Publications

Pantazopoulos H, Gamble K, Stork O, Amir S (2018) Circadian rhythms in regulation of brain processes and role in psychiatric disorders. Neural Plast 2018:5892657. [PubMed] [DOI]

Liu D, Stowie A, de Zavalia N, Leise T, Pathak SS, Drewes LR, Davidson AJ, Amir S, Sonenberg N, Cao R (2018) mTOR signaling in VIP neurons regulates circadian clock synchrony and olfaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115:E3296-E3304. [PubMed] [DOI]

Anyan J, Amir S (2018) Too depressed to swim or too afraid to stop? A reinterpretation of the forced swim test as a measure of anxiety-like behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology 43:931-933. [PubMed] [DOI]

Hood S, Amir S (2018) Biological clocks and rhythms of anger and aggression. Front Behav Neurosci 12:4. [PubMed] [DOI]

Reynolds LM, Yetnikoff L, Pokinko M, Wodzinski M, Epelbaum JG, Lambert LC, Cossette MP, Arvanitogiannis A, Flores C (2018) Early adolescence is a critical period for the maturation of inhibitory behavior. Cereb Cortex 2018:5892657. [PubMed] [DOI]

Cuesta S, Restrepo-Lozano JM, Silvestrin S, Nouel D, Torres-Berrio A, Reynolds LM, Arvanitogiannis A, Flores C (2018) Non-contingent exposure to amphetamine in adolescence recruits miR-218 to regulate Dcc expression in the VTA. Neuropsychopharmacology 43:900-911. [PubMed] [DOI]

Walker DM, Cates HM, Loh YE, Purushothaman I, Ramakrishnan A, Cahill KM, Lardner CK, Godino A, Kronman HG, Rabkin J, Lorsch ZS, Mews P, Doyle MA, Feng J, Labonte B, Koo JW, Bagot RC, Logan RW, Seney ML, Calipari ES, Shen L, Nestler EJ (2018) Cocaine self-administration alters transcriptome-wide responses in the brain's reward circuitry. Biol Psychiatry 84:867-880. [PubMed] [DOI]

Ribeiro EA, Salery M, Scarpa JR, Calipari ES, Hamilton PJ, Ku SM, Kronman H, Purushothaman I, Juarez B, Heshmati M, Doyle M, Lardner C, Burek D, Strat A, Pirpinias S, Mouzon E, Han MH, Neve RL, Bagot RC, Kasarskis A, Koo JW, Nestler EJ (2018) Transcriptional and physiological adaptations in nucleus accumbens somatostatin interneurons that regulate behavioral responses to cocaine. Nat Commun 9:3149. [PubMed] [DOI]

Cates HM, Heller EA, Lardner CK, Purushothaman I, Pena CJ, Walker DM, Cahill ME, Neve RL, Shen L, Bagot RC, Nestler EJ (2018) Transcription factor E2F3a in nucleus accumbens affects cocaine action via transcription and alternative splicing. Biol Psychiatry 84:167-179. [PubMed] [DOI]

Cahill ME, Walker DM, Gancarz AM, Wang ZJ, Lardner CK, Bagot RC, Neve RL, Dietz DM, Nestler EJ (2018) The dendritic spine morphogenic effects of repeated cocaine use occur through the regulation of serum response factor signaling. Mol Psychiatry 23:1474-1486. [PubMed] [DOI]

Hultman R, Ulrich K, Sachs BD, Blount C, Carlson DE, Ndubuizu N, Bagot RC, Parise EM, Vu MT, Gallagher NM, Wang J, Silva AJ, Deisseroth K, Mague SD, Caron MG, Nestler EJ, Carin L, Dzirasa K (2018) Brain-wide electrical spatiotemporal dynamics encode depression vulnerability. Cell 173:166-180.e14. [PubMed] [DOI]

Lorsch ZS, Loh YE, Purushothaman I, Walker DM, Parise EM, Salery M, Cahill ME, Hodes GE, Pfau ML, Kronman H, Hamilton PJ, Issler O, Labonte B, Symonds AE, Zucker M, Zhang TY, Meaney MJ, Russo SJ, Shen L, Bagot RC, Nestler EJ (2018) Estrogen receptor alpha drives pro-resilient transcription in mouse models of depression. Nat Commun 9:1116. [PubMed] [DOI]

