List of works - Leslie R. Whitaker

A Low Affinity GCaMP3 Variant (GCaMPer) for Imaging the Endoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Store

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Abstinence-dependent dissociable central amygdala microcircuits control drug craving

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Associative Learning Drives the Formation of Silent Synapses in Neuronal Ensembles of the Nucleus Accumbens.

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Behavioral and Physiological Effects of a Novel Kappa-Opioid Receptor-Based DREADD in Rats

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Bidirectional Modulation of Intrinsic Excitability in Rat Prelimbic Cortex Neuronal Ensembles and Non-Ensembles after Operant Learning.

scientific article published on 4 August 2017

Brief, But Not Prolonged, Pauses in the Firing of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Are Sufficient to Produce a Conditioned Inhibitor

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Chasing the addicted engram: identifying functional alterations in Fos-expressing neuronal ensembles that mediate drug-related learned behavior

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Distinct Fos-Expressing Neuronal Ensembles in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Food Reward and Extinction Memories

scientific article published on June 2016

Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning

scientific article

Medial orbitofrontal inactivation does not affect economic choice

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Near-infrared fluorescent protein iRFP713 as a reporter protein for optogenetic vectors, a transgenic Cre-reporter rat, and other neuronal studies

scientific article published on 2 April 2017

Neuron-Specific Genome Modification in the Adult Rat Brain Using CRISPR-Cas9 Transgenic Rats

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Parametric investigation of social place preference in adolescent mice

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Parvalbumin-Expressing Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens: A New Player in Amphetamine Sensitization and Reward.

scientific article

Previous Ethanol Experience Enhances Synaptic Plasticity of NMDA Receptors in the Ventral Tegmental Area ⬇️

scientific article published on April 6, 2011

Role of Ventral Subiculum in Context-Induced Relapse to Alcohol Seeking after Punishment-Imposed Abstinence

scientific article published on March 2016

Separate vmPFC Ensembles Control Cocaine Self-Administration Versus Extinction in Rats

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Social deprivation enhances VTA synaptic plasticity and drug-induced contextual learning.

scientific article published in January 2013

Supramammillary neurons projecting to the septum regulate dopamine and motivation for environmental interaction in mice

scientific article

The Anterior Insular Cortex→Central Amygdala Glutamatergic Pathway Is Critical to Relapse after Contingency Management.

scientific article published in October 2017

The Emergence of a Stable Neuronal Ensemble from a Wider Pool of Activated Neurons in the Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Appetitive Learning in Mice

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

List of works by Leslie R. Whitaker

A Low Affinity GCaMP3 Variant (GCaMPer) for Imaging the Endoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Store

Abstinence-dependent dissociable central amygdala microcircuits control drug craving

Associative Learning Drives the Formation of Silent Synapses in Neuronal Ensembles of the Nucleus Accumbens.

Behavioral and Physiological Effects of a Novel Kappa-Opioid Receptor-Based DREADD in Rats

Bidirectional Modulation of Intrinsic Excitability in Rat Prelimbic Cortex Neuronal Ensembles and Non-Ensembles after Operant Learning.

Brief, But Not Prolonged, Pauses in the Firing of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Are Sufficient to Produce a Conditioned Inhibitor

Chasing the addicted engram: identifying functional alterations in Fos-expressing neuronal ensembles that mediate drug-related learned behavior

Distinct Fos-Expressing Neuronal Ensembles in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Food Reward and Extinction Memories

Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning

Medial orbitofrontal inactivation does not affect economic choice

Near-infrared fluorescent protein iRFP713 as a reporter protein for optogenetic vectors, a transgenic Cre-reporter rat, and other neuronal studies

Neuron-Specific Genome Modification in the Adult Rat Brain Using CRISPR-Cas9 Transgenic Rats

Parametric investigation of social place preference in adolescent mice

Parvalbumin-Expressing Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens: A New Player in Amphetamine Sensitization and Reward.

Previous Ethanol Experience Enhances Synaptic Plasticity of NMDA Receptors in the Ventral Tegmental Area ⬇️

Role of Ventral Subiculum in Context-Induced Relapse to Alcohol Seeking after Punishment-Imposed Abstinence

Separate vmPFC Ensembles Control Cocaine Self-Administration Versus Extinction in Rats

Social deprivation enhances VTA synaptic plasticity and drug-induced contextual learning.

Supramammillary neurons projecting to the septum regulate dopamine and motivation for environmental interaction in mice

The Anterior Insular Cortex→Central Amygdala Glutamatergic Pathway Is Critical to Relapse after Contingency Management.

The Emergence of a Stable Neuronal Ensemble from a Wider Pool of Activated Neurons in the Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Appetitive Learning in Mice