Read our newest paper in Psychopharm, lead by graduate student Maricela Martinez! We found sex-dependent changes, and lack thereof, in cognition and dopamine systems after adolescent THC in rats. Martinez, M.X., Alizo Vera, V., Ruiz, C.M., Floresco, S.B., and Mahler, S.V. Adolescent THC impacts on mPFC dopamine-mediated cognitive processes in male and female rats. Psychopharmacology. Read More…
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New paper on sex differences in reward circuits after early life adversity!
Check out our newest paper lead by recent Mahler/Baram Ph.D. alumna Sophia Levis, focused on altered reward and stress circuitry in male rats after early life adversity. We find opposite effects from our previous studies in female rats, read this other half of the story in Translational Psychiatry! Levis, S.C., Birnie, M.T., Bolton, J.L. et al. Enduring Read More…
Our latest paper shows a bidirectional role of the Ventral Pallidum in opioid relapse
Our latest paper in Addiction Neuroscience lead by Mitch Farrell highlights the bidirectional control of VP GABA neurons in opioid relapse following voluntary abstinence or extinction. Mitchell R. Farrell, Qiying Ye, Yiyan Xie, Jeanine Sandra D. Esteban, Stephen V. Mahler,Ventral pallidum GABA neurons bidirectionally control opioid relapse across rat behavioral models,Addiction Neuroscience,Volume 3, 2022, 100026, Read More…