Dr. Stephen T Higgins MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Specialist | Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
1 Medical Center Blvd Chester PA, 19013Rating
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Dr. Stephen Higgins is a Neonatal-Perinatal Physician practicing in Chester, PA. Dr. Higgins cares for the critically ill newborn and premature infants. Neonatal-Perinatal Physicians treat conditions such as breathing disorders, birth defects, infections, and any other life-threatening medical problems. They coordinate with their young patients families and other physicians to determine appropriate treatment.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Predictors of internalizing and externalizing problems among children of cocaine and opiate dependent parents.
- Contingent monetary reinforcement of smoking reductions, with and without transdermal nicotine, in outpatients with schizophrenia.
- Examining possible gender differences among cocaine-dependent outpatients.
- Voucher-based incentives. A substance abuse treatment innovation.
- Acute effects of D-amphetamine on progressive-ratio performance maintained by cigarette smoking and money.
- The validity of the reinstatement model of craving and relapse to drug use.
- A contingent payment model of smoking cessation: effects on abstinence and withdrawal.
- Community reinforcement therapy for cocaine-dependent outpatients.
- An historical note on Darwin and nonhuman drug self-administration.
- Clinical implications of reinforcement as a determinant of substance use disorders.
- An experimental test of the influence of prior cigarette smoking abstinence on
- Examining interrelationships between abstinence and coping self-efficacy in cocaine-dependent outpatients.
- An experimental examination of the initial weeks of abstinence in cigarette smokers.
- Influence of the duration of abstinence on the relative reinforcing effects of cigarette smoking.
- Characterizing and improving HIV/AIDS knowledge among cocaine-dependent outpatients.
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