Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Director, Duluth Medical Research Institute; Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Department of Family Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School

malabsi@d.umn.edu
218-726-7144 — office

Research Interests

Examining psychobiological mechanisms of stress and pain as potential pathways through which stress may increase risk for health problems and addiction.

Selected Publications

al'Absi, M. (2007). Stress and Addiction: Biological and Psychosocial Mechanisms. Book in preparation to be published by Elsevier, London, U.K.

al'Absi, M., France, C.R., France, J., Harju, & Wittmers, L.E. (2006). Adrenocortical and nociceptive responses to opioid blockade in hypertension-prone men and women. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 292-298.

al'Absi, M. (2006). Altered psychoendocrine responses to psychological stress and smoking relapse. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 59, 218-227

al'Absi, M., Devereux, R. B. Rao, D.C., Kitzman, D., Oberman, A., Hopkins, P., & Arnett, D. (2006). Blood pressure stress reactivity and left ventricular mass in a random community sample of African American and Caucasian men and women. American Journal of Cardiology, 97, 240-244.

al'Absi, M, France, C.R., France, J., Harju, A., Ring, C., McIntyre, D., & Wittmers, L.E. (2005) Effects of baroreflex stimulation on pain perception and nociceptive flexion reflex in men and women. Psychophysiology, 42, 83-91.

al'Absi, M., Hatsukami, D., & Davis, G. (2005). Attenuated adrenocorticotropic responses to psychological stress are associated with early smoking relapse. Psychopharmacology 181:107-117.