Muir J, Lorsch ZS, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Nestler EJ, Calipari ES, Bagot RC (2018) In vivo fiber photometry reveals signature of future stress susceptibility in nucleus accumbens. Neuropsychopharmacology 43:255-263. [PubMed] [DOI]

Minogianis EA, Shams WM, Mabrouk OS, Wong JT, Brake WG, Kennedy RT, du Souich P, Samaha AN (2018) Varying the rate of intravenous cocaine infusion influences the temporal dynamics of both drug and dopamine concentrations in the striatum. Eur J Neurosci 2018:5892657. [PubMed] [DOI]

Shams WM, Cossette MP, Shizgal P, Brake WG (2018) 17beta-estradiol locally increases phasic dopamine release in the dorsal striatum. Neurosci Lett 665:29-32. [PubMed] [DOI]

Reed SJ, Lafferty CK, Mendoza JA, Yang AK, Davidson TJ, Grosenick L, Deisseroth K, Britt JP (2018) Coordinated reductions in excitatory input to the nucleus accumbens underlie food consumption. Neuron 99:1260-1273.e4. [PubMed] [DOI]

Villaruel FR, Lacroix F, Sanio C, Sparks DW, Chapman CA, Chaudhri N (2018) Optogenetic activation of the infralimbic cortex suppresses the return of appetitive Pavlovian-conditioned responding following extinction. Cereb Cortex 28:4210-4221. [PubMed] [DOI]

Batallan-Burrowes AA, Chapman CA (2018) Dopamine suppresses persistent firing in layer III lateral entorhinal cortex neurons. Neurosci Lett 674:70-74. [PubMed] [DOI]

LeCocq MR, Lahlou S, Chahine M, Padillo LN, Chaudhri N (2018) Modeling relapse to Pavlovian alcohol-seeking in rats using reinstatement and spontaneous recovery paradigms. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 42:1795-1806. [PubMed] [DOI]

Cofresi RU, Lee HJ, Monfils MH, Chaudhri N, Gonzales RA (2018) Characterizing conditioned reactivity to sequential alcohol-predictive cues in well-trained rats. Alcohol 69:41-49. [PubMed] [DOI]

Willadsen M, Best LM, Wohr M, Clarke PBS (2018) Effects of anxiogenic drugs on the emission of 22- and 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in adult rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 235:2435-2445. [PubMed] [DOI]

Lin YC, Zhao LL, Clarke PBS (2018) Effects of acute morphine withdrawal on ultrasonic vocalizations in adult rats: unchanged 50-kHz call rate and altered subtype profile. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 235:1945-1953. [PubMed] [DOI]

Wright JM, Ren S, Constantin A, Clarke PBS (2018) Enhancement of a visual reinforcer by D-amphetamine and nicotine in adult rats: relation to habituation and food restriction. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 235:803-814. [PubMed] [DOI]

Constantin A, Clarke PBS (2018) Reinforcement enhancement by nicotine in adult rats: behavioral selectivity and relation to mode of delivery and blood nicotine levels. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 235:641-650. [PubMed] [DOI]

Courtemanche R, Lévesque M (2018) In vivo recordings of network activity using local field potentials and single units in movement and network pathophysiology. In: Sillitoe R. (eds) Extracellular Recording Approaches. Neuromethods, vol 134. Humana Press, New York, NY, pp. 249-266. [DOI]

Desjardins ME, Baril AA, Soucy JP, Dang-Vu TT, Desautels A, Petit D, Montplaisir J, Zadra A (2018) Altered brain perfusion patterns in wakefulness and slow-wave sleep in sleepwalkers. Sleep 41:5. [PubMed] [DOI]

Chouchou F, Dang-Vu TT, Rainville P, Lavigne G (2018) The role of sleep in learning placebo effects. Int Rev Neurobiol 139:321-355. [PubMed] [DOI]

Gregoire CA, Tobin S, Goldenstein BL, Samarut E, Leclerc A, Aumont A, Drapeau P, Fulton S, Fernandes KJL (2018) RNA-sequencing reveals unique transcriptional signatures of running and running-independent environmental enrichment in the adult mouse dentate gyrus. Front Mol Neurosci 11:126. [PubMed] [DOI]

Decarie-Spain L, Sharma S, Hryhorczuk C, Issa-Garcia V, Barker PA, Arbour N, Alquier T, Fulton S (2018) Nucleus accumbens inflammation mediates anxiodepressive behavior and compulsive sucrose seeking elicited by saturated dietary fat. Mol Metab 10:1-13. [PubMed] [DOI]

