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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dissertation: Reducing Substance Use via Implementation Intentions: A Treatment for Heath Risk
Behaviors. (April 28, 2017)
Advisor: Warren K. Bickel, Ph.D.
Committee: Christopher T. Franck, Ph.D., Robert S. Stephens, Ph.D., and George A. Clum, Ph.D.
Determining selective predictors of treatment outcomes across substance use disorders and treatments using data-
driving approaches
Characterization of and treatment development for rural populations including use of ecological momentary
assessments and interventions
Distinguishing patterns of decision-making using computational methods between current, former, and never
substance users
GRANT FUNDING
National Institute of Health (NIH). National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National
Research Service Award (F31 AA024368). The Selectivity of Working Memory Training on Self-Control
in Alcohol-Dependence. Principal Investigator, August 2015 August 2017. Direct Costs: $70,312.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Moody, L.N.. Tegge, A.N., Poe, L.M., Koffarnus, M.N. & Bickel, W.K. (Revise and resubmit) To Drink More or
to Drink Less? Distinguishing between effects of implementation intentions on decisions to drink and
how much to drink. Addictive Behaviors.
Bickel, W.K., Moody, L. Koffarnus, M., Thomas, J.G., Wing, R. (Under review) Self-control as Measured by
Delay Discounting is Greater Among Successful Weight Losers than Controls. Obesity.
Moody, L. Poe, L. & Bickel, W.K. (In press) Toward a Laboratory Model for Psychotherapeutic Treatment
Screening: Implementation intentions and incentives for abstinence in an analogue of smoking relapse.
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Moody, L., Satterwhite, E., & Bickel, W. (In press) Substance use in rural Central Appalachia: Current status and
treatment considerations. Journal of Rural Mental Health.
Moody, L.N., Tegge, A.N. & Bickel, W.K. (2017) Cross-commodity discounting of alcohol and money in alcohol
users: Evidence of differential valuation systems across commodities. The Psychological Record. Doi:
10.1007/s40732-017-0245-0
Bickel, W., Moody, L., Eddy, C. & Franck, C. (2017) Neurocognitive dysfunction in addiction: Testing
hypotheses of diffuse versus selective phenotypic dysfunction with a classification-based approach.
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Bickel, W.K., Pope, D., Moody, L. Stein, J., Mellis, A., Snider, S. (2017) Decision-based disorders: The
challenge of dysfunctional health behavior and the need for the science of behavior change. Policy
Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-8. doi: 10.1177/2372732216686085
Bickel, W.K., Moody, L. & Higgins, S. (2016). Current Dimensions of Behavioral Economics in Health Behavior
Change. Preventative Medicine, 92, 16-23.
Bickel, W.K., Mellis, L., Snider, S., Moody, L., Stein, J. & Quisenberry, A. (2016). Novel Therapeutics for
Addiction: Behavioral- and Neuro-economic Approaches. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry.
3(3):277-292. doi:10.1007/s40501-016-0088-3
Moody, L., Franck, C., & Bickel, W. (2016) Comorbid depression, antisocial personality, & substance dependence:
Effects on delay discounting. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 160: 190-196.
Moody, L., Franck, C., Hatz, L. & Bickel, W. (2015) Impulsivity and polysubstance use: A systematic comparison
of delay discounting in mono, dual, and tri-substance use. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
24(1): 30-37.
Bickel, W., Moody, L. & Quisenberry, A. (2015) Computerized working-memory training as a candidate adjunctive
treatment for addiction. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews. 36(1), 123-126.
