Hamed Ekhtiari
Biographic Data
| ID | 5422604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamed Ekhtiari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamed |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekhtiari |
| SIGNATURE | EKHTIARI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6902-8798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Are you on the internet or using screen-based devices: Revisiting the concepts of ‘internet addiction’ and ‘smartphone addiction’
The concept of ‘internet addiction’ was introduced in the 1990s and has increasingly been recognized as a clinical and public health issue. Although umbrella terms can be useful for screening, theoretical considerations, and intervention planning, the term itself has received criticism because of its conceptual heterogeneity, implying an addiction to a medium and not including a wide range of problematic behavioral patterns that are below the dia…
Health response to problematic usage of the internet: A global survey on trends, available treatments and key challenges
Unraveling interoceptive processing and action dynamics: Exploring neural and psychological responses to food cues using fMRI
Problematic usage of the internet: Converging and diverging terminologies and constructs
Problematic usage of the internet (PUI) is an increasing global concern, leading to significant negative impacts in various levels. PUI is an umbrella term comprised of subcategories, including online gaming disorder, online gambling disorder, online buying-shopping disorder, online compulsive sexual behavior disorder, problematic usage of social media, cyberchondria, cyberbullying, and digital hoarding. With respect to the diversity of these cat…
Neuroscience-informed psychoeducation for addiction: A conceptual and feasibility study
Over the past few decades, our understanding of substance use disorders (SUD) has been reshaped by evidence from neuroscience, which suggests that SUD are characterized by specific neuromarkers that transcend traditional diagnostic boundaries and act as pre-diagnostic markers that could be targeted through preventive attempts. Connectivity-based neuromarkers or brain networks have emerged as a promising framework, providing new insights into the …
Efficacy of a neuroscience informed psychoeducation intervention on cognitive, emotional, and substance use outcomes in college students: A pilot study
These preliminary results support the potential of NIPA as an effective tool for increasing metacognitive awareness and enhancing cognitive resilience against stress and uncertainty. Future studies with larger samples, including a control group and follow-up assessments, are required to support these findings and assess the long-term effects of the intervention
World addiction medicine reports: Formation of the International Society of Addiction Medicine Global Expert Network (Isam-GEN) and its global surveys
Addiction medicine is a dynamic field that encompasses clinical practice and research in the context of societal, economic, and cultural factors at the local, national, regional, and global levels. This field has evolved profoundly during the past decades in terms of scopes and activities with the contribution of addiction medicine scientists and professionals globally. The dynamic nature of drug addiction at the global level has resulted in a cr…
An online global survey and follow-up expert groups on the scope and needs related to training, research, and mentorship among early-career addiction medicine professionals
Addiction medicine is a rapidly growing field with many young professionals seeking careers in this field. However, early-career professionals (ECPs) face challenges such as a lack of competency-based training due to a shortage of trainers, limited resources, limited mentorship opportunities, and establishment of suitable research areas. The International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) New Professionals Exploration, Training & Education (NE…
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
Public health risks associated with methadone in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Reorganization of Substance Use Treatment and Harm Reduction Services During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted people with substance use disorders (SUDs) worldwide, and healthcare systems have reorganized their services in response to the pandemic. Methods: One week after the announcement of the COVID-19 as a pandemic, in a global survey, 177 addiction medicine professionals described COVID-19-related health responses in their own 77 countries in terms of SUD treatment and harm redu…
Imagining the Future to Reshape the Past: A Path to Combine Cue Extinction and Memory Reconsolidation With Episodic Foresight for Addiction Treatment
Continuous maladaptive drug-related memories that are resistant to extinction and cause drug-seeking behaviors to be triggered are known to be one of the hallmarks of drug addiction (1). These drug-related memories are salient, strong, and persistent due to chronic maladaptive consolidation processes. Due to the salient content of drug-related memories formed during drug-taking behaviors, certain stimuli (e.g., peers, locations, paraphernalia) be…
Bias Toward Drug-Related Stimuli Is Affected by Loading Working Memory in Abstinent Ex-Methamphetamine Users
Background: There is a trade-off between drug-related impulsive process and cognitive reflective process among ex-drug abusers. The present study aimed to investigate the impulsive effects of methamphetamine-related stimuli on working memory (WM) performance by manipulating WM load in abstinent ex-methamphetamine users. Methods: Thirty abstinent ex-methamphetamine users and 30 nonaddict matched control participants were recruited in this study. W…
Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to t…
Advertising representation, treatment menu and economic circulation of substance misuse treatment centers in Iran: A rapid survey based on newspaper advertisements
Community-Based Relapse Prevention for Opiate Dependents: A Randomized Community Controlled Trial
Text messages as a tool for assessing public concern about drug problems
