Publications - BFSinger Neuroscience

Journal Articles

Singer BF (2019). Diverse characteristics of addiction necessitate multiple preclinical models. Biological Psychiatry, In Press.

Singer BF, Fadanelli M, Kawa AB, Robinson TE (2018) Are cocaine-seeking "habits" necessary for the development of addiction-like behavior in rats? Journal of Neuroscience, 38(1): 60-73. See Neuroscience News, Michigan News, NIH Award.

Singer BF, Bryan MA, Popov P, Robinson TE, Aragona BJ (2017) Rapid sensitization of cocaine induced dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens shell. Behavioural Brain Research, 324: 66-70.

Singer BF, Bryan MA, Popov P, Scarff R, Carter C, Wright E, Aragona BJ, Robinson TE (2016) The sensory features of a food cue influence its ability to act as an incentive stimulus and evoke dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core. Learning and Memory, 23: 595-606.

Singer BF, Bubula N, Przybycien-Szymanska MM, Li D, Vezina P (2016) Stimuli associated with the presence or absence of amphetamine regulate cytoskeletal signaling and behavior. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 26(11): 1836-1842.

Singer BF, Bubula N, Li D, Przybycien-Szymanska MM, Bindokas V, Vezina P (2016) Drug-paired contextual stimuli increase dendritic spine dynamics in select neurons of the nucleus accumbens. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(8): 2178-87. July cover image.

Singer BF, Guptaroy B, Austin CJ, Wohl I, Lovic V, Seiler JL, Vaughan RA, Gnegy ME, Robinson TE, Aragona BJ (2016) Individual variation in incentive salience attribution and accumbens dopamine transporter expression and function. European Journal of Neuroscience, 43(5): 662-70.

Ahrens AM, Singer BF, Fitzpatrick CJ, Morrow JD, Robinson TE (2016) Sign-trackers are resistant to Pavlovian but not instrumental extinction. Behavioural Brain Research, 296:418-430.

Singer BF, Neugebauer NM, Forneris J, Rodvelt KR, Li D, Bubula N, Vezina P (2014) Locomotor conditioning by amphetamine requires cyclin-dependent kinase 5 signaling in the nucleus accumbens. Neuropharmacology. 2014 Oct; 85:243-52.

Vander Weele CM, Porter-Stransky KA, Mabrouk OS, Lovic V, Singer BF, Kennedy RT, Aragona BJ (2014) Rapid dopamine transmission within the nucleus accumbens: Dramatic difference between morphine and oxycodone delivery. European Journal of Neuroscience, 40(7):3041-54.

Singer BF, Forneris J, Vezina P (2014) Inhibiting cyclin-dependent kinase 5 in the nucleus accumbens enhances the expression of amphetamine-induced locomotor conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 275C:96-100.

Singer BF, Scott-Railton J, Vezina P (2012) Unpredictable saccharin reinforcement enhances locomotor responding to amphetamine. Behavioural Brain Research, 226(1):340-4.

Singer BF, Loweth JA, Neve RL, Vezina P (2010) Transient viral-mediated overexpression of alpha-calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the nucleus accumbens shell leads to long-lasting functional upregulation of alpha-amino-3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionate receptors: dopamine type-1 receptor and protein kinase A dependence. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31(7):1243-51.

Loweth JA, Singer BF, Baker LK, Wilke G, Inamine H, Bubula N, Alexander JK, Carlezon WA Jr, Neve RL, Vezina P (2010) Transient overexpression of alpha-Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the nucleus accumbens shell enhances behavioral responding to amphetamine. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(3):939-49.

Singer BF, Tanabe LM, Gorny G, Jake-Matthews C, Li Y, Kolb B, Vezina P (2009) Amphetamine-induced changes in dendritic morphology in rat forebrain correspond to associative drug conditioning rather than nonassociative drug sensitization. Biological Psychiatry, 65(10):835-40.

Hunter JD, Hanan DM, Singer BF, Shaikh S, Brubaker KA, Hecox KE, Towle VL (2005) Locating chronically implanted subdural electrodes using surface reconstruction. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116(8):1984-7.

Books & Book Chapters

Singer BF (2016) The myth of the drug-habit: defining addiction as a disease. Chapter 3 in Youth Substance Abuse by David E. Newton. ABC-CLIO, ISBN 978-1-4408-3982-5.

Singer BF, Robinson TE (2014) The incentive-sensitization disease model of addiction: Where are we now? McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0071831062. 167-169.

Singer BF (editor), Anselme P, Robinson MJ, Vezina P (2014) Neuronal and psychological underpinnings of pathological gambling. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8:230. Introduction for associated E-Book, ISBN 978-2-88919-320-2.

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