Devlin Eckardt

Abstract Evidence shows that responses to health crises often worsen existing disparities. As the approval of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine for people 12 years and older became imminent in the spring of 2021, our institution sought to meet the urgent need to vaccinate the young people in our community facing inequities in pandemic response.

Abstract Incubation of craving is a phenomenon describing the intensification of craving for a reward over extended periods of abstinence from reinforcement. Animal models employ instrumental markers of craving to reward cues to examine incubation, while homologous human paradigms often rely on subjective self-reports. Here, we characterize a novel human paradigm that showed strong positive relationships between self-reports and instrumental markers of craving.