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Overview

Gary Aston-Jones is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics mainly within neuroscience and psychology, supported by extensive work published across various scientific venues.

The scientist's research predominantly focuses on the following topics:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Their main fields of study include Neuroscience with 54 publications and Psychology with 17 publications. Subfields of particular note are Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Molecular Biology.

A selection of recent papers authored or coauthored by Gary Aston-Jones includes:

  • Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Intermittent self-administration of fentanyl induces a multifaceted addiction state associated with persistent changes in the orexin system, 2020, Addiction Biology
  • Sex Differences in Demand for Highly Palatable Foods: Role of the Orexin System, 2020, The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Repurposing the dual orexin receptor antagonist suvorexant for the treatment of opioid use disorder: why sleep on this any longer?, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Orexin Reserve: A Mechanistic Framework for the Role of Orexins (Hypocretins) in Addiction, 2022, Biological Psychiatry

Gary Aston-Jones frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Addiction Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Collaborations constitute a significant part of their research activity, with frequent coauthors including Morgan H. James, Jennifer E. Fragale, Shayna L. O'Connor, Stephen L. Foote, and Amy S. Kohtz.

Best Publications

  • An Integrative Theory of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine Function: Adaptive Gain and Optimal Performance.

    Gary Aston-Jones;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Activity of norepinephrine-containing locus coeruleus neurons in behaving rats anticipates fluctuations in the sleep-waking cycle

    G Aston-Jones;FE Bloom

  • Nucleus locus ceruleus: new evidence of anatomical and physiological specificity

    S. L. Foote;F. E. Bloom;G. Aston-Jones

  • Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system.

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Gary Aston-Jones;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • A role for lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward seeking

    Glenda C. Harris;Mathieu Wimmer;Gary Aston-Jones

  • Nonrepinephrine-containing locus coeruleus neurons in behaving rats exhibit pronounced responses to non-noxious environmental stimuli

    G Aston-Jones;FE Bloom

  • Role of locus coeruleus in attention and behavioral flexibility.

    Gary Aston-Jones;Janusz Rajkowski;Jonathan Cohen

  • Impulse activity of locus coeruleus neurons in awake rats and monkeys is a function of sensory stimulation and arousal

    S. L. Foote;G. Aston-Jones;F. E. Bloom

  • The Role of Locus Coeruleus in the Regulation of Cognitive Performance

    Marius Usher;Jonathan D. Cohen;David Servan-Schreiber;Janusz Rajkowski

  • Locus coeruleus neurons in monkey are selectively activated by attended cues in a vigilance task

    G Aston-Jones;J Rajkowski;P Kubiak;T Alexinsky

  • The brain nucleus locus coeruleus: restricted afferent control of a broad efferent network

    G Aston-Jones;M Ennis;VA Pieribone;WT Nickell

  • A neural circuit for circadian regulation of arousal

    Gary Aston-Jones;Sheng Chen;Yan Zhu;Michael L. Oshinsky

  • Corticotropin-releasing factor activates noradrenergic neurons of the locus coeruleus.

    Rita J. Valentino;Stephen L. Foote;Gary Aston-Jones

  • Discharge of noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons in behaving rats and monkeys suggests a role in vigilance.

    G. Aston-Jones;C. Chiang;T. Alexinsky

  • Adaptive gain and the role of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in optimal performance.

    Gary Aston-Jones;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Hypocretin (orexin) activation and synaptic innervation of the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system.

    Tamas L. Horvath;Christelle Peyron;Sabrina Diano;Alexander Ivanov

  • Afferent regulation of locus coeruleus neurons: anatomy, physiology and pharmacology

    G. Aston-Jones;M. T. Shipley;G. Chouvet;M. Ennis

  • Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot.

    Gina R. Poe;Stephen Foote;Oxana Eschenko;Joshua P. Johansen

  • Arousal and reward: a dichotomy in orexin function.

    Glenda C. Harris;Gary Aston-Jones

  • The anatomical and functional relationship between the P3 and autonomic components of the orienting response

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Eco J. De Geus;Gary Aston-Jones

  • Noradrenaline in the ventral forebrain is critical for opiate withdrawal-induced aversion

    J. M. Delfs;Y. Zhu;J. P. Druhan;G. Aston-Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
Rita J. Valentino
Rita J. Valentino National Institute on Drug Abuse
Vincent A. Pieribone
Vincent A. Pieribone Yale University
Michael T. Shipley
Michael T. Shipley University of Maryland, Baltimore
François Georges
François Georges University of Bordeaux
Floyd E. Bloom
Floyd E. Bloom Scripps Research Institute
Stephen L. Foote
Stephen L. Foote University of California, San Diego
Peter W. Kalivas
Peter W. Kalivas Medical University of South Carolina

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