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Selected Center Papers
Rijsketic DR, Casey AB, Barbosa DAN, et al. UNRAVELing the synergistic effects of psilocybin and environment on brain-wide immediate early gene expression in mice. Preprint. bioRxiv. 2023;2023.02.19.528997. Published 2023 Feb 21. doi:10.1101/2023.02.19.528997 [PDF]
Pomrenze MB, Cardozo Pinto DF, Neumann PA, Llorach P, Tucciarone JM, Morishita W, Eshel N, Heifets BD, Malenka RC. Modulation of 5-HT release by dynorphin mediates social deficits during opioid withdrawal. Neuron. 2022 Dec 21;110(24):4125-4143.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.09.024. Epub 2022 Oct 5. PMID: 36202097; PMCID: PMC9789200. [Pubmed]
Steinberg EE, Gore F, Heifets BD, Taylor MD, Norville ZC, Beier KT, Földy C, Lerner TN, Luo L, Deisseroth K, Malenka RC. Amygdala-Midbrain Connections Modulate Appetitive and Aversive Learning. Neuron. 2020 Jun 17;106(6):1026-1043.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.016. Epub 2020 Apr 14. PMID: 32294466. [PDF]
Heifets BD, Salgado JS, Taylor MD, Hoerbelt P, Cardozo Pinto DF, Steinberg EE, Walsh JJ, Sze JY, Malenka RC. Distinct neural mechanisms for the prosocial and rewarding properties of MDMA. Sci Transl Med. 2019 Dec 11;11(522):eaaw6435. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaw6435. PMID: 31826983; PMCID: PMC7123941. [PDF]