Recent Publications
Ben-Shahar, O., Keeley, P., Cook, M., Brake, W., Joyce, M., Nyffeler, M., Heston, R., and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Changes in levels of D1, D2 or NMDA receptors during withdrawal from brief or extended daily access to IV cocaine. Brain Research 1131:220-228.
Guzman, D. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Runway self-administration of intracerebroventricular cocaine: evidence of mixed positive and negative drug actions. Behavioral Pharmacology 18:53-60.
Walker, B.M. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Intraventricular ethanol-induced conditioned place preferences are prevented by fluphenazine infusions into the nucleus accumbens of rats. Behavioral Neuroscience 121:401-410.
Ettenberg, A. and Bernardi, R.E. (2007) Effects of buspirone on the immediate positive and delayed negative properties of intravenous cocaine as measured in the conditioned place preference test. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 87:171-178.
Cohen, A. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Motivational effects of nicotine as measured in a runway model of drug self-administration. Behavioral Pharmacology 18:265-271.
Moscarello, J.M., Ben-Shahar, O.M. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Dynamic interaction between medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens as a function of both motivational state and reinforcer magnitude: A c-Fos immunocytochemistry study. Brain Research 1169:69-76.
Ben-Shahar, O., Posthumus E.J., Waldroup S.A. and Ettenberg, A. (2008) Heightened drug-seeking motivation following extended daily access to self-administered cocaine. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 32:863-869.
Nofrey,B., Rocha B., Lopez, H.H., and Ettenberg A. (2008) The effects of sexual experience and estrus on male-seeking motivated behavior in the female rat. Physiology & Behavior 95:533-538.
Moscarelo J.M., Ben-Shahar O.M. and Ettenberg A. (2009) Effects of food deprivation on goal-directed behavior, spontaneous locomotion, and c-Fos immunoreactivity in the amygdala. Behavioral Brain Research 197:9-15.
Ettenberg A. (2009) The runway model of drug self-administration. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 91:271-277.
Guzman D., Moscarello J.M. and Ettenberg A. (2009) The effects of medial prefrontal cortex infusions of cocaine in a runway model of drug self-administration: evidence of reinforcing but not anxiogenic actions. European Journasl of Pharmacology 605:117-122.
Cohen A., Young R., Velazquez M., Noordehesht K., Groysman M, Ben-Shahar O.M. and Ettenberg A. (2009) Anxiolytic effects of nicotine in a rodent test of approach-avoidance conflict. Psychopharmacology 204:541-549.
Moscarello J.M., Ben-Shahar O.M. and Ettenberg A. (2010) external incentives and internal states guide goal-directed behavior via the differential recruitment of the nucleus accumbens and the medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience 170:468-477.
Ettenberg A., Ofer ).A., Mueller C.L., Waldroup A., Cohen A. and Ben-Shahar O.M. (2011) Inactivation of the dorsal raphe nucleus reduces the anxiogenic response of rats running an alley for intravenous cocaine. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 97:632-639.
Kerstetter K.A., Su Z-I., Ettenberg A., and Kippin K.E. (2011) Sex and estrous cycle differences in cocaine-induced approach-avoidance conflict. Addiction Biology, in press.
Su Z-I., Wenzel J., Baird R. and Ettenberg A. (2011) Comparison of self-administration behavior and responsiveness to drug-paired cues in rats running an alley for intravenous heroin and cocaine. Psychopharmacology 214:769-778.
Wenzel J., Waldroup S., Haber Z., Su Z-I., Ben-Shahar O.M. and Ettenberg A. (2011) Effects of lidocaine-induced inactivation of the ned nuclesu of the stria terminalis, the cengtral or the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala on the opponent-process actions of self-administered cocaine in rats. Psychopharmacology, in press.