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Overview

Charles W. Bradberry is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on topics related to neural mechanisms, behavior, and neuropharmacology.

The main fields of study for Bradberry include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broader disciplines, their subfields of specialization comprise:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The central topics addressed in Bradberry's work include:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

The scientist has published in several academic venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • NeuroImage
  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

Among their recent papers are:

  • The neurobiology of drug addiction: cross-species insights into the dysfunction and recovery of the prefrontal cortex (2021), Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Long-Term Cocaine Self-administration Produces Structural Brain Changes That Correlate With Altered Cognition (2020), Biological Psychiatry
  • Strengths and challenges of longitudinal non-human primate neuroimaging (2021), NeuroImage
  • Translational PET applications for brain circuit mapping with transgenic neuromodulation tools (2021), Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
  • Economic choice between remifentanil and food in squirrel monkeys (2021), Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Hank P. Jedema
  • Devin P. Effinger
  • Elliot A. Stein
  • Jacquelin C Hecker
  • Xiaowei Song

Best Publications

  • Cocaethylene: A neuropharmacologically active metabolite assciated with concurrent cocaine-ethanol ingestion

    P. Jatlow;J. D. Elsworth;C. W. Bradberry;Gail D. Winger

  • Microdialysis and SPECT Measurements of Amphetamine-Induced Dopamine Release in Nonhuman Primates

    Marc Laruelle;Marc Laruelle;Raj N. Iyer;Raj N. Iyer;Mohammed S. Al-Tikriti;Mohammed S. Al-Tikriti;Yolanda Zea-Ponce;Yolanda Zea-Ponce

  • Cocaine increases extracellular dopamine in rat nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area as shown by in vivo microdialysis.

    Charles W. Bradberry;Robert H. Roth

  • Psychostimulant Abuse and Neuroinflammation: Emerging Evidence of Their Interconnection

    Kenneth H. Clark;Clayton A. Wiley;Charles W. Bradberry

  • Cocaine and Cocaethylene: Microdialysis Comparison of Brain Drug Levels and Effects on Dopamine and Serotonin

    Charles W. Bradberry;J. B. Nobiletti;J. D. Elsworth;B. Murphy

  • Cognitive impact of genetic variation of the serotonin transporter in primates is associated with differences in brain morphology rather than serotonin neurotransmission

    Hank P. Jedema;Peter J. Gianaros;Phillip J. Greer;Dustin D. Kerr

  • Effect of ethanol on extracellular 5-HT and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex: Comparison between the Lewis and Fischer 344 rat strains

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  • Regulation of excitatory amino acid release by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in rat striatum: in vivo microdialysis studies.

    Gonzalo Bustos;Jorge Abarca;María Inés Forray;Katia Gysling

  • Serotonin-mediated increase in prefrontal cortex dopamine release: pharmacological characterization.

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  • The Anxiogenic β-Carboline FG 7142 Selectively Increases Dopamine Release in Rat Prefrontal Cortex as Measured by Microdialysis

    Charles W. Bradberry;John D. Lory;Robert H. Roth

  • The neurobiology of drug addiction: cross-species insights into the dysfunction and recovery of the prefrontal cortex

    Ahmet O Ceceli;Charles W Bradberry;Rita Z Goldstein

  • Clozapine Preferentially Increases Dopamine Release in the Rhesus Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Compared with the Caudate Nucleus

    Kenneth D Youngren;Fiona M Inglis;Philip J Pivirotto;Hank P Jedema

  • Individual differences in behavioral measures: Correlations with nucleus accumbens dopamine measured by microdialysis

    Charles W. Bradberry;Rand J. Gruen;Rand J. Gruen;Craig W. Berridge;Craig W. Berridge;Robert H. Roth

  • Local anesthetic effects of cocaethylene and isopropylcocaine on rat peripheral nerves.

    Hajime A. Tokuno;Charles W. Bradberry;Brian Everill;Samuel K. Agulian

  • Chronic Cocaine Self-Administration in Rhesus Monkeys: Impact on Associative Learning, Cognitive Control, and Working Memory

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  • Acute and Chronic Dopamine Dynamics in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Recreational Cocaine Use

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  • Mesocortical dopamine neurons: high basal firing frequency predicts tyrosine dependence of dopamine synthesis.

    S. Y. Tam;J. D. Elsworth;C. W. Bradberry;R. H. Roth

  • NMDA antagonist effects on striatal dopamine release: Microdialysis studies in awake monkeys

    Barbara W. Adams;Charles W. Bradberry;Bita Moghaddam

  • Cocaine sensitization and dopamine mediation of cue effects in rodents, monkeys, and humans: areas of agreement, disagreement, and implications for addiction

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  • MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) inhibits the firing of dorsal raphe neurons in brain slices via release of serotonin.

    Jeffrey S. Sprouse;Charles W. Bradberry;Robert H. Roth;George K. Aghajanian

  • Cryopreservation of human brain tissue

    Richard J. Robbins;Ignacio Torres-Aleman;Csaba Leranth;Charles W. Bradberry

  • Regionally-specific alterations in mesotelencephalic dopamine synthesis in diabetic rats: association with precursor tyrosine

    C W Bradberry;D H Karasic;A Y Deutch;R H Roth

  • [123I]Iomazenil spect imaging demonstrates significant benzodiazepine receptor reserve in human and nonhuman primate brain

    E. Sybirska;J.P. Seibyl;J.D. Bremner;R.M. Baldwin

  • The role of serotonin in the actions of psychostimulants: molecular and pharmacological analyses

    Kathryn A. Cunningham;Charles W. Bradberry;Albert S. Chang;Maarten E.A. Reith

  • Tonic exploration governs both flexibility and lapses.

    R. Becket Ebitz;Brianna J. Sleezer;Hank P. Jedema;Charles W. Bradberry

  • Choice between delayed food and immediate opioids in rats: treatment effects and individual differences.

    Leigh V. Panlilio;Maria E. Secci;Charles W. Schindler;Charles W. Bradberry

  • A touch screen based Stop Signal Response Task in rhesus monkeys for studying impulsivity associated with chronic cocaine self-administration.

    Shijing Liu;Richard P. Heitz;Charles W. Bradberry;Charles W. Bradberry

  • Alcohol plus cocaine: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

    Peter Jatlow;Elinore F. McCance;Charles W. Bradberry;John D. Elsworth

  • Long-Term Cocaine Self-administration Produces Structural Brain Changes That Correlate With Altered Cognition

    Hank P. Jedema;Xiaowei Song;Howard J. Aizenstein;Alexandra R. Bonner

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot A. Stein
Elliot A. Stein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Yihong Yang
Yihong Yang National Institute on Drug Abuse
Benjamin Y. Hayden
Benjamin Y. Hayden Baylor College of Medicine
Marco Pistis
Marco Pistis University of Cagliari
Leigh V. Panlilio
Leigh V. Panlilio National Institute on Drug Abuse
Howard J. Aizenstein
Howard J. Aizenstein University of Pittsburgh
Suliann Ben Hamed
Suliann Ben Hamed Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rita Z. Goldstein
Rita Z. Goldstein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Luca Ferraro
Luca Ferraro University of Ferrara
Sergi Ferré
Sergi Ferré National Institute on Drug Abuse

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