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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Friedbert Weiss is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States. They have made contributions across multiple fields within neuroscience and molecular biology, with a significant focus on receptor mechanisms, signaling processes, and neuropeptides.

Their work spans primary research areas including:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

More specifically, their subfields of focus include:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Physiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Reproductive Medicine

The main topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • Role of Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ-NOP Receptor System in the Regulation of Stress-Related Disorders, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Genetically selected alcohol-preferring msP rats to study alcohol use disorder: Anything lost in translation?, 2021, Neuropharmacology
  • Cannabidiol Produces Distinct U-Shaped Dose-Response Effects on Cocaine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference and Associated Recruitment of Prelimbic Neurons in Male Rats, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
  • NOP receptor antagonism attenuates reinstatement of alcohol-seeking through modulation of the mesolimbic circuitry in male and female alcohol-preferring rats, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Compulsive alcohol seeking and relapse: Central role of conditioning factors associated with alleviation of withdrawal states by alcohol, 2022, British Journal of Pharmacology

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Neuropharmacology
  • British Journal of Pharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
  • Alcohol

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Friedbert Weiss include:

  • Roberto Ciccocioppo
  • Anna Maria Borruto
  • Hermina Nedelescu
  • Michele Petrella
  • Nazzareno Cannella

In 2018, Friedbert Weiss was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an accolade signaling involvement in scientific advancement activities.

Best Publications

  • The dopamine hypothesis of reward: past and current status

    Rainer Spanagel;Friedbert Weiss

  • Oral alcohol self-administration stimulates dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens: genetic and motivational determinants.

    F Weiss;M T Lorang;F E Bloom;G F Koob

  • Increase of extracellular corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoreactivity levels in the amygdala of awake rats during restraint stress and ethanol withdrawal as measured by microdialysis

    EM Pich;M Lorang;M Yeganeh;F Rodriguez de Fonseca

  • Neurobiology of drug addiction.

    George F. Koob;S. Barak Caine;Petri Hyytia;Athina Markou

  • Animal models of drug craving

    A Markou;F Weiss;L H Gold;S B Caine

  • Neurocircuitry targets in ethanol reward and dependence.

    George F. Koob;Amanda J. Roberts;Gery Schulteis;Loren H. Parsons

  • Control of cocaine-seeking behavior by drug-associated stimuli in rats: Effects on recovery of extinguished operant-responding and extracellular dopamine levels in amygdala and nucleus accumbens

    Friedbert Weiss;Carmen S. Maldonado-Vlaar;Loren H. Parsons;Tony M. Kerr

  • Activation of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in the Limbic System During Cannabinoid Withdrawal

    Fernando Rodrı́guez de Fonseca;M. Rocı́o A. Carrera;M. Rocı́o A. Carrera;Miguel Navarro;Miguel Navarro;George F. Koob;George F. Koob

  • Compulsive drug-seeking behavior and relapse. Neuroadaptation, stress, and conditioning factors.

    Friedbert Weiss;Roberto Ciccocioppo;Loren H. Parsons;Simon Katner

  • Ethanol Self-Administration Restores Withdrawal-Associated Deficiencies in Accumbal Dopamine and 5-Hydroxytryptamine Release in Dependent Rats

    Friedbert Weiss;Loren H. Parsons;Gery Schulteis;Petri Hyytiä

  • Neurobiology of craving, conditioned reward and relapse.

    Friedbert Weiss

  • Additive Effect of Stress and Drug Cues on Reinstatement of Ethanol Seeking: Exacerbation by History of Dependence and Role of Concurrent Activation of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Opioid Mechanisms

    Xiu Liu;Friedbert Weiss

  • Cocaine-predictive stimulus induces drug-seeking behavior and neural activation in limbic brain regions after multiple months of abstinence: reversal by D(1) antagonists.

    Roberto Ciccocioppo;Pietro Paolo Sanna;Friedbert Weiss

  • Behavioral neurobiology of alcohol addiction: recent advances and challenges.

    Friedbert Weiss;Linda J. Porrino

  • Suppression of Ethanol-Reinforced Behavior by Naltrexone Is Associated with Attenuation of the Ethanol-Induced Increase in Dialysate Dopamine Levels in the Nucleus Accumbens

    Rueben A. Gonzales;Friedbert Weiss

  • Basal extracellular dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens are decreased during cocaine withdrawal after unlimited-access self-administration.

    Friedbert Weiss;Athina Markou;Marge T. Lorang;George F. Koob

  • Preferential Effects of the Metabotropic Glutamate 2/3 Receptor Agonist LY379268 on Conditioned Reinstatement versus Primary Reinforcement: Comparison between Cocaine and a Potent Conventional Reinforcer

    Marco A S Baptista;Rémi Martin-Fardon;Friedbert Weiss

  • Stress enhancement of craving during sobriety: a risk for relapse.

    George R. Breese;Kathleen Chu;Christopher V. Dayas;Douglas Funk

  • Reinstatement of alcohol-seeking behavior by drug-associated discriminative stimuli after prolonged extinction in the rat.

    Simon N Katner;Jennifer G Magalong;Friedbert Weiss

  • In vivo CRF release in rat amygdala is increased during cocaine withdrawal in self-administering rats.

    Regina M. Richter;Friedbert Weiss

Frequent Co-Authors

George F. Koob
George F. Koob National Institute on Drug Abuse
Rémi Martin-Fardon
Rémi Martin-Fardon Scripps Research Institute
Roberto Ciccocioppo
Roberto Ciccocioppo University of Camerino
Loren H. Parsons
Loren H. Parsons Scripps Research Institute
Athina Markou
Athina Markou University of California, San Diego
Eric P. Zorrilla
Eric P. Zorrilla Scripps Research Institute
Christopher V. Dayas
Christopher V. Dayas University of Newcastle Australia
Amanda J. Roberts
Amanda J. Roberts Scripps Research Institute
Markus Heilig
Markus Heilig Linköping University
Gery Schulteis
Gery Schulteis University of California, San Diego

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