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Overview

Diana Martinez is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a significant focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Additional subfields include Physiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as the neuroscience of respiration and sleep, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and sleep and wakefulness research. Other important areas of investigation include obstructive sleep apnea research, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, functional brain connectivity studies, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent publication venues where Martinez's work appears include Neuropsychopharmacology, Cancer, Hypertension Research, the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Martinez has co-authored extensively with several researchers, notably David D. Kline, Eileen M. Hasser, Marisa C. Weiss, Julianne Hibbs, and Sam Meske.

Representative papers from their recent work include:

  • Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience (2021), Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial (2021), World Psychiatry
  • A Coala-T-Cannabis Survey Study of breast cancer patients' use of cannabis before, during, and after treatment (2021), Cancer
  • Chemical Targeting of Voltage Sensitive Dyes to Specific Cells and Molecules in the Brain (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The relationship between SGLT2 and systemic blood pressure regulation (2024), Hypertension Research

Best Publications

  • Prefrontal dopamine D1 receptors and working memory in schizophrenia.

    Anissa Abi-Dargham;Osama Mawlawi;Ilise Lombardo;Roberto Gil

  • Imaging Human Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission with Positron Emission Tomography: I. Accuracy and Precision of D2 Receptor Parameter Measurements in Ventral Striatum:

    Osama Mawlawi;Diana Martinez;Mark Slifstein;Allegra Broft

  • Imaging human mesolimbic dopamine transmission with positron emission tomography. Part II: amphetamine-induced dopamine release in the functional subdivisions of the striatum.

    Diana Martinez;Mark Slifstein;Allegra Broft;Osama Mawlawi

  • Alcohol Dependence Is Associated with Blunted Dopamine Transmission in the Ventral Striatum

    Diana Martinez;Roberto Gil;Mark Slifstein;Dah Ren Hwang

  • Amphetamine-Induced Dopamine Release: Markedly Blunted in Cocaine Dependence and Predictive of the Choice to Self-Administer Cocaine

    Diana Martinez;Rajesh Narendran;Richard W. Foltin;Mark Slifstein

  • Increased anterior cingulate and caudate activity in bipolar mania.

    Hilary P Blumberg;Emily Stern;Diana Martinez;Sally Ricketts

  • Cocaine dependence and d2 receptor availability in the functional subdivisions of the striatum: relationship with cocaine-seeking behavior.

    Diana Martinez;Allegra Broft;Richard W Foltin;Mark Slifstein

  • Rostral and orbital prefrontal cortex dysfunction in the manic state of bipolar disorder.

    Hilary P. Blumberg;Emily Stern;Sally Ricketts;Diana Martinez

  • Imaging Dopamine Transmission in Cocaine Dependence: Link Between Neurochemistry and Response to Treatment

    Diana Martinez;Kenneth M. Carpenter;Fei Liu;Mark Slifstein

  • The variable number of tandem repeats polymorphism of the dopamine transporter gene is not associated with significant change in dopamine transporter phenotype in humans.

    Diana Martinez;Joel Gelernter;Anissa Abi-Dargham;Christopher H van Dyck

  • Sex Differences in Striatal Dopamine Release in Young Adults After Oral Alcohol Challenge: A Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Study With [11C]Raclopride

    Nina B.L. Urban;Lawrence S. Kegeles;Mark Slifstein;Xiaoyan Xu

  • Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience.

    Markus Heilig;James MacKillop;James MacKillop;Diana Martinez;Jürgen Rehm

  • In vivo vulnerability to competition by endogenous dopamine: comparison of the D2 receptor agonist radiotracer (-)-N-[11C]propyl-norapomorphine ([11C]NPA) with the D2 receptor antagonist radiotracer [11C]-raclopride.

    Rajesh Narendran;Dah Ren Hwang;Mark Slifstein;Peter S. Talbot

  • Increasing dopamine D2 receptor expression in the adult nucleus accumbens enhances motivation.

    Pierre Trifilieff;Bo Feng;Eneko Urizar;Vanessa Winiger

  • Lower level of endogenous dopamine in patients with cocaine dependence: findings from PET imaging of D(2)/D(3) receptors following acute dopamine depletion.

    Diana Martinez;B.A. Kaitlin Greene;Allegra Broft;Dileep Kumar

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial

    Abraham Zangen;Hagar Moshe;Diana Martinez;Noam Barnea-Ygael

  • Measurement of striatal and extrastriatal dopamine D1 receptor binding potential with [11C]NNC 112 in humans: validation and reproducibility.

    Anissa Abi-Dargham;Diana Martinez;Osama Mawlawi;Norman Simpson

  • Imaging addiction: D2 receptors and dopamine signaling in the striatum as biomarkers for impulsivity

    Pierre Trifilieff;Diana Martinez

  • Altered prefrontal dopaminergic function in chronic recreational ketamine users.

    Rajesh Narendran;W. Gordon Frankle;Richard Keefe;Roberto Gil

  • Dopamine type 2/3 receptor availability in the striatum and social status in human volunteers.

    Diana Martinez;Daria Orlowska;Rajesh Narendran;Mark Slifstein

  • Striatal amphetamine-induced dopamine release in patients with schizotypal personality disorder studied with single photon emission computed tomography and [123I]iodobenzamide

    Anissa Abi-Dargham;Lawrence S Kegeles;Yolanda Zea-Ponce;Osama Mawlawi

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Foltin
Richard W. Foltin Columbia University
Sandra D. Comer
Sandra D. Comer Columbia University
Xuejun Hao
Xuejun Hao Columbia University
Rachel Marsh
Rachel Marsh Columbia University
Frances R. Levin
Frances R. Levin Columbia University
Mark G. Packard
Mark G. Packard Texas A&M University
David Eidelberg
David Eidelberg Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Emily Stern
Emily Stern Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nabeel Nabulsi
Nabeel Nabulsi Yale University
Abraham Zangen
Abraham Zangen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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