Socioeconomic disparities in telephone-based treatment of tobacco dependence.

Objectives: We examined socioeconomic disparities in tobacco dependence treatment outcomes from a free, proactive telephone counseling quitline.

Methods: We delivered cognitive-behavioral treatment and nicotine patches to 6626 smokers and examined socioeconomic differences in demographic, clinical, environmental, and treatment use factors. We used logistic regressions and generalized estimating equations (GEE) to model abstinence and account for socioeconomic differences in the models.

In-person and telephone treatment of tobacco dependence: a comparison of treatment outcomes and participant characteristics.

Objectives: We compared participant characteristics and abstinence outcomes of smokers who chose in-person or telephone tobacco dependence treatment.

Methods: We provided the same treatment content to 7267 smokers in Arkansas between 2005 and 2008 who self-selected treatment modality; examined demographic, clinical, environmental, and treatment utilization differences between modalities; and modeled outcomes and participants' choice of modality with logistic regression.

Results: At end of treatment, in-person participants were more likely to be abstinent than telephone participants, and smokers of higher socioeconomic status (SES) were more likely to be abstinent with telephone treatment than lower-SES smokers.

Socioeconomic disparities in community-based treatment of tobacco dependence.

Objectives: We examined socioeconomic disparities in a community-based tobacco dependence treatment program.

Methods: We provided cognitive-behavioral treatment and nicotine patches to 2739 smokers. We examined treatment use, clinical and environmental, and treatment outcome differences by socioeconomic status (SES).

Improvement in arousal, visual neglect, and perception of stimulus intensity following cold pressor stimulation.

The relationship between arousal, perception, and visual neglect was examined in this case study. Cold pressor stimulation (CPS: immersing the foot in iced water) was used to manipulate arousal and to determine its effects on contralesional neglect, perception of stimulus intensity (magnitude estimation), reaction time, and an electrophysiological correlate of ascending reticular activating system activity (i.e.

Variable changes in PET activity before and after rTMS treatment for tinnitus.

Objectives/hypothesis: The objective was to determine whether low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) improves tinnitus by decreasing neural activity in auditory processing regions of the temporal cortex and the utility of positron emission tomography (PET) for targeting treatment.

Study Design: Randomized, sham-controlled crossover.

Methods: Patients received a five-day course of active and sham 1-Hz rTMS (1800 pulses at 110% of motor threshold) to the temporal cortex, with a week separating active and sham treatment.