Yang Lu, M.S., and Catharine E. Fairbairn, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) join AJP Audio to discuss the longitudinal effects of the use of personal alcohol breathalyzers in a natural setting on alcohol usage. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin joins the podcast to discuss the rest of the April issue, which focuses on subjects related to substance use disorders.

• 00:57 What did you discover about the long term effects of using a personal blood alcohol monitor?
• 03:12 Do health monitoring devices actually change behaviors?
• 04:10 What did your cohort look like?
• 08:49 Disparate impact of monitoring on heavy drinkers and light drinkers
• 11:36 Clinical implications
• 14:34 Limitations
• 15:46 Avenues for further research
• 18:39 Kalin interview
• 18:46 Lu et al.
• 24:00 Wittekind et al.
• 29:50 Nicholson et al.

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Chelsea Dyan Gober Dykan, M.A. (Tel Aviv University, Israel), joins AJP Audio to discuss a study looking at two versions of attention bias modification with an eye towards a prophylactic impact on developing PTSD in a cohort of combat-bound soldiers. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin joins the podcast to put the rest of the March issue into context.

• 00:57 Attention bias modifications
• 03:54 Response-time and gaze-contingent paradigms
• 05:05 Differences in efficacy between the two arms
• 08:06 Ethical considerations in investigating combat-bound soldiers
• 10:44 Controlling for combat experiences in studying PTSD
• 12:24 Duration of the effect
• 13:44 Limitations
• 15:03 Immediate clinical implications
• 16:22 Further research
• 17:05 Kalin interview
• 17:22 Dykan et al.
• 21:03 Kaul et al.
• 26:19 Kantrowitz et al.

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Dr. Ian Kelleher (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) joins AJP Audio to discuss an emulated target trial looking at the prophylactic qualities of doxycycline, an antibiotic, in an adolescent population at risk to develop schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin joins the podcast to put the rest of the issue into context.

• 00:53 Doxycycline and the risk of developing schizophrenia
• 04:03 Emulated target trials versus randomized control trials
• 06:43 Methods of action
• 09:24 Dosage and exposure levels for doxycycline
• 10:15 Immediate clinical applications
• 10:56 Limitations of the study
• 11:33 Future research
• 12:43 Kalin interview
• 13:00 Lång et al.
• 19:43 Zhao et al.
• 25:20 Metrik et al.

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