Publications

Bocarsly, M. E., Shaw, M. J., Ventriglia, E., Anderson, L. G., Goldbach, H. C., Teresi, C. E., Bravo, M., Bock, R., Hong, P., Kwon, H. B., Khawaja, I. M., Raman, R., Murray, E. M., Bonaventura, J., Burke, D. A., Michaelides, M., & Alvarez, V. A. (2024). Preexisting risk-avoidance and enhanced alcohol relief are driven by imbalance of the striatal dopamine receptors in mice. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53414-y

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Nasello C, Poppi LA, Wu J, Kowalski TF, Thackray JK, Wang R, Persaud A, Mahboob M, Lin S, Spaseska R, Johnson CK, Gordon D, Tissir F, Heiman GA, Tischfield JA, Bocarsly M, Tischfield MA (2024). Human mutations in high-confidence Tourette disorder genes affect sensorimotor behavior, reward learning, and striatal dopamine in mice. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.2307156121

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Zi Z, Bocarsly M, Galaj E, Hempel B, Teresi C, Shaw M, Bi G, Jordan C, Linz E, Alton H, Tanda G, Freyberg Z, Alvarez V, Newman A (2024). Presynaptic and postsynaptic mesolimbic dopamine D3 receptors play distinct roles in cocaine versus opioid reward in mice. Biological Psychiatry doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.05.020