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Overview

Barry Setlow is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and has a research portfolio focused primarily on neuroscience and medicine. Their scholarly output includes 65 publications in neuroscience and 63 in medicine, demonstrating a cross-disciplinary focus within these two broad fields.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, pharmacology, and behavioral neuroscience. This diversity reflects an interest in both the fundamental mechanisms of neural function and their implications for behavior and pharmacological treatments.

Key topics in their research encompass neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, cannabis and cannabinoid research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, stress responses and cortisol, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, anesthesia and neurotoxicity research, as well as pain mechanisms and treatments.

Barry Setlow's publications have frequently appeared in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have contributed 11 papers, as well as the journals Anesthesiology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Psychopharmacology, and Psychopharmacology. These venues indicate a focus on both clinical and experimental neuroscience and pharmacology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating on studies with Setlow include Jennifer L. Bizon, Caitlin A. Orsini, Alexa-Rae Wheeler, Mojdeh Faraji, and Tyler W. Ten Eyck, highlighting a sustained network of research partnerships.

Recent papers demonstrate a range of interests within behavioral neuroscience and pharmacology:

  • Regulation of risky decision making by gonadal hormones in males and females, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Testicular hormones mediate robust sex differences in impulsive choice in rats, 2020, eLife
  • Oxycodone decreases anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus-maze test in male and female rats, 2022, Behavioural Pharmacology
  • Effects of repeated adolescent exposure to cannabis smoke on cognitive outcomes in adulthood, 2020, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Acute vagus nerve stimulation enhances reversal learning in rats, 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Best Publications

  • Experience-dependent gene expression in the rat hippocampus after spatial learning: a comparison of the immediate-early genes Arc, c-fos, and zif268.

    John F. Guzowski;Barry Setlow;Edward K. Wagner;James L. McGaugh

  • Encoding Predicted Outcome and Acquired Value in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Cue Sampling Depends upon Input from Basolateral Amygdala

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Barry Setlow;Michael P. Saddoris;Michela Gallagher

  • Different roles for orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala in a reinforcer devaluation task.

    Charles L. Pickens;Michael P. Saddoris;Barry Setlow;Michela Gallagher

  • Lesions of Orbitofrontal Cortex and Basolateral Amygdala Complex Disrupt Acquisition of Odor-Guided Discriminations and Reversals

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Barry Setlow;Summer L. Nugent;Michael P. Saddoris

  • Memory-influencing intra-basolateral amygdala drug infusions modulate expression of Arc protein in the hippocampus

    Christa K. McIntyre;Teiko Miyashita;Barry Setlow;Kristopher D. Marjon

  • Choice impulsivity: Definitions, measurement issues, and clinical implications

    Kristen R. Hamilton;Marci R. Mitchell;Victoria C. Wing;Iris M. Balodis

  • Neural Encoding in Ventral Striatum during Olfactory Discrimination Learning

    Barry Setlow;Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Michela Gallagher

  • Amygdalo-hypothalamic circuit allows learned cues to override satiety and promote eating.

    Gorica D. Petrovich;Barry Setlow;Peter C. Holland;Michela Gallagher

  • Cocaine-experienced rats exhibit learning deficits in a task sensitive to orbitofrontal cortex lesions.

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Michael P. Saddoris;Seth J. Ramus;Yavin Shaham

  • Basolateral Amygdala-Nucleus Accumbens Interactions in Mediating Glucocorticoid Enhancement of Memory Consolidation

    Benno Roozendaal;Dominique J.-F. de Quervain;Barbara Ferry;Barry Setlow

  • Balancing risk and reward: a rat model of risky decision making.

    Nicholas W Simon;Ryan J Gilbert;Jeffrey D Mayse;Jennifer L Bizon

  • Cocaine exposure causes long-term increases in impulsive choice

    Nicholas W. Simon;Ian A. Mendez;Barry Setlow

  • Spatial reference and working memory across the lifespan of male Fischer 344 rats.

    J.L. Bizon;C.L. LaSarge;K.S. Montgomery;A.N. McDermott

  • Integrating Orbitofrontal Cortex into Prefrontal Theory: Common Processing Themes across Species and Subdivisions

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Barry Setlow

  • Cocaine Makes Actions Insensitive to Outcomes but not Extinction: Implications for Altered Orbitofrontal–Amygdalar Function

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Barry Setlow

  • Sex differences in a rat model of risky decision making.

    Caitlin A. Orsini;Markie L. Willis;Ryan J. Gilbert;Jennifer L. Bizon

  • Dopaminergic Modulation of Risky Decision-Making

    Nicholas W. Simon;Karienn S. Montgomery;Blanca S. Beas;Marci R. Mitchell

  • Neural mechanisms regulating different forms of risk-related decision-making: Insights from animal models

    Caitlin A. Orsini;David E. Moorman;Jared W. Young;Barry Setlow

  • Disconnection of the basolateral amygdala complex and nucleus accumbens impairs appetitive Pavlovian second-order conditioned responses.

    Barry Setlow;Peter C. Holland;Michela Gallagher

  • Impaired Memory Consolidation in Rats Produced with β-Adrenergic Blockade

    Larry Cahill;Christian A. Pham;Barry Setlow

  • The nucleus accumbens and learning and memory.

    Barry Setlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer L. Bizon
Jennifer L. Bizon University of Florida
Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Geoffrey Schoenbaum National Institutes of Health
Marcelo Febo
Marcelo Febo University of Florida
James L. McGaugh
James L. McGaugh University of California, Irvine
Michela Gallagher
Michela Gallagher Johns Hopkins University
Peter C. Holland
Peter C. Holland Johns Hopkins University
Drake Morgan
Drake Morgan University of Florida
Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
Warren K. Bickel
Warren K. Bickel Virginia Tech
Charles W. Mathias
Charles W. Mathias The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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