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Synchrony between midbrain gene transcription and dopamine terminal regulation is modulated by chronic alcohol drinking
Farahbakhsh ZZ, Holleran KM, Sens JP, Fordahl SC, Mauterer MI, López AJ, Carlson VCC, Kiraly DD, Grant KA, Jones SR, Siciliano CA (2024). Preprint on bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.15.584711
Medial prefrontal dopamine dynamics reflect allocation of selective attention
Melugin PR, Nolan SO, Kandov E, Ferrara CF, Farahbakhsh ZZ, Siciliano CA (2024). Preprint on bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.04.583245
Recurrent activity within microcircuits of macaque dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tracks cognitive flexibility
Nolan SO, Melugin PR, Erickson KR, Adams WR, Farahbakhsh ZZ, Mcgonigle CE, Kwon MH, Costa VD, Lapish CC, Hackett TA, Carlson VCC, Constantinidis C, Grant KA, Siciliano CA (2023). Preprint on bioRxiv, under review at Current Biology. doi: 10.1101/2023.09.23.559125
Reward contingency gates selective cholinergic suppression of amygdala neurons
Kimchi EY, Burgos-Robles A, Matthews GA, Chakoma T, Patarino M, Weddington JC, Siciliano CA, Yang W, Foutch S, Simons R, Fong MF, Jing M, Li Y, Polley DB, Tye KM (2024). eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89093.
Structured tracking of alcohol reinforcement (STAR) for basic and translational alcohol research
Brown AR, Branthwaite HE, Farahbakhsh ZZ, Mukerjee S, Melugin PR, Song K, Noamany H, and Siciliano CA (2023). Molecular Psychiatry. doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-01994-4
Systemic kappa opioid receptor antagonism accelerates reinforcement learning via augmentation of novelty processing in male mice
Farahbakhsh ZZ, Song K, Branthwaite HE, Erickson KR, Mukerjee S, Nolan SO, and Siciliano CA (2023). Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01547-x
Pavlovian-conditioned opioid tolerance
Farahbakhsh ZZ, Siciliano CA (2023). Science Advances. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6086
Practical opinions for new fiber photometry users to obtain rigorous recordings and avoid pitfalls
Mejaes J, Desai D, Siciliano CA, Barker DJ (2022). Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173488
Neurotensin orchestrates valence assignment in the amygdala
Li H, Namburi P, Olson JM, Borio M, Lemieux ME, Beyeler A, Calhoon GG, Hitora-Imamura N, Coley AA, Libster A, Bal A, Jin X, Wang H, Jia C, Choudhury SR, Shi X, Felix-Ortiz AC, de la Fuente V, Barth VP, King HO, Izadmehr EM, Revanna JS, Batra K, Fischer KB, Keyes LR, Padilla-Coreano N, Siciliano CA, McCullough KM, Wichmann R, Ressler KJ, Fiete IR, Zhang F, Li Y, Tye KM (2022). Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04964-y
Dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens core mediates latent inhibition
Kutlu MG, Zachry JE, Melugin PR, Tat J, Cajigas S, Isiktas AU, Patel DD, Siciliano CA, Schoenbaum G, Sharpe MJ, Calipari ES (2022). Nature Neuroscience. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01126-1
Effectiveness and relationship between biased and unbiased measures of dopamine release and clearance
Everett AC, Graul BE, Ronström JW, Robinson JK, Watts DB, España RA, Siciliano CA, Yorgason JT (2022). ACS Chemical Neuroscience. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00033
Acute restraint stress redirects prefrontal cortex circuit function through mGlu5 receptor plasticity on somatostatin-expressing interneurons
Joffe ME, Maksymetz J, Luschinger JR, Dogra S, Ferranti AS, Luessen DJ, Gallinger IM, Xiang Z, Branthwaite H, Melugin PR, Williford KM, Centanni SW, Shields BC, Lindsley CW, Calipari ES, Siciliano CA, Niswender CM, Tadross MR, Winder DG, Conn PJ (2022). Neuron. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.027
α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor modulation of accumbal dopamine release covaries with novelty seeking
Leach AC, Pitts EG, Siciliano CA, Ferris MJ (2022). European Journal of Neuroscience. doi: 110.1111/ejn.15620
Targeting diacylglycerol lipase reduces alcohol consumption in preclinical models
Winters ND, Bedse G, Astafyev, AA, Patrick TA, Altemus M, Morgan AJ, Mukerjee S, Johnson KD, Mahajan VT, Uddin MJ, Kingsley PJ, Centanni SW, Siciliano CA, Samuels DC, Marnett LJ, Winder DG, and Patel S (2021). The Journal of Clinical Investigation. doi: 131(17):e146861.
Alcohol and the brain: from genes to circuits
Egervari G, Siciliano CA, Whiteley EL, and Ron D (2021). Trends in Neurosciences. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2021.09.006
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core signals perceived saliency
Kutlu MG, Zachry JE, Melugin PR, Cajigas SA, Chevee MF, Kelly SJ, Kutlu B, Tian L, Siciliano CA, and Calipari ES (2021). Current Biology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.052
Regional and Sex Differences in Spontaneous Striatal Dopamine Transmission
Brundage JN, Mason CP, Wadsworth HA, Finuf CS, Nelson JJ, Ronström PJW, Jones SR, Siciliano CA, Steffensen SC, Yorgason JT (2021). Journal of Neurochemistry. doi: 10.1111/JNC.15473
Neurobiology of Novelty Seeking
Farahbakhsh ZZ & Siciliano CA (2021). Science, 372(6543), 684-685. doi: 10.1126/science.abi7270
Toward Standardized Guidelines for Investigating Neural Circuit Control of Behavior in Animal Research
Lewis AS, Calipari ES, Siciliano CA (2021). eNeuro. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0498-20.2021. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33782101.
Sex differences in dopamine release regulation in the striatum
Zachry JE, Nolan SO, Brady LJ, Kelly SJ, Siciliano CA, Calipari ES (2021). Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(3), 491–499. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-00915-1