Auguste S, Sharma S, Fisette A, Fernandes MF, Daneault C, Des Rosiers C, Fulton S (2018) Perinatal deficiency in dietary omega-3 fatty acids potentiates sucrose reward and diet-induced obesity in mice. Int J Dev Neurosci 64:8-13. [PubMed] [DOI]

Hryhorczuk C, Sheng Z, Decarie-Spain L, Giguere N, Ducrot C, Trudeau LE, Routh VH, Alquier T, Fulton S (2018) Oleic acid in the ventral tegmental area inhibits feeding, food reward, and dopamine tone. Neuropsychopharmacology 43:607-616. [PubMed] [DOI]

Lay BPP, Nicolosi M, Usypchuk AA, Esber GR, Iordanova MD (2018) Dissociation of appetitive overexpectation and extinction in the infralimic cortex. Cereb Cortex. [PubMed] [DOI]

Iordanova MD (2018) Thought control with the dopamine transient. Learn Behav. [PubMed] [DOI]

Shakra MA, Leyton M, Moghnieh H, Pruessner J, Dagher A, Pihl R (2018) Neurobiological correlates and predictors of two distinct personality trait pathways to escalated alcohol use. EBioMedicine 27:86-93. [PubMed] [DOI]

Smart K, Cox SML, Nagano-Saito A, Rosa-Neto P, Leyton M, Benkelfat C (2018) Test-retest variability of [(11) C]ABP688 estimates of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 availability in humans. Synapse 72:e22041. [PubMed] [DOI]

Leyton M (2018) Are people with psychiatric disorders violent? J Psychiatry Neurosci 43:220-222. [PubMed] [PMC]

Vosberg DE, Zhang Y, Menegaux A, Chalupa A, Manitt C, Zehntner S, Eng C, DeDuck K, Allard D, Durand F, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Srour M, Joober R, Lepore F, Rouleau G, Theoret H, Bedell BJ, Flores C, Leyton M (2018) Mesocorticolimbic connectivity and volumetric alterations in DCC mutation carriers. J Neurosci 38:4655-4665. [PubMed] [DOI]

Lissemore JI, Sookman D, Gravel P, Berney A, Barsoum A, Diksic M, Nordahl TE, Pinard G, Sibon I, Cottraux J, Leyton M, Benkelfat C (2018) Brain serotonin synthesis capacity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: effects of cognitive behavioral therapy and sertraline. Transl Psychiatry 8:82. [PubMed] [DOI]

Holley A, Joulakian L, Wenzel K, Roorda S Jr, Gonzalez B, Sparks L, Pfaus JG (2018) Inhibition of lysine-specific demethylase enzyme disrupts sexually conditioned mate guarding in the female rat. Physiol Behav 196:78-83. [PubMed] [DOI]

Quintana GR, Guizar A, Rassi S, Pfaus JG (2018) First sexual experiences determine the development of conditioned ejaculatory preference in male rats. Learn Mem 25:522-532. [PubMed] [DOI]

Quintana GR, Jackson M, Nasr M, Pfaus JG (2018) Effect of CS preexposure on the conditioned ejaculatory preference of the male rat: behavioral analyses and neural correlates. Learn Mem 25:513-521. [PubMed] [DOI]

Coria-Avila GA, Cibrian-Llanderal T, Diaz-Estrada VX, Garcia LI, Toledo-Cardenas R, Pfaus JG, Manzo J (2018) Brain activation associated to olfactory conditioned same-sex partner preference in male rats. Horm Behav 99:50-56. [PubMed] [DOI]

Tuiten A, van Rooij K, Bloemers J, Eisenegger C, van Honk J, Kessels R, Kingsberg S, Derogatis LR, de Leede L, Gerritsen J, Koppeschaar HPF, Olivier B, Everaerd W, Frijlink HW, Hohle D, de Lange RPJ, Bocker KBE, Pfaus JG (2018) Efficacy and safety of on-demand use of 2 treatments designed for different etiologies of female sexual interest/arousal disorder: 3 randomized clinical trials. J Sex Med 15:201-216. [PubMed] [DOI]

