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Bita Moghaddam is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience with an emphasis on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Psychedelics and Drug Studies, Chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Bita Moghaddam has contributed several recent research papers over the last few years. These include:

  • Acute psilocybin enhances cognitive flexibility in rats, 2023, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Medial prefrontal cortex encoding of stress and anxiety, 2021, International review of neurobiology
  • Prefrontal Cortex Representation of Learning of Punishment Probability During Reward-Motivated Actions, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Sex and strain differences in dynamic and static properties of the mesolimbic dopamine system, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Unanticipated Stressful and Rewarding Experiences Engage the Same Prefrontal Cortex and Ventral Tegmental Area Neuronal Populations, 2020, eNeuro

Frequent collaborators in their research include David S. Jacobs, Aqilah M. McCane, Alejandro Torrado Pacheco, Junchol Park, and Kathryn G. Wallin-Miller.

Bita Moghaddam has published multiple articles in several scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • International review of neurobiology

In addition to journal articles, Bita Moghaddam has authored a book titled Ketamine, published in 2021 by The MIT Press.

Best Publications

  • Activation of Glutamatergic Neurotransmission by Ketamine: A Novel Step in the Pathway from NMDA Receptor Blockade to Dopaminergic and Cognitive Disruptions Associated with the Prefrontal Cortex

    Bita Moghaddam;Barbara Adams;Anita Verma;Darron Daly

  • NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Produces Opposite Effects on Prefrontal Cortex Interneurons and Pyramidal Neurons

    Houman Homayoun;Bita Moghaddam

  • Reversal of Phencyclidine Effects by a Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Agonist in Rats

    Bita Moghaddam;Barbara W. Adams

  • From revolution to evolution: the glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia and its implication for treatment.

    Bita Moghaddam;Daniel Javitt

  • Nafion-coated electrodes with high selectivity for CNS electrochemistry.

    Greg A. Gerhardt;Arvin F. Oke;Geza Nagy;Bita Moghaddam

  • Stress preferentially increases extraneuronal levels of excitatory amino acids in the prefrontal cortex : comparison to hippocampus and basal ganglia

    Bita Moghaddam

  • Acute effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs on the release of dopamine from prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and striatum of the rat: an in vivo microdialysis study.

    Bita Moghaddam;Benjamin S. Bunney

  • Glucocortcoids mediate the stress-induced extracellular accumulation of glutamate ☆

    Bita Moghaddam;Maria L. Bolinao;Becky Stein-Behrens;Robert Sapolsky

  • NMDA receptor antagonists impair prefrontal cortex function as assessed via spatial delayed alternation performance in rats: modulation by dopamine

    Anita Verma;Bita Moghaddam

  • Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Convergence of γ-Aminobutyric Acid and Glutamate Alterations

    David A. Lewis;Bita Moghaddam

  • Bringing order to the glutamate chaos in schizophrenia.

    Bita Moghaddam

  • Stress activation of glutamate neurotransmission in the prefrontal cortex: implications for dopamine-associated psychiatric disorders

    Bita Moghaddam

  • NMDA receptor hypofunction produces concomitant firing rate potentiation and burst activity reduction in the prefrontal cortex

    Mark E. Jackson;Houman Homayoun;Bita Moghaddam

  • The prefrontal cortex regulates the basal release of dopamine in the limbic striatum: an effect mediated by ventral tegmental area.

    Mignon Karreman;Bita Moghaddam

  • Neurobiological links between stress and anxiety.

    Nuria Daviu;Michael R. Bruchas;Bita Moghaddam;Carmen Sandi

  • Corticolimbic dopamine neurotransmission is temporally dissociated from the cognitive and locomotor effects of phencyclidine

    Barbara Adams;Bita Moghaddam

  • The neurobiology of adolescence: Changes in brain architecture, functional dynamics, and behavioral tendencies

    David A. Sturman;Bita Moghaddam

  • Dopaminergic innervation of the amygdala is highly responsive to stress

    Fiona M. Inglis;Bita Moghaddam

  • Amygdala regulation of nucleus accumbens dopamine output is governed by the prefrontal cortex.

    Mark E. Jackson;Bita Moghaddam

  • Ionic composition of microdialysis perfusing solution alters the pharmacological responsiveness and basal outflow of striatal dopamine.

    Bita Moghaddam;Benjamin S. Bunney

  • Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

    David A. Lewis;Bita Moghaddam

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin S. Bunney
Benjamin S. Bunney Yale University
Linda Rinaman
Linda Rinaman Florida State University
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa Johns Hopkins University
Jay A. Gingrich
Jay A. Gingrich Columbia University
Ilana B. Witten
Ilana B. Witten Princeton University
Til Wykes
Til Wykes King's College London
Karen J. Mitchell
Karen J. Mitchell West Chester University
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center

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