Former CCB Journal Club Committee
Andrew Kesner, Ph.D. 2020 – 2021
Zak Brodnik, Ph.D. 2020 – 2022
Valerie Darcey, Ph.D., M.S., R.D. 2020
Rosario Jaime-Lara, CRNP, Ph.D. 2021 – 2022
Julio Yanes, Ph.D. 2022
Yosuke Arima, Ph.D. 2021 – 2023
Tingting Liu, Ph.D. 2023 – 2025
Aijaz Naik, Ph.D. 2023 – 2025
Previous Presentations
2024
Kathryn Biernacki
NIDA
Disrupted brain state dynamics in opioid and alcohol use disorder: attenuation by nicotine use
Lee Peyton
NIAAA
Distinct signatures of calcium activity in brain mural cells.
Tingting Liu
NIDA
Language-based EMA assessments help understand problematic alcohol consumption
Zilu Ma
NIDA
Astrocytes modulate cerebral blood flow and neuronal response to cocaine in prefrontal cortex
Bharath Talluri
NEI
No Modulation of Early Visual Processing in Macaques by Spontaneous Movements
Mandy Renfro
NIMH
Computational Markers of Risky Decision-making for Identification of Temporal Windows of Vulnerability to Opioid Use in a Real-world Clinical Setting
Yili Zhao
NCCIH
Enhancing pain assessment accuracy: the impact of real-time feedback and target variability on interpreting facial expressions of pain
Kelsey Sundby
NINDS
Examining the Effect of Attention on Single-unit Spike Sequences in Humans During Memory Encoding
Ryan Lingg
NIMH
Area Prostriata Modulates Escape Behavior to Threat Arising From the Visual Periphery
Siyu Wang
NIMH
Attractor population dynamics in macaque prefrontal cortex during reinforcement learning
Ken Negishi
NIDA
Phosphorylation of pyruvate dehydrogenase inversely associates with neuronal activity
Pamela Miranda Tapia
NIDA
Effects of bariatric surgery on lateral hypothalamic neurons
Brett Hathaway
NIMH
Dopamine transients follow a striatal gradient of reward time horizons
Hye Young Ryu
NIMH
Absence seizures and sleep abnormalities in a rat model of GRIN2B neurodevelopmental disorder
Franco Giarrocco
NIMH
At the interface between motivation and action in the cortex and basal ganglia
2023
Brenton Laing
NIDA
Control and consequences of anterior hypothalamic area mediated escape
Adam Caccavano
NICHD
Recent studies in cell-type specificity of opioid modulation
Sudhuman Singh
NCCIH
Cells and circuits for pain modulation in the central amygdala
Thien Nguyen
NICHD
Autism is a prenatal disorder
Lorenzo Sansalone
NINDS
Unique connectivity of Substantia Nigra Pars Lateralis dopamine neurons
Ayland Letsinger
NIEHS
ChatGPT & Me: Language Models in Modern Research
Ying Duan
NIDA
Synaptic mechanism underlying serotonin modulation of transition to cocaine addiction
Geoffrey Vargish
NICHD
Hippocampal place codes are gated by behavioral engagement
Nicholas Beacher
NIDA
Tracking the evolution of motivation across efforts in the NAc using miniScopes and deep learning
Wen-Chieh Hsieh
NICHD
Presynaptic NMDA receptors facilitate short-term plasticity and BDNF release at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses
Marios Panayi
NIDA
anticipation of appetitive operant action induces sustained dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens
Tingting Liu
NIDA
A systematic review of virtual reality therapies for substance use disorders: Impact on secondary treatment
Josephin Wagner
NIAAA
PCSK9 inhibition attenuates alcohol-associated neuronal oxidative stress and neuroinflammation
Diana Burk
NIMH
A state-based value model predicts motivation during a reinforcement learning task with token reinforcement
Aijaz Naik
NIMH
Linking emotional Valence and Anxiety in a mouse insula-amygdala circuit
Katherine Savell
NIDA
Identifying the transcriptional signature of a cocaine relapse memory (& the path to get there)
2022
Brenton Laing
NIDA
The defining characteristic of substance use disorders
Julio Alejandro Yanes
NCCIH
Distinct Contributions of Ventromedial and Dorsolateral Subregions of the Human Substantia Nigra to Appetitive and Aversive Learning
Yosuke Arima
NIDA
A hypothalamic novelty signal modulates hippocampal memory
Adam Caccavano
NICHD
Enkephalin release from VIP interneurons in the hippocampal CA2/3a region mediates heterosynaptic plasticity and social memory
Oliver Goral
NIEHS
Role of GABA co-transmission from cholinergic neurons in brain function
Cole Calva
NIDA
A bottom-up reward pathway mediated by somatostatin neurons in the medial septum complex underlying appetitive learning
Cole Calva
NIDA
Characterizing the response of medial septal GAD2 neurons to rewarding and aversive stimuli
Emma Condy
NIMH
Feasibility of measuring prefrontal activation using fNIRS during a response inhibition task in Williams syndrome
Hector Yarur Castillo
NIMH
Dynorphin/kappa-opioid receptor regulation of excitation-inhibition balance toggles afferent control of prefrontal cortical circuits in a pathway-specific manner
Sebastiano Bariselli
NIAAA
Sex-specific effects of gestational ethanol exposure on striatal acetylcholine-dopamine dynamics
2021
Justin Siemian
NIDA
Revealing the structure of pharmacobehavioral space through motion sequencing
Valerie Darcey
NIDDK
Presenting data for publication
Brenton Laing
NIDA
Wireless optogenetic stimulation of oxytocin neurons in a semi-natural setup dynamically elevates both pro-social and agnostic behaviors
Cole Calva
NIDA VTA
Glutamate Neuron Activity Drives Positive Reinforcement Absent Dopamine Co-release
Ryan Shepard
NINDS
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation
Ayland Letsinger
NIEHS Belief in the law of small numbers
Hector Yarur Castillo
NIMH
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement
Rodolfo Flores
NIMH
The paraventricular thalamus provides a polysynaptic brake on limbic CRF neurons to sex dependently blunt binge alcohol drinking and avoidance behavior in mice
Patrick Piantadosi
NIAAA
Corticostriatal activity driving compulsive reward seeking
2020
Valerie Darcey
NIDDK
Dopamine synthesis capacity is associated with D2/3 receptor binding but not dopamine release
Paul Kramer
NINDS
A unified framework for dopamine signals across timescales
Zak Brodnik
NIDA
A cortical-brainstem circuit predicts and governs compulsive alcohol drinking
Daria Piacentino
NIDA/NIAAA
Review of own data
Matt Gardner
NIDA
A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning
Saumitra Choudhury
NICHD
Epigenetic Signaling in Glia Controls Presynaptic Homeostatic Plasticity
Chris Mazzone
NIEHS
Depression of Accumbal to Lateral Hypothalamic Synapses Gates Overeating
Jisoo Lee
NIAAA
Microglial activation increases cocaine self-administration following adolescent nicotine exposure
Patrick Piantadosi
NIAAA
A Genetically Defined Compartmentalized Striatal Direct Pathway for Negative Reinforcement
Emma Condy
NIMH
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