Publications

Selected Publications

Lamoureux L, Beverley J, Steiner S, Marinelli M (2023) Methylphenidate with or without fluoxetine triggers reinstatement of cocaine seeking behavior in rats. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38086900/

Pomrenze MB, Marinelli M (2021). Love it or leave it: differential modulation of incentive motivation by CRF neurons. Biological  Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.03.032 

Gordon-Fennell AG, Gordon-Fennell L, Desaivre S and Marinelli M (2020). The Lateral Preoptic Area and Its Projection to the VTA Regulate VTA Activity and Drive Complex Reward Behaviors. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2020.581830

Gordon-Fennell AG, Will RG, Ramachandra V, Gordon-Fennell L, Dominguez JM, Zahm DS and Marinelli M (2020). The Lateral Preoptic Area: A Novel Regulator of Reward Seeking and Neuronal Activity in the Ventral Tegmental Area. Frontiers in Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01433

Hankosky ER, Westbrook SR, Haake RM, Marinelli M, Gulley JM (2018). Reduced sensitivity to reinforcement in adolescent compared to adult Sprague-Dawley rats of both sexes. Psychopharmacology (Berl). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-017-4804-5

Wong WC, Marinelli M (2016). Adolescent-onset of cocaine use is associated with heightened stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking. Addiction Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12284

Marinelli M, McCutcheon JE (2014). Heterogeneity of dopamine neuron activity across traits and states. Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.034

Wang X, Cahill ME, Werner C, Christoffel D, Golden S, Xie Z, Loweth J, Marinelli M, Russo S, Penzes P, Wolf ME (2013). Kalirin-7 mediates cocaine-induced AMPA receptor and spine plasticity, enabling incentive sensitization. The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1097-13.2013

Wong WC, Ford KA, Pagels NE, McCutcheon JE, Marinelli M (2013). Adolescents are more vulnerable to cocaine addiction: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1371-12.2013

McCutcheon JE, Conrad KL, Carr SB, Ford KA, McGehee DS, Marinelli M (2012). Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area fire faster in adolescent rats than in adults. Journal of Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00077.2012

McCutcheon JE, Loweth JA, Ford KA, Marinelli M, Wolf ME, Tseng KY (2011). Group I mGluR activation reverses cocaine-induced accumulation of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in nucleus accumbens synapses via a protein kinase C-dependent mechanism. The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.3625-11.2011

McCutcheon JE, Wang X, Tseng KY, Wolf ME, Marinelli M (2011). Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors are present in nucleus accumbens synapses after prolonged withdrawal from cocaine self-administration but not experimenter-administered cocaine. The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0350-11.2011