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Jennifer L. Cornish

Jennifer L. Cornish

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Neuroscience

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41
Citations
5700
World Ranking
7927
National Ranking
232

Overview

Jennifer L. Cornish is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Other subfields include endocrine and autonomic systems as well as behavioral neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Cannabis and cannabinoid research

Jennifer L. Cornish has published extensively in a variety of venues, with notable frequent journals being:

  • Psychopharmacology
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Frontiers in Global Women s Health
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Cornish include:

  • "The vagus nerve mediates the suppressing effects of peripherally administered oxytocin on methamphetamine self-administration and seeking in rats," 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Sex Differences in Substance Use Disorders: A Neurobiological Perspective," 2021, Frontiers in Global Women s Health
  • "Maternal separation changes maternal care, anxiety-like behaviour and expression of paraventricular oxytocin and corticotrophin-releasing factor immunoreactivity in lactating rats," 2020, Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • "Sign tracking predicts cue-induced but not drug-primed reinstatement to methamphetamine seeking in rats: Effects of oxytocin treatment," 2020, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • "Differential effects of GABAA receptor activation in the prelimbic and orbitofrontal cortices on anxiety," 2020, Psychopharmacology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cornish include:

  • Nicholas A. Everett
  • Sarah J. Baracz
  • A Turner
  • Katherine J. Robinson
  • Priscila A. Costa

Best Publications

  • Glutamate Transmission in the Nucleus Accumbens Mediates Relapse in Cocaine Addiction

    Jennifer L. Cornish;Peter W. Kalivas

  • A role for nucleus accumbens glutamate transmission in the relapse to cocaine-seeking behavior.

    J.L. Cornish;P. Duffy;P.W. Kalivas

  • A role for sensitization in craving and relapse in cocaine addiction

    Peter W. Kalivas;R. Chris Pierce;Jennifer Cornish;Barbara A. Sorg

  • A role for oxytocin and 5-HT1A receptors in the prosocial effects of 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (“ecstasy”)

    M.R. Thompson;P.D. Callaghan;G.E. Hunt;J.L. Cornish

  • The roles of dopamine and related compounds in reward-seeking behavior across animal phyla.

    Andrew B. Barron;Eirik Søvik;Jennifer L. Cornish

  • Oxytocin decreases methamphetamine self-administration, methamphetamine hyperactivity, and relapse to methamphetamine-seeking behaviour in rats.

    Dean S. Carson;Jennifer L. Cornish;Adam J. Guastella;Glenn E. Hunt

  • Systemically administered oxytocin decreases methamphetamine activation of the subthalamic nucleus and accumbens core and stimulates oxytocinergic neurons in the hypothalamus

    Dean S. Carson;Glenn E. Hunt;Adam J. Guastella;Lachlan Barber

  • Cocaine sensitization and craving: differing roles for dopamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens.

    Jennifer L. Cornish;Peter W. Kalivas

  • Increased anxiety and "depressive" symptoms months after MDMA ("ecstasy") in rats: drug-induced hyperthermia does not predict long-term outcomes.

    Iain S. McGregor;Clint G. Gurtman;Kirsten C. Morley;Kelly J. Clemens

  • A Comparison of Methamphetamine-Induced Psychosis and Schizophrenia: A Review of Positive, Negative, and Cognitive Symptomatology.

    Travis A. Wearne;Jennifer L. Cornish

  • Chronic fluoxetine treatment partly attenuates the long-term anxiety and depressive symptoms induced by MDMA ('Ecstasy') in rats.

    Murray R Thompson;Kong M Li;Kelly J Clemens;Clint G Gurtman

  • Mdma ('Ecstasy'), Methamphetamine And Their Combination: Long-Term Changes In Social Interaction And Neurochemistry In The Rat

    Kelly J. Clemens;Petra S. van Nieuwenhuyzen;Kong M. Li;Jennifer L. Cornish

  • Oxytocin directly administered into the nucleus accumbens core or subthalamic nucleus attenuates methamphetamine-induced conditioned place preference.

    Sarah J. Baracz;Poppy I. Rourke;Margery C. Pardey;Glenn E. Hunt

  • Heat increases 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine self-administration and social effects in rats.

    Jennifer L. Cornish;Zeeshan Shahnawaz;Murray R. Thompson;Suzanna Wong

  • Pharmacotherapeutic agents in the treatment of methamphetamine dependence.

    Kirsten C. Morley;Jennifer L. Cornish;Alon Faingold;Katie Wood

  • High levels of intravenous mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) self-administration in rats: Neural consequences and comparison with methamphetamine

    Craig P Motbey;Kelly J Clemens;Nadine Apetz;Adam R Winstock

  • Repeated weekly exposure to MDMA, methamphetamine or their combination : Long-term behavioural and neurochemical effects in rats

    Kelly J. Clemens;Jennifer L. Cornish;Glenn E. Hunt;Iain S. McGregor

  • Oxytocin in the nucleus accumbens core reduces reinstatement of methamphetamine-seeking behaviour in rats

    Sarah J. Baracz;Nicholas A. Everett;Iain S. McGregor;Jennifer L. Cornish

  • Cannabidiol treatment reduces the motivation to self-administer methamphetamine and methamphetamine-primed relapse in rats

    Gracie L Hay;Sarah J Baracz;Sarah J Baracz;Nicholas A Everett;Jessica Roberts

  • Behavioral and Neural Substrates of Habit Formation in Rats Intravenously Self-Administering Nicotine

    Kelly J Clemens;Matthew R Castino;Jennifer L Cornish;Ann K Goodchild

  • Pre-exposure to the cannabinoid receptor agonist CP 55,940 enhances morphine behavioral sensitization and alters morphine self-administration in Lewis rats

    Christy S Norwood;Jennifer L Cornish;Paul E Mallet;Iain S McGregor

  • Effects of acute and chronic systemic methamphetamine on respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic function, and cardiorespiratory reflexes.

    Sarah F. Hassan;Travis A. Wearne;Jennifer L. Cornish;Ann K. Goodchild

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann K. Goodchild
Ann K. Goodchild Macquarie University
Peter W. Kalivas
Peter W. Kalivas Medical University of South Carolina
Maarten van den Buuse
Maarten van den Buuse La Trobe University
Peter G. Enticott
Peter G. Enticott Deakin University
Adam J. Guastella
Adam J. Guastella University of Sydney
Sarah E. Medland
Sarah E. Medland QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney
Lyn R. Griffiths
Lyn R. Griffiths Queensland University of Technology
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Sharath Sriram
Sharath Sriram RMIT University

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