Hyland L, Rosenbaum S, Edwards A, Palacios D, Graham MD, Pfaus JG, Woodside B, Abizaid A (2018) Central ghrelin receptor stimulation modulates sex motivation in male rats in a site dependent manner. Horm Behav 97:56-66. [PubMed] [DOI]

Tuiten A, Michiels F, Bocker KB, Hohle D, van Honk J, de Lange RP, van Rooij K, Kessels R, Bloemers J, Gerritsen J, Janssen P, de Leede L, Meyer JJ, Everaerd W, Frijlink HW, Koppeschaar HP, Olivier B, Pfaus JG (2018) Genotype scores predict drug efficacy in subtypes of female sexual interest/arousal disorder: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled cross-over trial. Womens Health (Lond) 14:1745506518788970. [PubMed] [DOI]

Dai JB, Chen Y, Sakata JT (2018) EGR-1 Expression in catecholamine-synthesizing neurons reflects auditory learning and correlates with responses in auditory processing areas. Neuroscience 379:415-427. [PubMed] [DOI]

James LS, Dai JB, Sakata JT (2018) Ability to modulate birdsong across social contexts develops without imitative social learning. Biol Lett 14. [PubMed] [DOI]

Anyan J, Verwey M, Amir S (2017) Individual differences in circadian locomotor parameters correlate with anxiety- and depression-like behavior. PLoS One 12:e0181375. [PubMed] [Content]

Gavrila AM, Hood S, Robinson B, Amir S (2017) Effects of bilateral anterior agranular insula lesions on food anticipatory activity in rats. PLoS One 12:e0179370. [PubMed] [Content]

Hood S, Amir S (2017) Neurodegeneration and the circadian clock. Front Aging Neurosci 9:170. [PubMed] [Content]

Frederick A, Goldsmith J, de Zavalia N, Amir S (2017) Mapping the co-localization of the circadian proteins PER2 and BMAL1 with enkephalin and substance P throughout the rodent forebrain. PLoS One 12:e0176279. [PubMed] [Content]

Opiol H, de Zavalia N, Delorme T, Solis P, Rutherford S, Shalev U, Amir S (2017) Exploring the role of locomotor sensitization in the circadian food entrainment pathway. PLoS One 12:e0174113. [PubMed] [Content]

Hood S, Amir S (2017) The aging clock: circadian rhythms and later life. J Clin Invest 127:437-446. [PubMed] [Content]

Abbas Z, Sweet A, Hernandez G, Arvanitogiannis A (2017) Adolescent exposure to methylphenidate increases impulsive choice later in life. Front Behav Neurosci 11:214. [PubMed] [Content]

Pena CJ, Kronman HG, Walker DM, Cates HM, Bagot RC, Purushothaman I, Issler O, Loh YE, Leong T, Kiraly DD, Goodman E, Neve RL, Shen L, Nestler EJ (2017) Early life stress confers lifelong stress susceptibility in mice via ventral tegmental area OTX2. Science 356:1185-1188. [PubMed] [Content]

Walsh RM, Shen EY, Bagot RC, Anselmo A, Jiang Y, Javidfar B, Wojtkiewicz GJ, Cloutier J, Chen JW, Sadreyev R, Nestler EJ, Akbarian S, Hochedlinger K (2017) Phf8 loss confers resistance to depression-like and anxiety-like behaviors in mice. Nat Commun 8:15142. [PubMed] [Content]

Torres-Berrio A, Lopez JP, Bagot RC, Nouel D, Dal Bo G, Cuesta S, Zhu L, Manitt C, Eng C, Cooper HM, Storch KF, Turecki G, Nestler EJ, Flores C (2017) DCC confers susceptibility to depression-like behaviors in humans and mice and is regulated by miR-218. Biol Psychiatry 81:306-315. [PubMed] [Content]

Bagot RC, Cates HM, Purushothaman I, Vialou V, Heller EA, Yieh L, LaBonte B, Pena CJ, Shen L, Wittenberg GM, Nestler EJ (2017) Ketamine and imipramine reverse transcriptional signatures of susceptibility and induce resilience-specific gene expression profiles. Biol Psychiatry 81:285-295. [PubMed] [Content]

Almey A, Arena L, Oliel J, Shams WM, Hafez N, Mancinelli C, Henning L, Tsanev A, Brake WG (2017) Interactions between estradiol and haloperidol on perseveration and reversal learning in amphetamine-sensitized female rats. Horm Behav 89:113-120. [PubMed] [Content]

