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Joseph F. Cheer is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as pharmacology and cognitive neuroscience. The work spans multiple subfields such as molecular biology and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to cannabis and cannabinoid research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, prenatal substance exposure effects, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Joseph F. Cheer has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Miguel Á. Luján, Miriam Melis, Kate Z. Peters, Natalie E. Zlebnik, and Lan-Yuan Zhang.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of notable venues, reflecting a range of interests in neuroscience and pharmacology. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Neuropharmacology, Trends in Neurosciences, and the Journal of Neuroscience.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Joseph F. Cheer include:

  • Modulating the Neuromodulators: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Endocannabinoid System, 2021, Trends in Neurosciences
  • A fast genetically encoded fluorescent sensor for faithful in vivo acetylcholine detection in mice, fish, worms and flies, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Local modulation by presynaptic receptors controls neuronal communication and behaviour, 2022, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • A Brain on Cannabinoids: The Role of Dopamine Release in Reward Seeking and Addiction, 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex Signals Attention in a Social Paradigm that Manipulates Reward and Shock, 2020, Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Selective activation of cholinergic interneurons enhances accumbal phasic dopamine release: setting the tone for reward processing

    Roger Cachope;Yolanda Mateo;Brian N. Mathur;James Irving

  • Real-time measurement of dopamine fluctuations after cocaine in the brain of behaving rats

    Michael L. A. V. Heien;Amina S. Khan;Jennifer L. Ariansen;Joseph F. Cheer

  • Ventral hippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens regulate susceptibility to depression

    Rosemary C. Bagot;Eric M. Parise;Catherine J. Peña;Hong-Xing Zhang

  • Cannabinoids Enhance Subsecond Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens of Awake Rats

    Joseph F. Cheer;Kate M. Wassum;Michael L. A. V. Heien;Paul E. M. Phillips

  • Phasic dopamine release evoked by abused substances requires cannabinoid receptor activation.

    Joseph F. Cheer;Kate M. Wassum;Leslie A. Sombers;Michael L A V Heien

  • Subsecond Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Conditioned Punishment and Its Successful Avoidance

    Erik B. Oleson;Ronny N. Gentry;Vivian C. Chioma;Joseph F. Cheer

  • ΔFosB Induction in Striatal Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes in Response to Chronic Pharmacological, Emotional, and Optogenetic Stimuli

    Mary Kay Lobo;Samir Zaman;Diane M. Damez-Werno;Ja Wook Koo

  • The endocannabinoid system as a target for novel anxiolytic drugs

    Sachin Patel;Mathew N. Hill;Joseph F. Cheer;Carsten T. Wotjak

  • Coordinated Accumbal Dopamine Release and Neural Activity Drive Goal-Directed Behavior

    Joseph F. Cheer;Brandon J. Aragona;Michael L.A.V. Heien;Andrew T. Seipel

  • Cannabinoid receptors and reward in the rat: a conditioned place preference study

    Joseph F Cheer;D A Kendall;C A Marsden

  • Dopamine release is heterogeneous within microenvironments of the rat nucleus accumbens

    R. Mark Wightman;Michael L A V Heien;Kate M. Wassum;Leslie A. Sombers

  • A Brain on Cannabinoids: The Role of Dopamine Release in Reward Seeking

    Erik B. Oleson;Joseph F. Cheer

  • Local control of striatal dopamine release.

    Roger Cachope;Roger Cachope;Joseph F. Cheer

  • Endocannabinoid modulation of dopamine neurotransmission.

    Dan P. Covey;Yolanda Mateo;David Sulzer;Joseph F. Cheer

  • Endocannabinoids shape accumbal encoding of cue-motivated behavior via CB1 receptor activation in the ventral tegmentum

    Erik B. Oleson;Michael V. Beckert;Joshua T. Morra;Carien S. Lansink

  • Dynamic changes in accumbens dopamine correlate with learning during intracranial self-stimulation

    Catarina A. Owesson-White;Joseph F. Cheer;Manna Beyene;Regina M. Carelli

  • Modification of 5-HT2 receptor mediated behaviour in the rat by oleamide and the role of cannabinoid receptors.

    J.F Cheer;A.-K Cadogan;C.A Marsden;K.C.F Fone

  • Role for mTOR Signaling and Neuronal Activity in Morphine-Induced Adaptations in Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons

    Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Ja Wook Koo;Allyson K. Friedman;Carien S. Lansink

  • Simultaneous dopamine and single-unit recordings reveal accumbens GABAergic responses: Implications for intracranial self-stimulation

    Joseph F. Cheer;Michael L. A. V. Heien;Paul A. Garris;Regina M. Carelli

  • Dorsal Raphe Dual Serotonin-Glutamate Neurons Drive Reward by Establishing Excitatory Synapses on VTA Mesoaccumbens Dopamine Neurons.

    Hui Ling Wang;Shiliang Zhang;Jia Qi;Huikun Wang

  • Neural encoding of cocaine-seeking behavior is coincident with phasic dopamine release in the accumbens core and shell

    Catarina A. Owesson-White;Jennifer Ariansen;Garret D. Stuber;Nathan A. Cleaveland

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Geoffrey Schoenbaum National Institutes of Health
Regina M. Carelli
Regina M. Carelli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Miriam Melis
Miriam Melis University of Cagliari
Ming-Hu Han
Ming-Hu Han Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Paul E. M. Phillips
Paul E. M. Phillips University of Washington
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mary Kay Lobo
Mary Kay Lobo University of Maryland, Baltimore
Matthew R. Roesch
Matthew R. Roesch University of Maryland, College Park
Roberto Frau
Roberto Frau University of Cagliari
Paola Devoto
Paola Devoto University of Cagliari

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