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Brian Eastwood

Public Health England
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Experimental manipulation of attentional bias increases the motivation to drink alcohol

M Field, B Eastwood - Psychopharmacology, 2005 - Springer
Rationale Attentional bias for alcohol-related cues is associated with the motivation to drink
alcohol, possibly because attentional bias increases craving. Objectives We examined …

A comparison of assay performance measures in screening assays: signal window, Z'factor, and assay variability ratio

PW Iversen, BJ Eastwood… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the authors compare the assay performance measures, signalwindow, Z' factor,
and assay variability ratio. They examine their mathematical formulae for similarities and …

Development of the treatment outcomes profile

…, M Farrell, C Bradbury, A Dale‐Perera, B Eastwood… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To develop the Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP), a new instrument for monitoring
substance misuse treatment. Design Prospective cohort, psychometric evaluation with 7‐day …

Rapid approach responses to alcohol cues in heavy drinkers

M Field, A Kiernan, B Eastwood, R Child - Journal of behavior therapy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Incentive-motivational models of addiction predict that alcohol cues should elicit approach
behaviours in heavy drinkers. In this study we compared heavy and light social drinkers’ …

Experimental manipulation of attentional biases in heavy drinkers: do the effects generalise?

M Field, T Duka, B Eastwood, R Child… - …, 2007 - Springer
Rationale In heavy drinkers, training attention towards alcohol cues increases alcohol
craving, but it is not clear if effects of ‘attentional training’ generalise to novel stimuli and …

Selective processing of cannabis cues in regular cannabis users

M Field, B Eastwood, BP Bradley, K Mogg - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2006 - Elsevier
Recent studies indicate that the regular use of certain drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol, is
associated with biases in the processing of drug-related cues, as those cues grab attention, …

Does exposure to opioid substitution treatment in prison reduce the risk of death after release? A national prospective observational study in England

…, G Stillwell, H Jones, A Cooper, B Eastwood… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims People with opioid use disorder (OUD) in prison face an acute risk of
death after release. We estimated whether prison‐based opioid substitution treatment (OST) …

[HTML][HTML] HTS assay validation

…, W Dere, V Devanarayan, BJ Eastwood… - Assay guidance …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Assays employed in HTS and lead optimization projects in drug discovery should be rigorously
validated both for biological and pharmacological relevance, as well as for robustness of …

[HTML][HTML] Young people's use of e-cigarettes across the United Kingdom: findings from five surveys 2015–2017

L Bauld, AM MacKintosh, B Eastwood, A Ford… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Concern has been expressed about the use of e-cigarettes among young people. Our study
reported e-cigarette and tobacco cigarette ever and regular use among 11–16 year olds …

Prevalence of non‐cavitated and cavitated carious lesions in a random sample of 7‐9‐year‐old schoolchildren in Montreal, Quebec

…, T Hamalian, M Olivier, BJ Eastwood - … dentistry and oral …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
This report describes the prevalence of non‐cavitated and cavitated carious lesions in 911
randomly selected children in grades one through three on the Island of Montreal. Quebec, …