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Research Interests<\/h4>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This laboratory studies the activity of neurons that receive dopaminergic synaptic input during behaviors correlated with dopamine transmission.\u00a0 Our long range goal is to better understand the activity of dopamine’s target neurons with respect to reward learning and drug abuse.\u00a0 We record the activity of arrays of single neurons in the striatum of awake, unrestrained rats, in the sensorimotor (putamen) and limbic (accumbens) subregions of the striatum.<\/h4>\n

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Our present models include:<\/h4>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1)\u00a0 Intravenous cocaine self-administration: firing patterns of neurons\u00a0 in accumbens, ventral pallidum and dorsal striatum in relation to conditioned incentive cues that cause relapse to cocaine seeking.<\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2)\u00a0 Optogenetic identification of striatal neuron subtypes using the cre-recombinase system and channel rhodopsin.<\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3)\u00a0 Ultrasonic vocalizations of rats, coupled to neural recordings during appetitive or aversive behaviors.<\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4)\u00a0 Learning dependent changes in the accumbens, as they relate to conditioned approach behavior in a reward (sucrose) probability task.<\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5)\u00a0 Experience dependent changes in movement-related firing of putamen neurons as a function repeated exposure to cocaine and\/or behavioral task.<\/h4>\n

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IN MEMORIAM:\u00a0 Dr. Volodymyr Prokopenko<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Research Associate from Bogomoletz Institute for Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our dear colleague died too young of mantle lymphoma in April, 2006.<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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