Robinson JC, Chapman CA, Courtemanche R (2017) Gap junction modulation of low-frequency oscillations in the cerebellar granule cell layer. Cerebellum 16:802-811. [PubMed] [Content]

Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N (2017) Alcohol-seeking and relapse: a focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning. Behav Processes 141:26-32. [PubMed] [Content]

Lacroix F, Pettorelli A, Maddux JN, Heidari-Jam A, Chaudhri N (2017) Varenicline reduces context-induced relapse to alcohol-seeking through actions in the nucleus accumbens. Neuropsychopharmacology 42:1037-1048. [PubMed] [Content]

Cofresi RU, Lewis SM, Chaudhri N, Lee HJ, Monfils MH, Gonzales RA (2017) Postretrieval extinction attenuates alcohol cue reactivity in rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 41:608-617. [PubMed] [Content]

Maddux JN, Chaudhri N (2017) Nicotine-induced enhancement of Pavlovian alcohol-seeking behavior in rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 234:727-738. [PubMed] [Content]

Jones-Tabah J, Clarke PB, Hebert TE (2017) Measuring G protein-coupled receptor signalling in the brain with resonance energy transfer based biosensors. Curr Opin Pharmacol 32:44-48. [PubMed] [Content]

Best LM, Zhao LL, Scardochio T, Clarke PB (2017) Effects of repeated morphine on ultrasonic vocalizations in adult rats: increased 50-kHz call rate and altered subtype profile. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 234:155-165. [PubMed] [Content]

Chadnova E, St-Onge N, Courtemanche R, Kilgour RD (2017) Kinematics and muscle activation patterns during a maximal voluntary rate activity in healthy elderly and young adults. Aging Clin Exp Res 29:1001-1011. [PubMed] [Content]

Dang-Vu TT, Hatch B, Salimi A, Mograss M, Boucetta S, O'Byrne J, Brandewinder M, Berthomier C, Gouin JP (2017) Sleep spindles may predict response to cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia. Sleep Med 39:54-61. [PubMed] [Content]

Boucetta S, Montplaisir J, Zadra A, Lachapelle F, Soucy JP, Gravel P, Dang-Vu TT (2017) Altered regional cerebral blood flow in idiopathic hypersomnia. Sleep 40:10. [PubMed] [Content]

Waters F, Moretto U, Dang-Vu TT (2017) Psychiatric illness and parasomnias: a systematic review. Curr Psychiatry Rep 19:37. [PubMed] [Content]

MacNeil S, Deschenes SS, Caldwell W, Brouillard M, Dang-Vu TT, Gouin JP (2017) High-frequency heart rate variability reactivity and trait worry interact to predict the development of sleep disturbances in response to a naturalistic stressor. Ann Behav Med 51:912-924. [PubMed] [Content]

Smith D, Schabus M, Dang-Vu TT (2017) Sleep: implications for theories of dreaming and consciousness. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, ISBN 9780128093245. [DOI]

Hryhorczuk C, Decarie-Spain L, Sharma S, Daneault C, Rosiers CD, Alquier T, Fulton S (2017) Saturated high-fat feeding independent of obesity alters hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis function but not anxiety-like behaviour. Psychoneuroendocrinology 83:142-149. [PubMed] [Content]

Nagano-Saito A, Lissemore JI, Gravel P, Leyton M, Carbonell F, Benkelfat C (2017) Posterior dopamine D2/3 receptors and brain network functional connectivity. Synapse 71:e21993. [PubMed] [Content]

Cawley E, Tippler M, Coupland NJ, Benkelfat C, Boivin DB, Aan Het Rot M, Leyton M (2017) Dopamine and light: effects on facial emotion recognition. J Psychopharmacol 31:1225-1233. [PubMed] [Content]

Cherkasova MV, Faridi N, Casey KF, Larcher K, O'Driscoll GA, Hechtman L, Joober R, Baker GB, Palmer J, Evans AC, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Leyton M (2017) Differential associations between cortical thickness and striatal dopamine in treatment-naive adults with ADHD vs. healthy controls. Front Hum Neurosci 11:421. [PubMed] [Content]

Leyton M, Kennedy SH (2017) Neuroimaging tests for clinical psychiatry: Are we there yet? J Psychiatry Neurosci 42:219-221. [PubMed] [Content]

