Author name: Kristen Hartman

Akiyama T, Tominaga M, Davoodi A, Nagamine M, Takamori K, Carstens MI, Carstens E (2014) Spinal antinociceptive effect of gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) via GABAergic inhibitory interneurons expressing the GRP receptor (GRPR). Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 158.02. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: GRPR-expressing dorsal horn neurons signal itch. We investigated a role for such neurons […]

Borella TL, Takakura AC, Moreira TS (2014) C1 neurons excite A5 noradrenergic neurons during hypoxia condition. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 168.07. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: C1 neurons activate sympathetic tone and stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in circumstances such as pain, hypoxia or hypotension. They also innervate pontine noradrenergic cells group, including the locus coeruleus

Anderson ML, Nokia MS, Shors TJ (2014) The role of acetylcholine in learning: Cholinergic MSDB lesions retard trace eyeblink conditioning and decrease adult neurogenesis. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 177.10. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Decades ago, acetylcholine was considered intrinsic to processes related to attention and/or learning and memory. However, in the last decade or

Yegla B, Kelbaugh A, Mookhtiar A, Parikh V (2014) Prefrontal cholinergic overload and attentional capacities in aging. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 211.25. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The cognitive reserve hypothesis of aging posits that brain activity attempts to cope with functional age-related changes. Individuals with lower cognitive reserve are considered more susceptible to cognitive

Burk JA, Otoya D, Leong C, Ng A, Kozikowski CT (2014) Assessing removal of illumination as a signal: Effects of loss of basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic neurons. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 263.06. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: In the vast majority of experiments assessing visual attention in animal models, tasks are employed that require the

Kozikowski CT, Wolfe EL, Yanev PG, Burk JA (2014) Interactions between noncholinergic basal forebrain neurons and muscarinic receptors in attentional processing. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 263.16. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Numerous studies have provided evidence that basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic neurons are critical for normal attentional performance. However, the role of noncholinergic basal forebrain

Dinh TT, Huston N, Ritter S (2014) Lesions of hindbrain catecholaminergic projections to nucleus accumbens, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, lateral parabrachial nucleus or locus coeruleus do not impair glucoprivic feeding. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 256.05. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: We have shown previously that injection of the retrogradely transported immunotoxin, anti-dopamine beta-hydroxylase

Fu R, Chen X, Zho W, Li J, Ye J-H (2014) Selective ablation of mu opioid receptor expressing gaba neurons in the rostromedial tegmental nucleus promotes ethanol intake. Neuroscience 2014 Abstracts 267.30. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The cellular mechanisms underlying the aversive effect of ethanol that limits its intake are