Recent Publications

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. PMCID: PMC2575325.

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. PMCID: PMC3171188.

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. PMCID: PMC2673986.

Jones JL, Day JJ, Aragona BJ, Wheeler RA, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2010) Basolateral amygdala modulates terminal dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and conditioned responding. Biological Psychiatry, 67(8):737-44. PMCID: PMC2849914.

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. PMCID: PMC2907444.

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. PMCID: PMC2981416.

Saddoris, MP, Stamatakis A, Carelli RM (2011) Neural correlates of Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer in the nucleus accumbens shell are selectively potentiated following cocaine self-administration. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 33(12):2274-87. PMC Journal-In Process.
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. PMCID: PMC3090459

Cacciapaglia F, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2011) Rapid dopamine signaling differentially modulates distinct microcircuits within the nucleus accumbens during sucrose-directed behavior.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(39):13860-9. PMCID: PMC3197228.

Sugam JA, Day JJ, Wightman RM, Carelli RM (2012) Phasic nucleus accumbens dopamine encodes risk-based decision-making behavior. Biological Psychiatry. 71(3):199-205, PMC Journal - In Process.

Park J, Wheeler RA, Fontillas K, Keithley RB, Carelli RM, Wightman RM (2012) Catecholamines in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis reciprocally respond to reward and aversion. Biological Psychiatry. 71(4):327-34, PMC Journal - In Process.

Cameron CM, Carelli RM (2012) Cocaine abstinence alters nucleus accumbens cell firing dynamics during goal-directed behaviors for cocaine and sucrose.  The European Journal of Neuroscience. 35(6):940-51. PMC Journal - In Process.

Saddoris MP, Sugam JA, Cacciapaglia F, Carelli RM (in press) Rapid dopamine dynamics in the accumbens core and shell: Learning and action. Invited review, Frontiers in Bioscience.

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