Methamphetamine use and methadone maintenance treatment: An emerging problem in the drug addiction treatment network in Iran
Text messages as a tool for assessing public concern about drug problems
Methamphetamine use and methadone maintenance treatment: An emerging problem in the drug addiction treatment network in Iran
Advertising representation, treatment menu and economic circulation of substance misuse treatment centers in Iran: A rapid survey based on newspaper advertisements
Community-Based Relapse Prevention for Opiate Dependents: A Randomized Community Controlled Trial
Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to t…
Bias Toward Drug-Related Stimuli Is Affected by Loading Working Memory in Abstinent Ex-Methamphetamine Users
Background: There is a trade-off between drug-related impulsive process and cognitive reflective process among ex-drug abusers. The present study aimed to investigate the impulsive effects of methamphetamine-related stimuli on working memory (WM) performance by manipulating WM load in abstinent ex-methamphetamine users. Methods: Thirty abstinent ex-methamphetamine users and 30 nonaddict matched control participants were recruited in this study. W…
Reorganization of Substance Use Treatment and Harm Reduction Services During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted people with substance use disorders (SUDs) worldwide, and healthcare systems have reorganized their services in response to the pandemic. Methods: One week after the announcement of the COVID-19 as a pandemic, in a global survey, 177 addiction medicine professionals described COVID-19-related health responses in their own 77 countries in terms of SUD treatment and harm redu…
Imagining the Future to Reshape the Past: A Path to Combine Cue Extinction and Memory Reconsolidation With Episodic Foresight for Addiction Treatment
Continuous maladaptive drug-related memories that are resistant to extinction and cause drug-seeking behaviors to be triggered are known to be one of the hallmarks of drug addiction (1). These drug-related memories are salient, strong, and persistent due to chronic maladaptive consolidation processes. Due to the salient content of drug-related memories formed during drug-taking behaviors, certain stimuli (e.g., peers, locations, paraphernalia) be…
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
Public health risks associated with methadone in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis
An online global survey and follow-up expert groups on the scope and needs related to training, research, and mentorship among early-career addiction medicine professionals
Addiction medicine is a rapidly growing field with many young professionals seeking careers in this field. However, early-career professionals (ECPs) face challenges such as a lack of competency-based training due to a shortage of trainers, limited resources, limited mentorship opportunities, and establishment of suitable research areas. The International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) New Professionals Exploration, Training & Education (NE…
World addiction medicine reports: Formation of the International Society of Addiction Medicine Global Expert Network (Isam-GEN) and its global surveys
Addiction medicine is a dynamic field that encompasses clinical practice and research in the context of societal, economic, and cultural factors at the local, national, regional, and global levels. This field has evolved profoundly during the past decades in terms of scopes and activities with the contribution of addiction medicine scientists and professionals globally. The dynamic nature of drug addiction at the global level has resulted in a cr…
Problematic usage of the internet: Converging and diverging terminologies and constructs
Problematic usage of the internet (PUI) is an increasing global concern, leading to significant negative impacts in various levels. PUI is an umbrella term comprised of subcategories, including online gaming disorder, online gambling disorder, online buying-shopping disorder, online compulsive sexual behavior disorder, problematic usage of social media, cyberchondria, cyberbullying, and digital hoarding. With respect to the diversity of these cat…
Neuroscience-informed psychoeducation for addiction: A conceptual and feasibility study
Over the past few decades, our understanding of substance use disorders (SUD) has been reshaped by evidence from neuroscience, which suggests that SUD are characterized by specific neuromarkers that transcend traditional diagnostic boundaries and act as pre-diagnostic markers that could be targeted through preventive attempts. Connectivity-based neuromarkers or brain networks have emerged as a promising framework, providing new insights into the …
Efficacy of a neuroscience informed psychoeducation intervention on cognitive, emotional, and substance use outcomes in college students: A pilot study
These preliminary results support the potential of NIPA as an effective tool for increasing metacognitive awareness and enhancing cognitive resilience against stress and uncertainty. Future studies with larger samples, including a control group and follow-up assessments, are required to support these findings and assess the long-term effects of the intervention
Are you on the internet or using screen-based devices: Revisiting the concepts of ‘internet addiction’ and ‘smartphone addiction’
The concept of ‘internet addiction’ was introduced in the 1990s and has increasingly been recognized as a clinical and public health issue. Although umbrella terms can be useful for screening, theoretical considerations, and intervention planning, the term itself has received criticism because of its conceptual heterogeneity, implying an addiction to a medium and not including a wide range of problematic behavioral patterns that are below the dia…
Health response to problematic usage of the internet: A global survey on trends, available treatments and key challenges
Unraveling interoceptive processing and action dynamics: Exploring neural and psychological responses to food cues using fMRI
Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Addiction (7 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works)