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Recent Publications

2023:


Harman, T., Udoh, M., McElroy, D. L., Anderson, L. L., Kevin, R. C., Banister, S. D., Ametovski, A., Markham, J., Bladen, C., Doohan, P. T., Greba, Q., Laprairie, R. B., Snutch, T. P., McGregor, I. S., Howland, J. G., & Arnold, J. C. (2023). MEPIRAPIM-derived synthetic cannabinoids inhibit T-type calcium channels with divergent effects on seizures in rodent models of epilepsy. Front Physiol, 14, 1086243. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1086243

Park, A., Jacob, A. D., Hsiang, H. L., Frankland, P. W., Howland, J. G., & Josselyn, S. A. (2023). Formation and fate of an engram in the lateral amygdala supporting a rewarding memory in mice. Neuropsychopharmacology, 48(5), 724-733. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01472-5

2022:

Jansen, E. B., Orvold, S. N., Swan, C. L., Yourkowski, A., Thivierge, B. M., Francis, M. E., Ge, A., Rioux, M., Darbellay, J., Howland, J. G., & Kelvin, A. A. (2022). After the virus has cleared-Can preclinical models be employed for Long COVID research? PLoS Pathog, 18(9), e1010741. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010741

Cromar, G. L., Epp, J. R., Popovic, A., Gu, Y., Ha, V., Walters, B. J., St Pierre, J., Xiong, X., Howland, J. G., Josselyn, S. A., Frankland, P. W., & Parkinson, J. (2022). Toxoplasma infection in male mice alters dopamine-sensitive behaviors and host gene expression patterns associated with neuropsychiatric disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 16(7), e0010600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010600

Barnard, I. L., Onofrychuk, T. J., Sandini, T. M., McElroy, D. L., Zagzoog, A., Roebuck, A. J., Austin-Scott, F. V., Laprairie, R. B., & Howland, J. G. (2022). The effects of acute Cannabis smoke or Delta(9)-THC injections on the trial-unique, nonmatching-to-location and five-choice serial reaction time tasks in male Long-Evans rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem, 192, 107624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107624

Howland, J. G., Ito, R., Lapish, C. C., & Villaruel, F. R. (2022). The rodent medial prefrontal cortex and associated circuits in orchestrating adaptive behavior under variable demands. Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 135, 104569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104569

McElroy, D. L., Roebuck, A. J., Greba, Q., Garai, S., Brandt, A. L., Yilmaz, O., Cain, S. M., Snutch, T. P., Thakur, G. A., Laprairie, R. B., & Howland, J. G. (2022). The type 1 cannabinoid receptor positive allosteric modulators GAT591 and GAT593 reduce spike-and-wave discharges in Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg. IBRO Neurosci Rep, 12, 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibneur.2022.01.006

Roebuck, A. J., Greba, Q., Onofrychuk, T. J., McElroy, D. L., Sandini, T. M., Zagzoog, A., Simone, J., Cain, S. M., Snutch, T. P., Laprairie, R. B., & Howland, J. G. (2022). Dissociable changes in spike and wave discharges following exposure to injected cannabinoids and smoked cannabis in Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg. Eur J Neurosci, 55(4), 1063-1078. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15096

2021:

Barnard, I. L., Onofrychuk, T. J., McElroy, D. L., & Howland, J. G. (2021). The Touchscreen-Based Trial-Unique, Nonmatching-To-Location (TUNL) Task as a Measure of Working Memory and Pattern Separation in Rats and Mice. Curr Protoc, 1(9), e238. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.238

Scott, G. A., Terstege, D. J., Roebuck, A. J., Gorzo, K. A., Vu, A. P., Howland, J. G., & Epp, J. R. (2021). Adult neurogenesis mediates forgetting of multiple types of memory in the rat. Mol Brain, 14(1), 97. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-021-00808-4

Roebuck, A. J., Greba, Q., Smolyakova, A. M., Alaverdashvili, M., Marks, W. N., Garai, S., Baglot, S. L., Petrie, G., Cain, S. M., Snutch, T. P., Thakur, G. A., Hill, M. N., Howland, J. G., & Laprairie, R. B. (2021). Positive allosteric modulation of type 1 cannabinoid receptors reduces spike-and-wave discharges in Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg. Neuropharmacology, 190, 108553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108553

Brymer, K. J., Kulhaway, E. Y., Howland, J. G., Caruncho, H. J., & Kalynchuk, L. E. (2021). Altered acoustic startle, prepulse facilitation, and object recognition memory produced by corticosterone withdrawal in male rats. Behav Brain Res, 408, 113291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113291

McElroy, D. L., Roebuck, A. J., Scott, G. A., Greba, Q., Garai, S., Denovan-Wright, E. M., Thakur, G. A., Laprairie, R. B., & Howland, J. G. (2021). Antipsychotic potential of the type 1 cannabinoid receptor positive allosteric modulator GAT211: preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 238(4), 1087-1098. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05755-x

Onofrychuk, T. J., Cai, S., McElroy, D. L., Roebuck, A. J., Greba, Q., Garai, S., Thakur, G. A., Laprairie, R. B., & Howland, J. G. (2021). Effects of the cannabinoid receptor 1 positive allosteric modulator GAT211 and acute MK-801 on visual attention and impulsivity in rats assessed using the five-choice serial reaction time task. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 109, 110235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110235

2020:

Sandini, T. M., Greba, Q., Lins, B. R., & Howland, J. G. (2020). Maternal Immune Activation with the Viral Mimetic Poly:IC in Pregnant Rats. Bio Protoc, 10(22), e3817. https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.3817

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