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Kathleen M. Kantak

Kathleen M. Kantak

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Neuroscience

D-Index
35
Citations
4112
World Ranking
9231
National Ranking
3897

Psychology

D-Index
32
Citations
3104
World Ranking
11015
National Ranking
5738

Overview

Kathleen M. Kantak is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and focuses primarily on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, and physiology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Bioinformatics and genomic networks

Kantak has contributed to a number of publications in well-known scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Trends in Genetics
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kantak include:

  • Rodent models of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: An updated framework for model validation and therapeutic drug discovery (2022) in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
  • Adolescent-onset vs. adult-onset cocaine use: Impact on cognitive functioning in animal models and opportunities for translation (2020) in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
  • Facilitating Complex Trait Analysis via Reduced Complexity Crosses (2020) in Trends in Genetics

Other papers related to Kantak's collaborative environment include:

  • Facilitative effects of environmental enrichment for cocaine relapse prevention are dependent on extinction training context and involve increased TrkB signaling in dorsal hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (2020) in Behavioural Brain Research
  • Aging-induced microbleeds of the mouse thalamus compared to sensorimotor and memory defects (2020) in Neurobiology of Aging

Kantak frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Camron D. Bryant
  • Elon Mathieson
  • Heng-Ye Man
  • Jamie M. Gauthier
  • Carissa Stots

The scope of Kantak's research engages with detailed mechanisms of neurotransmitter receptors affecting behavior, neural memory processes, and the genetic underpinnings related to animal and plant diversity. Their work integrates experimental models in cognitive neuroscience and molecular neuroscience with applications important to understanding pharmacological effects and therapeutic strategies.

Best Publications

  • Efficacy of a therapeutic cocaine vaccine in rodent models

    Barbara S. Fox;Kathleen M. Kantak;Melissa A. Edwards;Kerry M. Black

  • Dissociable effects of lidocaine inactivation of the rostral and caudal basolateral amygdala on the maintenance and reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior in rats.

    Kathleen M. Kantak;Yolanda Black;Eric Valencia;Kristen Green-Jordan

  • Evaluation of anti-cocaine antibodies and a cocaine vaccine in a rat self-administration model.

    K. M. Kantak;S. L. Collins;E. G. Lipman;J. Bond

  • Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Medication Effects, Glucocorticoids, and Attenuated Treatment Outcomes

    Michael W. Otto;R. Kathryn McHugh;Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Context-dependent prefrontal cortex regulation of cocaine self-administration and reinstatement behaviors in rats.

    Nina C. Di Pietro;Yolanda D. Black;Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Advancing the spontaneous hypertensive rat model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    K. M. Kantak;T. Singh;K. A. Kerstetter;K. A. Dembro

  • D-cycloserine deters reacquisition of cocaine self-administration by augmenting extinction learning.

    Bríd Á Nic Dhonnchadha;Jonathan J Szalay;Cindy Achat-Mendes;Donna M Platt

  • Methylphenidate treatment in adolescent rats with an attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder phenotype: cocaine addiction vulnerability and dopamine transporter function.

    Roxann C Harvey;Sucharita Sen;Agripina Deaciuc;Linda P Dwoskin

  • Hippocampal memory system function and the regulation of cocaine self-administration behavior in rats

    Yolanda D Black;Kristen Green-Jordan;Howard B Eichenbaum;Kathleen M Kantak

  • Time course of changes in cocaine self-administration behavior in rats during immunization with the cocaine vaccine IPC-1010

    Kathleen M. Kantak;Stephanie L. Collins;Julian Bond;Barbara S. Fox

  • Effects of dietary supplements and a tryptophan-free diet on aggressive behavior in rats.

    Kathleen M. Kantak;Linda R. Hegstrand;James Whitman;Burr Eichelman

  • Vaccines against drugs of abuse: a viable treatment option?

    Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Cognitive task performance after lidocaine-induced inactivation of different sites within the basolateral amygdala and dorsal striatum.

    Kathleen M. Kantak;Kristen Green-Jordan;Eric Valencia;Terry Kremin

  • Facilitation of shock-induced fighting following intraventricular 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine and 6-hydroxydopa.

    Kathleen M. Kantak;Linda R. Hegstrand;Burr Eichelman

  • Interaction of the rostral basolateral amygdala and prelimbic prefrontal cortex in regulating reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior.

    Yasmin Mashhoon;Audrey M. Wells;Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Magnesium deficiency alters aggressive behavior and catecholamine function.

    Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Cognitive enhancers for facilitating drug cue extinction: insights from animal models.

    Bríd Áine Nic Dhonnchadha;Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Influence of sex, estrous cycle, and drug-onset age on cocaine self-administration in rats (Rattus norvegicus).

    Kathleen M Kantak;Claudia M Goodrich;Valeria Uribe

  • Complementary tasks to measure working memory in distinct prefrontal cortex subregions in rats.

    Nina C. Di Pietro;Yolanda D. Black;Kristen Green-Jordan;Howard B. Eichenbaum

  • Hippocampal regulation of contextual cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior.

    Alison Lynn Atkins;Yasmin Mashhoon;Kathleen M Kantak

  • Dietary tryptophan reversal of septal lesion and 5,7-DHT lesion elicited shock-induced fighting.

    Kathleen M. Kantak;Linda R. Hegstrand;Burr Eichelman

  • Effects of serotonin receptor agonists and antagonists on offensive aggression in mice

    Tone Lindgren;Kathleen M. Kantak

  • Differential effects of self-administered cocaine in adolescent and adult rats on stimulus-reward learning.

    Kerry A. Kerstetter;Kathleen M. Kantak

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda P. Dwoskin
Linda P. Dwoskin University of Kentucky
Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum Boston University
Stefan G. Hofmann
Stefan G. Hofmann Philipp University of Marburg
Michael T. Bardo
Michael T. Bardo University of Kentucky
Michael Otto
Michael Otto National Institutes of Health
Klaus A. Miczek
Klaus A. Miczek Tufts University
R. Kathryn McHugh
R. Kathryn McHugh Harvard University
Jasper A. J. Smits
Jasper A. J. Smits The University of Texas at Austin
Thilo Deckersbach
Thilo Deckersbach Harvard University
Robert W. Williams
Robert W. Williams University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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