Cox SML, Yau Y, Larcher K, Durand F, Kolivakis T, Delaney JS, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Leyton M (2017) Cocaine cue-induced dopamine release in recreational cocaine users. Sci Rep 7:46665. [PubMed] [Content]

Jaworska N, Cox SM, Casey KF, Boileau I, Cherkasova M, Larcher K, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Leyton M (2017) Is there a relation between novelty seeking, striatal dopamine release and frontal cortical thickness? PLoS One 12:e0174219. [PubMed] [Content]

Prause N, Janssen E, Georgiadis J, Finn P, Pfaus J (2017) Data do not support sex as addictive. Lancet Psychiatry 4:899. [PubMed] [Content]

Pfaus JG, Goldstein I (2017) Does gender matter? The prostate: male, female or both? Sex Med Rev 5:253-255. [PubMed] [Content]

Jones SL, Ismail N, Pfaus JG (2017) Facilitation of sexual behavior in ovariectomized rats by estradiol and testosterone: A preclinical model of androgen effects on female sexual desire. Psychoneuroendocrinology 79:122-133. [PubMed] [Content]

Pfaus JG (2017) Persistent genital arousal disorder - fact or fiction? J Sex Med 14:318-319. [PubMed] [Content]

Goldstein I, Kim NN, Clayton AH, DeRogatis LR, Giraldi A, Parish SJ, Pfaus J, Simon JA, Kingsberg SA, Meston C, Stahl SM, Wallen K, Worsley R (2017) Hypoactive sexual desire disorder: International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH) Expert Consensus Panel Review. Mayo Clin Proc 92:114-128. [PubMed] [Content]

Servonnet A, Minogianis EA, Bouchard C, Bedard AM, Levesque D, Rompre PP, Samaha AN (2017) Neurotensin in the nucleus accumbens reverses dopamine supersensitivity evoked by antipsychotic treatment. Neuropharmacology 123:10-21. [PubMed] [Content]

Riad M, Kobert A, Descarries L, Boye S, Rompre PP, Lacaille JC (2017) Chronic fluoxetine rescues changes in plasma membrane density of 5-HT1A autoreceptors and serotonin transporters in the olfactory bulbectomy rodent model of depression. Neuroscience 356:78-88. [PubMed] [Content]

Voyer D, Levesque D, Rompre PP (2017) Repeated ventral midbrain neurotensin injections sensitize to amphetamine-induced locomotion and ERK activation: A role for NMDA receptors. Neuropharmacology 112:150-163. [PubMed] [Content]

James LS, Sakata JT (2017) Learning biases underlie "universals" in avian vocal sequencing. Curr Biol 27:3676-3682.e4. [PubMed] [Content]

Murphy K, James LS, Sakata JT, Prather JF (2017) Advantages of comparative studies in songbirds to understand the neural basis of sensorimotor integration. J Neurophysiol 118:800-816. [PubMed] [Content]

Gallant S, Welch L, Martone P, Shalev U (2017) Effects of chronic prenatal MK-801 treatment on object recognition, cognitive flexibility, and drug-induced locomotor activity in juvenile and adult rat offspring. Behav Brain Res 328:62-69. [PubMed] [Content]

D'Cunha TM, Daoud E, Rizzo D, Bishop AB, Russo M, Mourra G, Hamel L, Sedki F, Shalev U (2017) Augmentation of heroin seeking following chronic food restriction in the rat: differential role for dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens shell and core. Neuropsychopharmacology 42:1136-1145. [PubMed] [Content]

Frenk H, Martin J, Vitouchanskaia C, Dar R, Shalev U (2017) Effects of contingent and noncontingent nicotine on lever pressing for liquids and consumption in water-deprived rats. Eur J Pharmacol 794:224-233. [PubMed] [Content]

Mahmud A, Gallant S, Sedki F, D'Cunha T, Shalev U (2017) Effects of an acute cannabidiol treatment on cocaine self-administration and cue-induced cocaine seeking in male rats. J Psychopharmacol 31:96-104. [PubMed] [Content]

Solomon RB, Conover K, Shizgal P (2017) Valuation of opportunity costs by rats working for rewarding electrical brain stimulation. PLoS One 12:e0182120. [PubMed] [Content]

Verwey M, Dhir S, Amir S (2016) Circadian influences on dopamine circuits of the brain: regulation of striatal rhythms of clock gene expression and implications for psychopathology and disease. F1000Res 5:2062. [PubMed] [Content]

