Completed Grants

Extramural

Machine learning-assisted precision mental health for cigarette smoking cessation.
National Institute of Mental Health National Research Service Award (F31 DA056144; Graduate Student: G. Fronk)
John Curtin (PI)
Direct Costs: $56,946
Status: Completed. 11/15/2022 – 8/1/2024

Real-time predictors of prescription drug misuse by college students and assessment of misuse on their developmental trajectories.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA042093)
Lauren M Papp (PI), John Curtin (Co-I)
Direct Costs: $1,574,300
Status: Completed. 04/01/2017 – 02/28/2023

Dynamic, real-time prediction of alcohol use lapse using mHealth technologies.
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA024391)
John Curtin (PI), Xiaojin Zhu (Co-I), Oguzhan Alagoz (Co-I), David Gustafson (Co-I)
Direct Costs: $1,237,770
Status: Completed. 08/10/2015 – 05/31/2022

RCT targeting noradrenergic stress mechanisms in alcoholism with doxazosin.
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA024388)
John Curtin (PI), Craig Berridge (Co-I), Aleksandra Zgierska (Co-I)
Direct Costs: $1,420,889
Status: Completed. 09/01/2015 – 05/31/2021

Clinical relevance of stress neuroadaptation in tobacco dependence.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA033809)
John Curtin (PI), Timothy Baker (Co-I), Megan Piper (Co-I), Daniel Bolt (Co-I)
Direct costs: $1,508,145
Status: Completed. 08/2012 – 06/2018

Repurposing alpha1 noradrenergic antagonists for alcoholism treatment.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Research Service Award (F31 AA022845)
Jesse Kaye (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor), Craig Berridge (Co-Sponsor).
Direct costs: $93,075
Status: Completed. 09/2014 – 08/2017

Anxiety and biased decision-making in drug-deprived marijuana users.
National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Research Service Award (F31 DA032184)
Kathryn Hefner (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $89,223
Status: Completed. 09/2011 – 08/2014

Matching cognitive remediation to cognitive deficits in substance-abusing inmates.
John Curtin (MPI), Joseph Newman (MPI)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21 DA030876)
Direct costs: $275,000
Status: Completed. 09/2010 – 08/2014

Neural processes underlying the effects of stress on behavioral inhibition.
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-0718123)
Jesse Kaye (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $154,995
Status: Completed. 09/2010 – 8/2013

Predicting quit success: physiological measures and real-world experiences of negative affect during nicotine withdrawal.
National Cancer Institute Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, Pre-doctoral Grant Program (P50CA143188)
Kathryn Hefner (Trainee), Jesse Kaye (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $30,000
Status: Completed. 09/2010 – 08/2011

Stress neuroadaptations in alcoholism.
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Research Service Award (F31 AA018608)
Christine Moberg (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $84,230
Status: Completed. 08/2009 – 07/2012

Cognitive-emotion interactions in psychopathy.
National Institute on Mental Health (R01 MH078980)
John Curtin (MPI), Joseph Newman (MPI)
Direct costs: $1,150,000
Status: Completed. 07/2007 – 06/2013

Sex differences in the effect of smoking withdrawal on emotion response.
National Institute of Drug Abuse (R36 DA022373)
Joanne Hogle (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $100,000
Status: Completed, 10/2006 – 09/2008

Cognitive control deficits in alcoholism risk.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA15384)
John Curtin (PI), Timothy Baker (Co-I), Alan Lang (Consultant), Kenneth Sher (Consultant)
Direct costs: $1,012,500
Status: Completed. 04/2006 – 03/2011

Tobacco withdrawal, relapse, and negative affect: A component process analysis.
National Cancer Institute / National Institute on Drug Abuse Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center Award (sub-award P50 DA19706)
Direct costs: $32,000
John Curtin (PI)
Status: Completed. 07/2005 – 06/2006

Transdisciplinary tobacco use research center.
National Cancer Institute/National Institute on Drug Abuse (P50 DA19706)
John Curtin (sub-award PI), T. Baker (PI)
Direct costs: $32,000
Status: Completed. 07/2005 – 06/2006

Electrophysiological examination of mechanisms underlying alcohol effects on behavioral regulation.
Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $94,667
Status: Completed. 06/2004 – 05/2006

Color-naming performance in nicotine withdrawal and during stress.
National Cancer Institute/National Institute on Drug Abuse Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, Pre-doctoral Grant
Danielle McCarthy (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $10,000
Status: Completed. 09/2003 – 08/2004

Stress effects on expectancy and urge.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R03 AA1035032)
Jennifer Read (PI), John Curtin (Consultant)
Status: Completed. 0 8/2003 – 07/2006

