served as Co-PI or Co-Investigator on 24 NIH-funded grants, totaling another $35 million. Dr. Brown has published over 180 scientific journal articles, books, and book chapters. His research has focused on health behavior change, including the development of efficacious tobacco cessation treatments, specialized treatments for smokers with psychiatric and substance use disorders, and interventions for smokers living with HIV. His work also includes the efficacy of aerobic exercise in treating tobacco and other…
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Biology
- Genetics
- Neuroscience
- Computational biology
- Evolutionary biology
Selected publications
Addiction · 2021-05-25 · 24 citations
articleOpen accessBACKGROUND AND AIMS: People with anxiety disorders are more likely to smoke and less likely to succeed when they try to quit. Anxiety sensitivity may underlie both phenomena, such that people with high anxiety sensitivity react to interoceptive distress by avoidance. This study aimed to test the efficacy of an exercise program that induced interoceptive distress and thereby created tolerance to this distress in a safe environment. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: = 10.4] were adult, daily smoke…
Nursing Outlook · 2020 · 24 citations
Sustained Care Smoking Cessation Intervention for Individuals Hospitalized for Psychiatric Disorders
JAMA Psychiatry · 2021-05-06 · 23 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingImportance: Smoking among individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) represents a major public health problem. Intervening during a psychiatric hospital stay may provide an opportunity to aid engagement in smoking cessation treatment and facilitate success in quitting. Objective: To examine the effectiveness of a multicomponent, sustained care (SusC) smoking cessation intervention in adults with SMI receiving inpatient psychiatric care. Design, Setting, and Participants: The Helping HAND 3 ra…
Approach bias retraining to augment smoking cessation: A pilot randomized controlled trial
Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2022-07-25 · 10 citations
articleOpen accessBehavior Therapy · 2023-01-05 · 9 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 25 shared
Herbert Y. Meltzer
Northwestern University
- 25 shared
Jacob Abraham
Hope Heart Institute
- 25 shared
Seth P. Lerner
Baylor College of Medicine
- 25 shared
Shahrokh F. Shariat
Medical University of Vienna
- 21 shared
Thomas M. Wheeler
Kansas State University
- 19 shared
Inder M. Saxena
The University of Texas at Austin
- 19 shared
Tetsuo Kondo
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
- 17 shared
Robert R. Byrne
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium
Education
- 1981
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
University of Oregon
- 1977
M.A., Clinical Psychology
University of Maryland Baltimore County
- 1972
B.A., Psychology
University of Maryland
Awards & honors
- Fellow of the Society for Behavioral Medicine
- Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
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