Bickel, W., Moody, L., Quisenberry, A., Ramey, C. & Sheffer, C. (2014) A Competing Neurobehavioral Decision
System Model of SES-Related Health and Behavioral Disparities. Preventive Medicine. doi:
10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.06.032
Bickel, W., Quisenberry, A., Moody, L., Wilson, A. (2014) Therapeutic opportunities for self-control repair in
addiction and related disorders: Change and the limits of change in trans-disease processes. Clinical
Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/2167702614541260
Bickel, W., Wilson, A., Moody, L. & Koffarnus, M. (2014) The behavioral- and neuro- economic process of
temporal discounting: A candidate behavioral marker for addiction. Neuropharmacology. 76(B): 518-527.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.06.013
Feeney, E., Stephenson, D., Kleiman, R., Bove, S., Cron, C., Moody, L. & Ramirez, J. (2013)
Immunohistochemical characterization of axonal sprouting in mouse. Restorative Neurology and
Neuroscience. 31(5): 517-531. doi: 10.3233/RNN-130311
Krueger, F., Parasuraman, R., Moody, L., Twieg, P., de Visser, E., McCabe, K. & Lee, M. (2012) Oxytocin
selectively increases empathy for victims but not perpetrators of criminal offenses. Social Cognitive and
Affective Neuroscience. 8(5): 494-498. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss026
BOOK CHAPTERS
Bickel, W., Moody, L., Snider, S., Mellis, A., Stein, J. & Quisenberry, A. (2017) The behavioral economics of
tobacco products: Innovations in laboratory methods to inform regulatory science. In Y. Hanoch, T. Rice
and A. Barnes (Eds.), Behavioral Economics and Health Behaviors: Key concepts and current research.
Moody, L. & Bickel W.K. (2016). Substance Use and Addictions. In J. Luiselli & A. Fisher (Eds.), Computer-
Assisted and Web-Based innovations in Psychology, Special Education, and Health (pp. 157-186). Oxford:
Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-802075-3
PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION
Moody, L. & Bickel, W.K. (In prep) The predictive value of risk perceptions in tobacco regulator science. Target
journal: Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
Bickel, W.K., Moody, L. Koffarnus, M. & Tegge, A. (In prep) Constricted Discounting in Chronic Cocaine Users
Compared to Recreational Users and Community Controls. Target journal: Biological Psychiatry.
Moody, L. Sheffer, C., Tegge, A. & Bickel, W.K. (In prep) Delay Discounting as a Classification Tool for
Treatment Outcomes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Target journal: Biological Psychiatry.
Moody, L. Suicide Assessment in the Research Setting. Addiction Recovery Research Center, Roanoke, VA, May
2017.
Moody, L. The selectivity of working memory training on self-control in alcohol-dependence: An F31 proposal.
Developmental Psychology Datapalooza, Blacksburg, VA, October 2015.
Moody, L. Self-control, substance use, and avenues for repair. Multidepartment Professional Development
Meeting, Berkshire Medical Center. Pittsfield, MA, July 2014.
Moody, L. Franck, C., Hatz, L. & Bickel, W.K. Clarifying the relationship between delay discounting and
polysubstance users. Clinical Science Research Fair. Blacksburg, VA, August 2014.
PRESENTATIONS
Moody, L., Poe, L., Petrusky, O. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) An analogue of relapse: Comparing
monetary incentives, episodic future thinking, and implementation intentions. College on Problems of Drug
Dependence, Montreal, Canada. June 2017.
Moody, L., Poe, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Remote alcohol monitoring for behavioral interventions:
Implementation intentions as a strategy to reduce drinking. Association for Psychological Science, Boston,
MA. May 2017.
Moody, L., Poe, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Remote alcohol monitoring for behavioral interventions:
Implementation intentions as a strategy to reduce drinking. Transdisease Decision Processes and
Therapeutics Conference, Boston, MA. May 2017.
Moody, L., Poe, L., & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Experimental test of implementation intentions in a
laboratory analogue of relapse. Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Florence, Italy. March 2017.
Turner, J., Poe, L, Satterwhite, E. & Moody, L. (Poster presentation) Addiction in rural central Appalachia:
Utilizing local values to consider effective treatment avenues. Extreme Appalachia Conference,
Blacksburg, VA. March 2017.
Moody, L., Poe, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Implementation intentions and remote alcohol monitoring:
A behavioral intervention to reduce alcohol drinking. Association on Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies,
New York City, NY. Planned for October 2016.
