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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Klaus A. Miczek was affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research contributions focused primarily on neuroscience and related molecular biology fields, with a total of 24 publications in neuroscience and 9 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spanned multiple subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, behavioral neuroscience, pharmacology, and social psychology.

Their main research topics involved neurobiological mechanisms, with a significant emphasis on:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol regulation
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Cannabis and cannabinoid research
  • Forensic toxicology and drug analysis

The scientist published frequently in the journal Psychopharmacology, totaling five publications, as well as in The FASEB Journal and bioRxiv with two publications each. They also published works in Nature Neuroscience and ACS Chemical Neuroscience among others.

Some of Klaus A. Miczek's notable recent papers include:

  • Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience, 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • KVA-D-88, a Novel Preferable Phosphodiesterase 4B Inhibitor, Decreases Cocaine-Mediated Reward Properties in Vivo, 2020, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Hypoactive Thalamic Crh+ Cells in a Female Mouse Model of Alcohol Drinking After Social Trauma, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Neurobiological Bases of Alcohol Consumption After Social Stress, 2021, Current topics in behavioral neurosciences
  • The neutral CB1 antagonist AM6527 reduces ethanol seeking, binge-like consumption, reinforcing, and withdrawal effects in male and female mice, 2023, Psychopharmacology

Klaus A. Miczek collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Michael Z. Leonard
  • Herbert E. Covington
  • Emily L. Newman
  • Naz Akdilek
  • Junghyup Suh

In addition to journal articles, Miczek authored or contributed to a book titled Neuroscience of Social Stress published in 2022 by Springer Science+Business Media.

Their work received recognition within the academic community, evidenced by fellowships awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006 and the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Social defeat stress selectively alters mesocorticolimbic dopamine release: an in vivo microdialysis study

    Jennifer W. Tidey;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Social and neural determinants of aggressive behavior: pharmacotherapeutic targets at serotonin, dopamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid systems.

    Klaus A Miczek;Eric W Fish;Joseph F De Bold;Rosa M M De Almeida

  • Aggressive behavioral phenotypes in mice.

    Klaus A Miczek;Stephen C Maxson;Eric W Fish;Sara Faccidomo

  • Essential Roles for the Abl and Arg Tyrosine Kinases in Neurulation

    Anthony J Koleske;Ann M Gifford;Martin L Scott;Michelle Nee

  • Opioid-like analgesia in defeated mice

    Klaus A. Miczek;Michael L. Thompson;Louis Shuster

  • A new test for aggression in rats without aversive stimulation: differential effects of d-amphetamine and cocaine.

    Klaus A. Miczek

  • Repeated social-defeat stress, cocaine or morphine. Effects on behavioral sensitization and intravenous cocaine self-administration "binges".

    Herbert E. Covington;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Aggressive behavior, increased accumbal dopamine, and decreased cortical serotonin in rats.

    A. M. van Erp;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Escalated aggressive behavior: dopamine, serotonin and GABA.

    Rosa M.M. de Almeida;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Stefano Parmigiani;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Corticotropin-releasing factor antagonist reduces emotionality in socially defeated rats via direct neurotropic action.

    Stephen C. Heinrichs;Emilio Merlo Pich;Klaus A. Miczek;Karen T. Britton

  • Social stress, therapeutics and drug abuse : Preclinical models of escalated and depressed intake

    Klaus A. Miczek;Jasmine J. Yap;Herbert E. Covington

  • The Role of Corticotropin‐Releasing Factor in Behavioural Responses to Stress

    George F. Koob;Stephen C. Heinrichs;Emilio Merlo Pich;Frédérique Menzaghi

  • Long-term impairment of autonomic circadian rhythms after brief intermittent social stress.

    Walter Tornatzky;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Increased phasic dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic pathway during social defeat in rats.

    Kristin K. Anstrom;Klaus A. Miczek;Evgeny A. Budygin

  • Intruder-evoked aggression in isolated and nonisolated mice: Effects of psychomotor stimulants and l -Dopa

    Klaus A. Miczek;James M. O'Donnell

  • Persistent escalation of alcohol drinking in C57BL/6J mice with intermittent access to 20% ethanol.

    Lara S. Hwa;Adam Chu;Sally A. Levinson;Tala M. Kayyali

  • Accumbal dopamine and serotonin in anticipation of the next aggressive episode in rats

    P. F. Ferrari;A. M. M. Van Erp;W. Tornatzky;K. A. Miczek

  • Ventral tegmental area dopamine revisited: effects of acute and repeated stress

    Elizabeth N. Holly;Elizabeth N. Holly;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Intraspecies aggression in rats: effects of d-amphetamine and chlordiazepoxide.

    Klaus A. Miczek

  • Neurobiology of escalated aggression and violence.

    Klaus A. Miczek;Renan Moritz Varnier Rodrigues de Almeida;E. A. Kravitz;Emilie F. Rissman

  • Aggression, anxiety and vocalizations in animals: GABAA and 5-HT anxiolytics

    K. A. Miczek;E. M. Weerts;J. A. Vivian;H. M. Barros

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Haney
Margaret Haney Columbia University
Jennifer W. Tidey
Jennifer W. Tidey Brown University
Berend Olivier
Berend Olivier Utrecht University
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
James M. Cook
James M. Cook University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Stefano Parmigiani
Stefano Parmigiani University of Parma
Stephen C. Heinrichs
Stephen C. Heinrichs Boston College
Emilio Merlo Pich
Emilio Merlo Pich GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Harriet de Wit
Harriet de Wit University of Chicago
Sietse F. de Boer
Sietse F. de Boer University of Groningen

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