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9991
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7156
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Overview

Jeffrey Burgdorf is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed to a range of neuroscience and molecular biology research. Their scholarly work spans multiple aspects of neuropharmacology, behavioral neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience, reflecting a focus on understanding neural mechanisms and receptor signaling in brain function.

Their research output includes contributions to diverse topics such as:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

They have published in leading journals including:

  • Neuron
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Brain Structure and Function

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Jeffrey Burgdorf are:

  • "An IGFBP2-derived peptide promotes neuroplasticity and rescues deficits in a mouse model of Phelan-McDermid syndrome," 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Zelquistinel Is an Orally Bioavailable Novel NMDA Receptor Allosteric Modulator That Exhibits Rapid and Sustained Antidepressant-Like Effects," 2022, The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Shed CNTNAP2 ectodomain is detectable in CSF and regulates Ca2+ homeostasis and network synchrony via PMCA2/ATP2B2," 2021, Neuron
  • "Zelquistinel acts at an extracellular binding domain to modulate intracellular calcium inactivation of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors," 2024, Neuropharmacology

The co-authors frequently collaborating with Burgdorf include:

  • Joseph R. Moskal
  • Marc Dos Santos
  • Peter Penzes
  • Patric K. Stanton
  • John E. Donello

Their scientific contributions largely focus on several intersecting fields of study:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, their work emphasizes subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • The neurobiology of positive emotions.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp;Jaak Panksepp

  • Ultrasonic vocalizations as indices of affective states in rats.

    Brian Knutson;Jeffrey S Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp

  • "Laughing" rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy?

    Jaak Panksepp;Jeff Burgdorf

  • Anticipation of play elicits high-frequency ultrasonic vocalizations in young rats.

    Brian Knutson;Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp

  • Ultrasonic vocalizations of rats (Rattus norvegicus) during mating, play, and aggression: Behavioral concomitants, relationship to reward, and self-administration of playback.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Roger A. Kroes;Joseph R. Moskal;James G. Pfaus

  • Neurobiology of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats: Electrode mapping, lesion, and pharmacology studies

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Paul L. Wood;Roger A. Kroes;Joseph R. Moskal

  • 50-kHz chirping (laughter?) in response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats: effects of social housing and genetic variables.

    Jaak Panksepp;Jeffrey Burgdorf

  • Frequency-modulated 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations: a tool for uncovering the molecular substrates of positive affect.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp;Jaak Panksepp;Joseph R. Moskal

  • The role of brain emotional systems in addictions: a neuro-evolutionary perspective and new 'self-report' animal model.

    Jaak Panksepp;Brian Knutson;Jeff Burgdorf

  • Tickling induces reward in adolescent rats.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp

  • Nucleus accumbens amphetamine microinjections unconditionally elicit 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Brian Knutson;Brian Knutson;Jaak Panksepp;Satoshi Ikemoto

  • GLYX-13, a NMDA Receptor Glycine-Site Functional Partial Agonist, Induces Antidepressant-Like Effects Without Ketamine-Like Side Effects

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Xiao Lei Zhang;Katherine L. Nicholson;Robert L. Balster

  • Anticipation of rewarding electrical brain stimulation evokes ultrasonic vocalization in rats.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Brian Knutson;Brian Knutson;Jaak Panksepp

  • High-Frequency Ultrasonic Vocalizations Index Conditioned Pharmacological Reward in Rats

    Brian Knutson;Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp

  • Ultrasonic vocalizations induced by sex and amphetamine in M2, M4, M5 muscarinic and D2 dopamine receptor knockout mice.

    Haoran Wang;Shuyin Liang;Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jurgen Wess

  • GLYX-13, an NMDA receptor glycine site functional partial agonist enhances cognition and produces antidepressant effects without the psychotomimetic side effects of NMDA receptor antagonists.

    Joseph R Moskal;Ronald Burch;Jeffrey S Burgdorf;Roger A Kroes

  • Modeling ADHD-type arousal with unilateral frontal cortex damage in rats and beneficial effects of play therapy

    Jaak Panksepp;Jeff Burgdorf;Cortney Turner;Nakia Gordon

  • The effects of selective breeding for differential rates of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations on emotional behavior in rats.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp;Jaak Panksepp;Stefan M. Brudzynski;Margery C. Beinfeld

  • Breeding for 50-kHz positive affective vocalization in rats.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Jaak Panksepp;Jaak Panksepp;Stefan M. Brudzynski;Roger Kroes

  • The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor modulator GLYX-13 enhances learning and memory, in young adult and learning impaired aging rats.

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Xiao lei Zhang;Craig Weiss;Elizabeth Matthews

  • Evaluation of rat ultrasonic vocalizations as predictors of the conditioned aversive effects of drugs

    Jeffrey Burgdorf;Brian Knutson;Jaak Panksepp;Toni S. Shippenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University
Brian Knutson
Brian Knutson Stanford University
James G. Pfaus
James G. Pfaus Charles University

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