Verwey M, Amir S (2016) From genes to chronotypes: the influence of circadian clock genes on our daily patterns of sleep and wakefulness. Ann Transl Med 4:184. [PubMed] [Content]

Hryhorczuk C, Florea M, Rodaros D, Poirier I, Daneault C, Des Rosiers C, Arvanitogiannis A, Alquier T, Fulton S (2016) Dampened mesolimbic dopamine function and signaling by saturated but not monounsaturated dietary lipids. Neuropsychopharmacology 41:811-821. [Pubmed] [Content]

Gervais NJ, Hamel LM, Brake WG, Mumby DG (2016) Intra-perirhinal cortex administration of estradiol, but not an ERβ agonist, modulates object-recognition memory in ovariectomized rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 133:89-99. [PubMed] [Content]

Shams WM, Sanio C, Quinlan MG, Brake WG (2016) 17β-estradiol infusions into the dorsal striatum rapidly increase dorsal striatal dopamine release in vivo. Neuroscience 330:162-170. [PubMed] [Content]

Hussain D, Hanafi S, Konishi K, Brake WG, Bohbot VD (2016) Modulation of spatial and response strategies by phase of the menstrual cycle in women tested in a virtual navigation task. Psychoneuroendocrinology 70:108-117. [PubMed] [Content]

Madularu D, Kulkarni P, Yee JR, Kenkel WM, Shams WM, Ferris CF, Brake WG (2016) High estrogen and chronic haloperidol lead to greater amphetamine-induced BOLD activation in awake, amphetamine-sensitized female rats. Horm Behav 82:56-63. [PubMed] [Content]

Almey A, Milner TA, Brake WG (2016) Estrogen receptor α and G-protein coupled estrogen receptor 1 are localized to GABAergic neurons in the dorsal striatum. Neurosci Lett 622:118-123. [PubMed] [Content]

Hussain D, Cossette MP, Brake WG (2016) High oestradiol replacement reverses response memory bias in ovariectomised female rats regardless of dopamine levels in the dorsal striatum. J Neuroendocrinol 28(5). [PubMed] [Content]

Quiroz C, Orru M, Rea W, Ciudad-Roberts A, Yepes G, Britt JP, Ferre S (2016) Local control of extracellular dopamine levels in the medial nucleus accumbens by a glutamatergic projection from the infralimbic cortex. J Neurosci 36:851-859. [PubMed] [Content]

Sparks DW, Chapman CA (2016) Heterosynaptic modulation of evoked synaptic potentials in layer II of the entorhinal cortex by activation of the parasubiculum. J Neurophysiol 116:658-670. [PubMed] [Content]

Plourde G, Reed SJ, Chapman CA (2016) Attenuation of high-frequency (50-200 Hz) thalamocortical electroencephalographic rhythms by isoflurane in rats is more pronounced for the thalamus than for the cortex. Anesth Analg 122:1818-1825. [PubMed] [Content]

Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N (2016) Individual differences in the attribution of incentive salience to a Pavlovian alcohol cue. Front Behav Neurosci 10:238. [PubMed] [Content]

Tabbara RI, Maddux JM, Beharry PF, Iannuzzi J, Chaudhri N (2016) Effects of sucrose concentration and water deprivation on Pavlovian conditioning and responding for conditioned reinforcement. Behav Neurosci 130:231-242. [PubMed] [Content]

Chadnova E, St-Onge N, Courtemanche R, Kilgour RD (2016) Kinematics and muscle activation patterns during a maximal voluntary rate activity in healthy elderly and young adults. Aging Clin Exp Res 18:381-399. [PubMed] [Content]

Albouy G, King BR, Schmidt C, Desseilles M, Dang-Vu TT, Balteau E, Phillips C, Degueldre C, Orban P, Benali H, Peigneux P, Luxen A, Karni A, Doyon J, Maquet P, Korman M (2016) Cerebral activity associated with transient sleep-facilitated reduction in motor memory vulnerability to interference. Sci Rep 6:34948. [PubMed] [Content]

Waters F, Blom JD, Dang-Vu TT, Cheyne AJ, Alderson-Day B, Woodruff P, Collerton D (2016) What is the link between hallucinations, dreams, and hypnagogic-hypnopompic experiences? Schizophr Bull 42:1098-1109. [PubMed] [Content]

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