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2008 Publications

Original Research:

Luo, A., Georges, F. and Aston-Jones, G., Novel neurons in ventral tegmental area fire selectively during the dark phase in nocturnal rats. Europ. J. Neurosci. 27: 408-422 (2008).

Gompf, H. and Aston-Jones, G., Role of orexin input in the diurnal rhythm of locus coeruleus impulse activity Brain Res. 1224: 43-52 (2008).

Hearing MC, Miller SW, See RE, McGinty JF. 2008. Relapse to cocaine seeking increases activity-regulated gene expression differentially in the prefrontal cortex of abstinent rats. Psychopharmacology 198:77-91.

Hearing MC, See RE, McGinty JF. 2008. Relapse to cocaine seeking increases activity-regulated gene expression differentially in the striatum of abstinent rats. Brain Structure & Function 213:215-227.

McGinty JF, Matthew C. Hearing MC, Terri L. Schochet TL, William J. Berglind WJ, Saurin D. Jani SD. Activity and dendritic plasticity-related genes are altered in the medial prefrontal cortex after brief or prolonged withdrawal from cocaine self-administration (in press).

Rogers JL, Ghee S, See RE (2008) The neural circuitry underlying reinstatement of heroin-seeking behavior in an animal model of relapse. Neuroscience 151(2):579-588.

Bongiovanni M, See RE (2008) A comparison of the effects of different operant training experiences and dietary restriction on the reinstatement of cocaine-seeking in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 89(2): 227-233.

Samuvel DJ, Jayanthi LD, Manohar S, Kaliyaperumal K, See RE, Ramamoorthy S (2008) Dysregulation of dopamine transporter trafficking and function following prolonged abstinence from cocaine self-administration in rats: Evidence for differential regulation in caudate-putamen and nucleus accumbens. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 325(1):293-301.

Zhou W and PW Kalivas. 2008. N-acetylcysteine facilitates extinction and induces enduring reductions in cue- and heroin-induced drug-seeking. Biol Psychiat, 63: 338-340.

Kalivas PW and O’Brien C. 2008. Addiction as a disease of staged neuroplasticity. Neuropsychopharm Rev, 33:166-180.

Thomas MJ, PW Kalivas, Y Shaham. 2008. Neuroplasticity in the mesolimbic dopamine system and cocaine addiction. Brit J Pharmacol, 154: 327-342.

Torregrossa MM and PW Kalivas. 2008. Neurotensin in the ventral pallidum increases extracellular GABA and differentially affects cue- and cocaine-primed reinstatement. J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 325: 556-566.

Kalivas PW. 2008. Addiction as a pathology in prefrontal cortical regulation of corticostriatal habit circuitry. Neurotox Res, in press.

LaLumiere RT and PW Kalivas. 2008. Glutamate release in the nucleus accumbens core is necessary for heroin-seeking. J Neuroscience, 28:3170-3177.

Peters J, R LaLumiere and PW Kalivas. 2008. Activity in infralimbic cortex suppresses cocaine relapse. J Neuroscience, 28: 6046-6053.

Shen H, S Sesack, S Toda and PW Kalivas. 2008. Automated quantification of dendritic spine density and spine head diameter in medium spiny neurons. Br Struct Func, in press.

Reviews of the Literature:

Feltenstein MW, See RE (2008) The neurocircuitry of addiction: An overview. British Journal of Pharmacology 154(2):261-274.

McGinty, JF, Shi XD, Schwendt M, Saylor A, Toda S. Regulation of psychostimulant-induced signaling and gene expression in the striatum. J Neurochem 104:1440-9, 2008.

Smith, R. J. and Aston-Jones, G., Noradrenergic transmission in the extended amygdala: Role in increased drug-seeking and relapse during protracted drug abstinence. Brain Struc. Func. 213: 43-61 (2008).

Aston-Jones, G., Smith, R.J., Moorman, D. and Richardson, K., Role of lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward processing and addiction, Neuropharmacology (2008) doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2008.06.060.

Kalivas PW and H Manji. 2008. Neuroplasticity in neuropsychiatric disease. Neuropsychopharm Rev (Editorial), 33: 2.

Lawrence A, P Beart and PW Kalivas. 2008. Neuropharmacology of addiction: Setting the scene. Brit J Pharmacol (Commentary), 154: 259-260.

Aston-Jones, G and PW Kalivas. 2008. Brain norepinephrine rediscovered in addiction research. Biol Psychiat (Commentary), 11: 1005-1006.

Carr, D and PW Kalivas. 2008. Confused about NMDA and addiction? Targeted knockouts provide answers and new questions. Neuron (Preview), 59: 353-355.

Chapters in Books and Editorials:

Aston-Jones, G. and Kalivas, P., Brain norepinephrine rediscovered in addiction research. Biol. Psychiatr. 63: 1005- 1006 (2008).

See RE, Kalivas PW (2008) Neuroscience of substance abuse and dependence. In: Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry(Eds. Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz P), 9th edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; in press.

Melendez, R and PW Kalivas. 2008. Basic science of addiction. In, Pain and Chemical Dependency, Eds, H Smith and S Passik, Oxford Univ Press, pg 31-38.

Torregrossa MM and PW Kalivas. 2008. Addictive processes. In, Handbook of Neuroscience for Behavioral Scientists, Eds Gary G Berntson and John T Cacioppo, John Wiley and Sons, NY, in press

Olive MF and PW Kalivas (2008) Conditioning in addiction. In: Addictive Disorders and Substance Abuse, Ed BA Johnson, Springer, New York, in press