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Leathers, M. L. and C. R. Olson. Response to comment on “In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value”.

Science, 340(6131): 430, 2013

Winters, D.B., Kruger, J.M., Huang, X., Gallaher, Z.R., Ishikawa, M., Czaja, K., Krueger, J.M., Huang, Y.H., Schluter, O.M., Dong, Y. CB1-expressing neurons in the nucleus accumbens

PNAS USA 109(40): E2717-2725 (2012)

Suska, A., Lee, B.R., Huang, Y.H., Dong, Y., Schluter, O.M. Presynaptic enhancement of glutamatergic transmission within the nucleus accumbens following cocaine exposure

PNAS USA 110(2):713-718 (2013)

Otaka, M., Ishikawa, M., Lee, B.R., Liu, L., Neumann, P.A., Cui, R., Huang, Y.H., Schluter, O.M., Dong, Y. Exposure to cocaine regulates inhibitory synaptic transmission in the nucleus accumbens

Journal of Neuroscience. Featured Article. 33(16): 6753-6758

Ishikawa, M., Otaka, M., Huang, Y.H., Neumann, P.A., Winters, B.D., Grace, A.A., Schluter, O.M., Dong, Y. Dopamine triggers heterosynaptic plasticity

Journal of Neuroscience. 33(16): 6759-6765

Card, J.P., Kobiler, O., McCambridge, J., Ebdlahad, S., Raizada, M.K., Sved, A.F., Enquist, L.W. Microdissection of neural networks by conditional reporter expression from a Brainbow Herpesvirus

PNAS USA 108: 3377-3382, (2011)

This manuscript reports upon the development of novel technology for defining neural circuits linked to neurochemically defined populations of neurons.

Card, J.P., Kobiler, O., Ludmir, E.B., Desai, V., Sved, A.F., Enquist, L.W. A dual infection pseudorabies virus conditional reporter approach to identify projections to collateralized neurons in complex neural circuits

PLOS One 6:1-12,2011.

This manuscript reports the development of novel technology to define populations of neurons that are synaptically linked to circuits linked to separate targets

Agassandia, K., Shan, Z., Raizada, M., Sved, A.F., Card, J.P. C1 Catecholamine neurons form local circuit connections within the rostroventrolateral medulla of rat

Neuroscience 227:247-259, 2012

This paper provides support for the hypothesis that local circuit connections among projection specific populations of neurons in the rat brainstem coordinate activity within a distributed neural network that controls cardiovascular function.

Tarr, T.B., Dittrich, M., Meriney, S.D. Are unreliable release mechanisms conserved from NMJ to CNS?

Trends in Neuroscience 36 14-22

Tarr, T.B., Valdomir, G., Liang, M., Wipf, P., Meriney, S.D. New calcium channel agonists as potential therapeutics in LEMS and other neuromuscular diseases.

Annals New York Academy of Sciences, (2012) 1275: 85-91

Cai, L., Bakalli, H., and Rinaman, L. Yohimbine anxiogenesis in the elevated plus maze is disrupted by bilaterally disconnecting the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis from the central nucleus of the amygdala.

Neuroscience, 223 (2012) 200-208.

The anxiogeneic effects of increased noradrenergic signaling in rats require direct CEA-algBST interactions that do not alter anxiety-like behavior under baseline conditions

Bienkowski, M. and Rinaman, L. Common and distinct neural inputs to the medial central nucleus of the amygdala and the anterior ventrolateral bed nucleus of stria terminalis in rats.

Brain Structure and Function 218 (2013) 187-208.

Neural tract tracing demonstrates similarities and differences in inputs to CEAm and BSTvl that provide new anatomical insights into the functional organization of these limbic forebrain regions

Zheng H. and Rinaman, L. Yohimbine anxiogenesis in the elevated plus maze requires hindbrain noradrenergic neurons that target the anterior ventrolateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

European Journal of Neuroscience (2013) In press. doi: 10.1111/ejn.12123 [Epub ahead of print]

The anxiogenic effects of increased neurodrenergic signaling in rats are mediated by inputs from hindbrain noradrenergic neurons, and not by inputs from the pntine locus coeruleus.

Maniscalco, J.W. and Rinaman, L. Overnight food deprivation markedly attenuates hindbrain noradrenergic, glucagon-like peptide-1, and hypothalamic neural responses to exogenous cholecystokinin in rats.

Physiology & Behavior (2013) In press.

Activation of neurodrenergic A2, GLP-1, and medial parvocellular PVN neurons is significantly modulated by feeding status in rats, suggesting a mechanism through which food intake and metabolic state might impact hypothalamic neuroendocrine responses to homeostatic challenge.

Maniscalco, J.W., Kreisler, A.D., and Rinaman, L. Satiation and stress-induced hypophagia: examining the role of hindbrain neurons expressing prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP) or glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1).

Frontiers in Neuroscience 6 (2013) 199. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00199

Hindbrain PrRP and GLP-1 neurons engage hypothalamic and limbic forebrain networks that drive parallel behavioral and endocrine functions related to food intake and homeostatic challenge, and modulate conditioned and motivational aspects of food intake.

Leathers, ML and Olson CR. In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value.

Science, 338(6103): 132-35, 2012.

Card, JP, Kobiler O, Ludmir, EB, Desai, V, Sved AF, Enquist, LW., A Dual Infection Pseudorabies Virus Conditional Reporter Approach to Identify Projections to Collateralized Neurons in Complex Neural Circuits., PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e21141. Epub 2011 Jun 16.