Regina M. Carelli, Ph.D.
Stephen B. Baxter Distinguished Professor & Director of Behavioral Neuroscience Program

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UNC-CH
Department of Psychology
Davie Hall CB 3270
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270

Phone: 919-962-8775
Fax: 919-962-2537
e-Mail: rcarelli@unc.edu

Recent Publications

Cheer JF, Heien MLAV, Garris PA, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2005) Simultaneous dopamine and single-unit recordings reveal accumbens GABAergic responses: Implications for intracranial self-stimulation.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(52):19150-19155.

Hollander JA, Carelli RM (2007) Cocaine-associated stimuli increase cocaine-seeking and activate accumbens core neurons following abstinence. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(13):3535-3539.

Cheer JF, Aragona BJ, Heien MLAV, Seipel AT, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2007) Coordinated accumbal dopamine release and neural activity drive goal-directed behavior. Neuron, 54(2):237-244.

Day JJ, Roitman MF, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2007) Associative learning mediates dynamic shifts in dopamine signaling within the nucleus accumbens. Nature Neuroscience, 10(8):1020-1028.

Wheeler RA, Twining RC, Jones JJ, Slater JM, Grigson PS, Carelli RM (2008) Behavioral and electrophysiological indices of negative affect predict cocaine self-administration, Neuron, 57, 774–785.
 
Owesson-White CA, Cheer JF, Beyene M, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2008) Dynamic changes in accumbens dopamine linked to learning of intra-cranial self-stimulation.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(33):11957-62.

Chen BT, Bowers MS, Martin M, Woodward Hopf F, Guillory AM, Chou JK, Carelli RM, Bonci A (2008) Cocaine but not natural reward self-administration nor passive cocaine injection produces persistent LTP in the VTA. Neuron, 59(2):288-97.

Robinson DL, Carelli RM (2008) Distinct subsets of nucleus accumbens neurons encode operant responding for ethanol versus water. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 28(9):1887-1894.

Roitman MF, Wheeler RA, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2008) Real-time chemical responses in the nucleus accumbens differentiate rewarding and aversive stimuli. Nature Neuroscience, 11(12):1376-1377.

Wheeler RA, Carelli RM (2009) Dissecting motivational circuitry to understand substance abuse. Neuropharmacology. 56 Suppl 1:149-59.

Sombers L, Beyene M, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2009) Synaptic overflow of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens arises from neuronal activity in the ventral tegmental area.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(6):1735-42.

Jones JL, Day JJ, Aragona BJ, Wheeler RA, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2009) Basolateral amygdala modulates terminal dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and conditioned responding. Biological Psychiatry, 67(8):737-44.

Day JJ, Jones JL, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2010) Phasic nucleus accumbens dopamine release encodes reward cost during effort-related decision making. Biological Psychiatry, 68(3):306-309.

Keithley RB, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2010) Factor selection is critical in the analysis of in vivo fast-scan cyclic voltammetric data. Analytical Chemistry, 82(13):5541-51.

Beyene M, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2010) Cue-evoked dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens tracks reinforcer magnitude during intracranial self-stimulation. Neuroscience, 169(4):1682-8.

Roitman MF, Wheeler RA, Tiesinga THE, Roitman JD, Carelli RM (2010) Hedonic and nucleus accumbens neural responses to a natural reward are regulated by aversive conditioning. Learning and Memory, 17(11):539-46.

Herr NR, Daniel KB, Belle A, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2010) Probing pre-synaptic regulation of dopamine release with iontophoresis. ACS Chem Neurosci., 1(9):627-638.

Day JJ, Jones JL, Carelli RM (2011) Nucleus accumbens neurons encode predicted and ongoing reward costs.  The European Journal of Neuroscience, 33(2):308-21.

Wheeler RA, Aragona BJ, Fuhrmann KA, Day JJ, Jones JJ, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2011) Cocaine cues drive opposing context-dependent shifts in reward processing and emotional state, Biological Psychiatry, 69(11):1067-74.

Saddoris, MP, Stamatakis A, Carelli RM (in press) Neural correlates of Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer in the nucleus accumbens shell are selectively potentiated following cocaine self-administration. The European Journal of Neuroscience.

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