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Michael T. Bardo is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with an emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as behavioral neuroscience. Molecular biology, social psychology, and biological psychiatry are also among their notable subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers several main topics within neuroscience, including:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neuropeptides and animal physiology

Michael T. Bardo has contributed extensively to scientific literature, publishing a significant number of papers in journals such as Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Psychopharmacology, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuropharmacology, and Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Specifically, their frequent publication venues include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Recent publications by Michael T. Bardo include:

  • Effect of early life social adversity on drug abuse vulnerability: Focus on corticotropin-releasing factor and oxytocin, 2021, Neuropharmacology
  • Escalation and reinstatement of fentanyl self-administration in male and female rats, 2021, Psychopharmacology
  • Primed for addiction: A critical review of the role of microglia in the neurodevelopmental consequences of adolescent alcohol drinking, 2021, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Opposite regulation of conditioned place preference and intravenous drug self-administration in rodent models: Motivational and non-motivational examples, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Nicotine and opioid co-dependence: Findings from bench research to clinical trials, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

The scientist regularly collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Jakob D. Shaykin
  • Cassie M. Chandler
  • Samantha G. Malone
  • Jill Turner
  • Emily D. Denehy

Best Publications

  • Conditioned place preference: What does it add to our preclinical understanding of drug reward?

    M. T. Bardo;Rick A. Bevins

  • Psychobiology of novelty seeking and drug seeking behavior

    M.T. Bardo;R.L. Donohew;N.G. Harrington

  • Conditioned place preference using opiate and stimulant drugs: A meta-analysis

    M.T. Bardo;J.K. Rowlett;M.J. Harris

  • Neuropharmacological mechanisms of drug reward: beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens.

    Michael T. Bardo

  • Environmental enrichment decreases intravenous self-administration of amphetamine in female and male rats.

    M T Bardo;J E Klebaur;J M Valone;C Deaton

  • Regional and temporal differences in real-time dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens during free-choice novelty

    George V Rebec;John R.C Christensen;Cristiano Guerra;Michael T Bardo

  • Review of the pharmacology and clinical profile of bupropion, an antidepressant and tobacco use cessation agent.

    Linda P. Dwoskin;Anthony S. Rauhut;Kelley A. King-Pospisil;Michael T. Bardo

  • Neurobehavioral effects of environmental enrichment and drug abuse vulnerability.

    Dustin J. Stairs;Michael T. Bardo

  • Transient increases in catecholaminergic activity in medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens shell during novelty.

    G.V Rebec;C.P Grabner;M Johnson;R.C Pierce

  • Locomotor and rewarding effects of amphetamine in enriched, social, and isolate reared rats.

    S.L. Bowling;M.T. Bardo

  • The effect of environmental enrichment on amphetamine-stimulated locomotor activity, dopamine synthesis and dopamine release

    Shana L. Bowling;James K. Rowlett;Michael T. Bardo

  • Prefrontal cortex and drug abuse vulnerability: translation to prevention and treatment interventions.

    Jennifer L. Perry;Jane E. Joseph;Yang Jiang;Rick S. Zimmerman;Rick S. Zimmerman

  • Environmental enrichment decreases intravenous amphetamine self-administration in rats: dose-response functions for fixed- and progressive-ratio schedules.

    Thomas Green;B. J. Gehrke;M. T. Bardo

  • Environmental Enrichment Produces a Behavioral Phenotype Mediated by Low Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Response Element Binding (CREB) Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens

    Thomas A. Green;Imran N. Alibhai;C. Nathaniel Roybal;Catharine A. Winstanley

  • Environmental enrichment attenuates locomotor sensitization, but not in vitro dopamine release, induced by amphetamine

    M.T Bardo;S.L Bowling;J.K Rowlett;P Manderscheid

  • Autoradiographic localization of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in rat nucleus accumbens: resistance to differential rearing conditions.

    M.T. Bardo;R.P. Hammer

  • Impulsive choice and environmental enrichment: effects of d-amphetamine and methylphenidate.

    Jennifer L. Perry;Dustin J. Stairs;Michael T. Bardo

  • Individual Differences and Social Influences on the Neurobehavioral Pharmacology of Abused Drugs

    Michael T. Bardo;Janet Neisewander;T. H. Kelly

  • Individual differences in behavioral responses to novelty and amphetamine self-administration in male and female rats.

    J. E. Klebaur;Rick A. Bevins;T. M. Segar;M. T. Bardo

  • Lobeline attenuates d-methamphetamine self-administration in rats.

    Steven B. Harrod;Linda P. Dwoskin;Peter A. Crooks;Jennifer E. Klebaur

  • Novelty seeking, incentive salience and acquisition of cocaine self-administration in the rat

    Joshua S. Beckmann;Julie A. Marusich;Cassandra D. Gipson;Michael T. Bardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda P. Dwoskin
Linda P. Dwoskin University of Kentucky
Rick A. Bevins
Rick A. Bevins University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Thomas A. Green
Thomas A. Green The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Kimberly Nixon
Kimberly Nixon The University of Texas at Austin
George V. Rebec
George V. Rebec Indiana University
Rick S. Zimmerman
Rick S. Zimmerman Wayne State University
J. Michael McIntosh
J. Michael McIntosh University of Utah
Craig R. Rush
Craig R. Rush University of Kentucky
Robert J. Blanchard
Robert J. Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette

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