Sex differences in the effect of smoking withdrawal on psychophysiological indices of affective motivation.
National Cancer Institute Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, Pre-doctoral Grant Program
Joanne Hogle (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $10,000
Status: Completed. 09/2003 – 08/2004

Characterizing the negative affect dynamics of nicotine withdrawal.
National Cancer Institute Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, Pre-doctoral Grant Program
Megan Piper (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $10,000
Status: Completed. 09/2002 – 08/2003

Alcohol effects on explicit cue vs. contextual fear.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R03 AA13422)
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $100,000
Status: Completed. 03/2002 – 02/2004

Interactive effects of nicotine on cognitive processing, fear response and task performance.
National Cancer Institute Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center Award (sub-award P50 CA84724)
John Curtin (sub-award PI), Michael Fiore (PI)
Direct costs: $39,446
Status: Completed. 10/2001 – 09/2002

Probing affective and cognitive effects of alcohol.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA12164)
Alan Lang (PI), John Curtin (Consultant)
Status: Completed. 03/2000 – 02/2006

Alcohol, emotion, and event related potentials.
National Research Service Award for Independent Research National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (F31 AA05511)
Direct costs: $18,000
Status: Completed. 04/1998 – 03/1999

Intramural:

Noradrenergic stress mechanisms in alcoholism: Preclinical translation and drug repurposing.
University of Wisconsin, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $36,097
Status: Completed. 07/2015 – 06/2016

Test-retest reliability of physiological indices of affective state in the NPU-threat and IAPS tasks. (Senior Honors Thesis)
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
C. Rohrer (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 09/2013 – 08/2014

Certain vs. uncertain reward valuation during marijuana withdrawal.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
J. Idlas (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor).
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 09/2012 – 08/2013

Stress, Anxiety, and Alcoholism: Affective Contributions to the Maintenance of Addiction.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program
Christine Moberg (Trainee), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $6,000
Status: Completed. 03/2010 – 04/2011

Psychological and neurological effects during fear conditioning in psychopathic offenders.
John Curtin (Co-PI), Joseph Newman (PI)
University of Wisconsin Intercampus Research Incentive grant.
Direct costs: $50,000
Status: Completed. 09/2010 – 08/2011

Alcohol and anxiety: Effects of spatial uncertainty.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
Benjamin Shapiro (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 09/2010 – 08/2011

H.I. Romnes Award for Research Excellence.
University of Wisconsin
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $50,000
Status: Completed. 09/2006 – 08/2014

Food addiction: Withdrawal-related increases in anxiety among high-sugar food dependent individuals.
Senior Honors Thesis Summer Research Grant
Walter Craig Williams (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $3,000
Status: Completed: 09/2009 – 08/2010

Effects of tobacco withdrawal on executive control of attention.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
Jesse Kaye (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 07/2006 – 06/2007

Emotion and emotion regulation deficits among individuals with a family history of alcohol use disorders.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
S. Abramovitz and V. Yeh (Undergraduate Student Researchers), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 07/2005 – 06/2006

Alcohol and behavioral regulation: Examination of components of executive attention cognitive control.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Research Award
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $19,873
Status: Completed. 07/2003 – 06/2004

Emotion and emotion regulation deficits among individuals with a family history of alcohol use disorders.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
M. Gulotta (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 07/2003 – 06/2004

Heart rate increase and EEG asymmetry response indices of approach motivation: Mechanisms responsible for alcohol use disorder risk.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
B. Weiss (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 07/2003 – 06/2004

Alcohol effects on regulative and evaluative components of cognitive control.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
P. Rothwell (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $5,000
Status: Completed. 07/2002 – 06/2003

Alcohol and stress response: A test of the mediating role of attentional focus using startle probe methodology.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
B. Worden (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $4,000
Status: Completed. 07/2002 – 06/2003

Alcohol and fear response: Dissociation in explicit vs. contextual fear.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Research Award
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $16,779
Status: Completed. 07/2001 – 06/2002

Alcohol and intoxicated behavior: The mediating role of acute deficits in attentional processing.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
D. Green (Undergraduate Student Researcher), John Curtin (Sponsor)
Direct costs: $4,000
Status: Completed. 07/2001 – 06/2002

Adolescent cue reactivity: Examining approach and avoidance component processes.
Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium Research Grant
John Curtin (PI)
Direct costs: $1,000
Status: Completed. 08/1999 – 07/2000

Dissertation Research Grant.
Florida State University
John Curtin (PI)
Status: Completed. 1999

Kellogg Dissertation Award.
Department of Psychology, Florida State University
John Curtin (PI)
Status: Completed. 1999