Moody, L., Franck, C. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Are eating patterns indicative of addiction? Cross-
commodity discounting differentiates food and money. American Psychological Association, Denver, CO.
Planned for August 2016.
Moody, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Similarities across addiction processes: Cross-commodity
discounting of food, alcohol, and money. College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Palm Springs, CA.
Planned for June 2016.
Moody, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Delay discounting across time: Mental time travel and monetary
delay discounting from the future and past in heavy alcohol users. Research Society on Alcoholism, San
Antonio, TX. June 2015.
Moody, L., Franck, C. & Bickel, W.K. (Poster presentation) Delay discounting provides robust classification of
substance using and non-using individuals. American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada. August
2015
Moody, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Oral presentation) Symmetrical discounting of the future and the past in heavy smokers
and alcohol drinkers. College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Phoenix, AZ. June 2015.
Bickel, W., Moody, L, & Quisenberry, A. (Poster presentation) Reinforcement pathology: A comparison among
polysubstance users. Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH, Gaithersburg, MD, May 2015.
Moody, L. & Bickel, W. (Poster Presentation) Clarifying the relationship between executive function in combined
substance dependence with major depressive disorder or antisocial personality disorder. Association of
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, Philadelphia, PA, November 2014.
Moody, L., Washington, J. & Bickel, W. (Poster presentation) Executive function in comorbid substance
dependence, major depressive disorder, or antisocial personality disorder. American Psychological
Association. Washington, DC, August 2014.
Moody, L. & Bickel, W. (Poster presentation) Increased delay discounting in comorbid substance dependence and
major depressive disorder or antisocial personality disorder. American Psychological Association.
Washington, DC, August 2014.
Moody, L. Franck, C., Hatz, L. & Bickel, W.K. (Oral presentation) Delay discounting in polysubstance users. The
College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2014.
Bickel, W., Moody, L., Hatz, L. & Franck, C. (Poster presentation) Valuation of future rewards in alcohol users
with and without smoking dependency. Research Society on Alcoholism. Bellevue, WA, June 2014.
Moody, L. Franck, C., Mueller, E., Carter, A., Jarmolowicz, D., Gatchalian, K., Koffarnus, M. & Bickel, W. (Poster
Presentation) Executive functioning deficits in alcohol-dependent and alcohol- and cocaine-dependent
individuals. American Psychological Association. Honolulu, HI, August 2013.
Moody, L. Franck, C., Mueller, E., Carter, A., Jarmolowicz, D., Gatchalian, K., Koffarnus, M. & Bickel, W. (Poster
presentation) Executive functioning deficits in cocaine-dependent individuals. The College on Problems of
Drug Dependence. San Diego, CA, June 2013.
Bickel, W., Franck, C., Mueller, E., Carter, A., Jarmolowicz, D., Gatchalian, K., Koffarnus, M. & Moody, L. (Poster
presentation) Executive functioning differences in individuals with alcohol use disorders. Research Society
on Alcoholism. Orlando, FL, June 2013.
Moody, L., Parasuraman, R., Twieg, P., de Visser, E., McCabe, K., O'Hara, M., Lee, M. & Krueger, F. (Poster
presentation) Oxytocin increases empathy for victims of criminal offenses. Cognitive Neuroscience
Society. Chicago, IL, March 2012.
Bleda, M., Moody L., and Ramirez, J. (Poster presentation) Fimbria-fornix transection results in impaired
performance on a delayed non-matching-to-sample task. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
Washington, DC, November 2009.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
MENTORSHIP
Coordinator, Transdisease Decision Processes and Therapeutics Conference January 2016-May 2017
Big Sister, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia 2013Present
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Appalachian Studies Association Conference Fall 2016
Instructor, Oliver Hill Mentoring Program STEM Workshops Fall 2015 Spring 2017
Co-Leader, Clinical Psychology Peer Mentorship Program Co-leader, Fall 2015Fall 2016
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