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Mark O. West is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience, with significant contributions to subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work spans several main topics in neuroscience, notably:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Mark O. West has published research articles in a variety of scientific journals and venues, including Addiction Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience, Brain Sciences, Psychopharmacology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by West include:

  • "Chronic Fentanyl Self-Administration Generates a Shift toward Negative Affect in Rats during Drug Use," 2021, Brain Sciences
  • "Emergence of Negative Affect as Motivation for Drug Taking in Rats Chronically Self-Administering Cocaine," 2020, Psychopharmacology
  • "Acquired Alterations in Nucleus Accumbens Responsiveness to a Cocaine-Paired Discriminative Stimulus Preceding Rats' Daily Cocaine Consumption," 2023, Addiction Neuroscience
  • "Reward versus Motoric Activations in Nucleus Accumbens Core of Rats during Pavlovian Conditioning," 2022, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Lateral Preoptic Area Neurons Signal Cocaine Self-Administration Behaviors," 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Frequently collaborating co-authors associated with West's work include Nicholas J. Beacher, Anthony P. Pawlak, Kevin R. Coffey, David J. Barker, and Samuel D. Klein.

Their academic output emphasizes research on behavioral influences of neurotransmitter receptors, signaling pathways related to addiction and motivation, and the neural mechanisms underlying drug self-administration behavior in animal models.

Best Publications

  • Representation of the body by single neurons in the dorsolateral striatum of the awake, unrestrained rat.

    Regina M. Carelli;Mark O. West

  • A region in the dorsolateral striatum of the rat exhibiting single-unit correlations with specific locomotor limb movements.

    M. O. West;R. M. Carelli;M. Pomerantz;S. M. Cohen

  • Phasic Firing of Single Neurons in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Correlated with the Timing of Intravenous Cocaine Self-Administration

    Laura L. Peoples;Mark O. West

  • Persistent Cue-Evoked Activity of Accumbens Neurons after Prolonged Abstinence from Self-Administered Cocaine

    Udi E. Ghitza;Anthony T. Fabbricatore;Volodymyr Prokopenko;Anthony P. Pawlak

  • Stimulation-dependent release of 3H-adenosine derivatives from central axon terminals to target neurones.

    Peter Schubert;Kevin Lee;Mark West;Sam Deadwyler

  • Activity of dentate granule cells during learning: Differentiation of perforant path input

    Sam A. Deadwyler;Sam A. Deadwyler;Mark West;Gary Lynch

  • Changes in activity of the striatum during formation of a motor habit

    Chengke Tang;Anthony P. Pawlak;Volodymyr Prokopenko;Mark O. West

  • Loss of lever press-related firing of rat striatal forelimb neurons after repeated sessions in a lever pressing task

    Regina M. Carelli;Martin Wolske;Mark O. West

  • Entorhinal and septal inputs differentially control sensory-evoked responses in the rat dentate gyrus

    Sam A. Deadwyler;Mark O. West;John H. Robinson

  • Operant behavior during sessions of intravenous cocaine infusion is necessary and sufficient for phasic firing of single nucleus accumbens neurons

    Laura L Peoples;Anthony J Uzwiak;Fred Gee;Mark O West

  • Phasic firing time locked to cocaine self-infusion and locomotion: dissociable firing patterns of single nucleus accumbens neurons in the rat.

    Laura L. Peoples;Fred Gee;Racquel Bibi;Mark O. West

  • Sequence-related changes in sensory-evoked potentials in the dentate gyrus: A mechanism for item-specific short-term information storage in the hippocampus

    Sam A. Deadwyler;Mark O. West;Edward P. Christian;Robert E. Hampson

  • ANESTHETICS ELIMINATE SOMATOSENSORY-EVOKED DISCHARGES OF NEURONS IN THE SOMATOTOPICALLY ORGANIZED SENSORIMOTOR STRIATUM OF THE RAT

    Mark O. West

  • Dose-dependent differences in short ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by rats during cocaine self-administration

    David J. Barker;David H. Root;Sisi Ma;Shaili Jha

  • A microdrive for use with glass or metal microelectrodes in recording from freely-moving rats ☆

    Sam A Deadwyler;Josef Biela;Greg Rose;Mark West

  • Evoked potentials in the dentate gyrus reflect the retention of past sensory events.

    Mark O. West;Edward Christian;John H. Robinson;Sam A. Deadwyler

  • Differences between accumbens core and shell neurons exhibiting phasic firing patterns related to drug-seeking behavior during a discriminative-stimulus task

    Udi E. Ghitza;Anthony T. Fabbricatore;Volodymyr F. Prokopenko;Mark O. West

  • Distributions of single neurons related to body parts in the lateral striatum of the rat

    Jeiwon Cho;Mark O West

  • Ultrasonic Vocalizations as a Measure of Affect in Preclinical Models of Drug Abuse: A Review of Current Findings

    David J. Barker;Steven J. Simmons;Mark O. West

  • Tonic inhibition of single nucleus accumbens neurons in the rat: a predominant but not exclusive firing pattern induced by cocaine self-administration sessions.

    L. L. Peoples;A. J. Uzwiak;F. X. Guyette;Mark West

  • Tonic firing of rat nucleus accumbens neurons: changes during the first 2 weeks of daily cocaine self-administration sessions.

    Laura L. Peoples;Anthony J. Uzwiak;Fred Gee;Mark O. West

Frequent Co-Authors

Sam A. Deadwyler
Sam A. Deadwyler Wake Forest University
Regina M. Carelli
Regina M. Carelli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Donald J. Woodward
Donald J. Woodward University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Robert E. Hampson
Robert E. Hampson Wake Forest University
Thomas C. Foster
Thomas C. Foster University of Florida
Patricia K. Sonsalla
Patricia K. Sonsalla Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John K. Chapin
John K. Chapin State University of New York

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