Publications by authors named "G Ferris Wayne"
Article Synopsis
- Many U.S. states improved Medicaid coverage for tobacco dependence treatment (TDT) in the last fifteen years, but its effects on smoking behaviors, particularly for individuals with substance use disorders (SUD), are unclear.
- A study using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2009-2018) examined the smoking habits of Medicaid beneficiaries aged 18-64 with SUD, finding that the expansion of TDT coverage did not significantly impact smoking cessation or nicotine dependence.
- The research concluded that comprehensive TDT coverage did not lead to changes in smoking behaviors among Medicaid beneficiaries with SUD, suggesting that additional interventions may be required to effectively address smoking among this population.
Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of behaviours. How such control is implemented by the brain, however, remains unclear. Advancing our understanding requires models that can relate principles of control to the structure of neural activity in behaving animals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReplay in the brain has been viewed as rehearsal or, more recently, as sampling from a transition model. Here, we propose a new hypothesis: that replay is able to implement a form of compositional computation where entities are assembled into relationally bound structures to derive qualitatively new knowledge. This idea builds on recent advances in neuroscience, which indicate that the hippocampus flexibly binds objects to generalizable roles and that replay strings these role-bound objects into compound statements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To estimate recent trends in cigarette use and health insurance coverage for United States adults with and without mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD).
Design: Event study analysis of smoking and insurance coverage trends among US adults with and without MH/SUD using 2008-19 public use data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual, cross-sectional survey.
Setting: USA.