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Michelle S. Mazei-Robison

Michelle S. Mazei-Robison

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
7096
World Ranking
8504
National Ranking
3624

Overview

Michelle S. Mazei-Robison is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Physiology, and Social Psychology.

Their work covers several main topics including Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling.

The scientist has contributed extensively to academic journals, with frequent publications in venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Nature Communications, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, and Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Can I Get a Witness? Using Vicarious Defeat Stress to Study Mood-Related Illnesses in Traditionally Understudied Populations (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Circuit-specific hippocampal ΔFosB underlies resilience to stress-induced social avoidance (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Opioid-Induced Molecular and Cellular Plasticity of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons (2020, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine)
  • Sex Differences in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Preclinical Animal Models for the Study of Depression (2021, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology)
  • Enteric glial adenosine 2B receptor signaling mediates persistent epithelial barrier dysfunction following acute DSS colitis (2022, Mucosal Immunology)

Collaborative work forms a significant part of their research output, with frequent coauthors including Alfred J. Robison, Vedrana Bali, Marie A. Doyle, Cristina Rivera Quiles, and Andrew L. Eagle. These collaborations have contributed to a number of publications across their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons

    Dipesh Chaudhury;Jessica J. Walsh;Allyson K. Friedman;Barbara Juarez

  • Neurotrophic factors and structural plasticity in addiction.

    Scott J. Russo;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Jessica L. Ables;Eric J. Nestler

  • Prefrontal Cortical Circuit for Depression- and Anxiety-Related Behaviors Mediated by Cholecystokinin: Role of ΔFosB

    Vincent Vialou;Rosemary C. Bagot;Michael E. Cahill;Deveroux Ferguson

  • Nuclear factor kB signaling regulates neuronal morphology and cocaine reward

    Scott J. Russo;Matthew B. Wilkinson;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;David M. Dietz

  • β-catenin mediates stress resilience through Dicer1/microRNA regulation

    Caroline Dias;Jian Feng;Haosheng Sun;Ning Y.i. Shao

  • Reward Circuitry in Addiction.

    Sarah Cooper;A. J. Robison;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison

  • Stress and CRF gate neural activation of BDNF in the mesolimbic reward pathway

    Jessica J. Walsh;Allyson K. Friedman;Haosheng Sun;Elizabeth A. Heller

  • Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors.

    Elizabeth A. Heller;Hannah M. Cates;Catherine Jensen Pena;Haosheng Sun

  • BDNF Is a Negative Modulator of Morphine Action

    Ja Wook Koo;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Dipesh Chaudhury;Barbara Juarez

  • AKT signaling within the ventral tegmental area regulates cellular and behavioral responses to stressful stimuli.

    Vaishnav Krishnan;Ming Hu Han;Michelle Mazei-Robison;Sergio D. Iñiguez

  • Rac1 is essential in cocaine-induced structural plasticity of nucleus accumbens neurons

    David M Dietz;Haosheng Sun;Mary Kay Lobo;Michael E. Cahill

  • A novel role of the WNT-dishevelled-GSK3β signaling cascade in the mouse nucleus accumbens in a social defeat model of depression

    Matthew B. Wilkinson;Caroline Dias;Jane Magida;Michelle Mazei-Robison

  • Behavioral and structural responses to chronic cocaine require a feedforward loop involving ΔFosB and calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the nucleus accumbens shell.

    Alfred J. Robison;Vincent Vialou;Michelle Mazei-Robison;Jian Feng

  • ANOMALOUS DOPAMINE RELEASE ASSOCIATED WITH A HUMAN DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER CODING VARIANT

    Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Erica Bowton;Marion Holy;Martin Schmudermaier

  • 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

  • Enduring deficits in brain reward function after chronic social defeat in rats: susceptibility, resilience, and antidepressant response

    Andre Der-Avakian;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;James P. Kesby;Eric J. Nestler

  • Opiate-Induced Molecular and Cellular Plasticity of Ventral Tegmental Area and Locus Coeruleus Catecholamine Neurons

    Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Eric J. Nestler

  • Sequence variation in the human dopamine transporter gene in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;R. Steven Couch;Richard C. Shelton;Mark A. Stein

  • Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder-derived coding variation in the dopamine transporter disrupts microdomain targeting and trafficking regulation.

    Dhananjay Sakrikar;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Marc A. Mergy;Nathan W. Richtand

  • Epigenetic basis of opiate suppression of Bdnf gene expression in the ventral tegmental area

    Ja Wook Koo;Michelle S Mazei-Robison;Quincey LaPlant;Gabor Egervari

  • Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors

    Haosheng Sun;Ningyi Shao;Jian Feng;Michelle Mazei-Robison

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alfred J. Robison
Alfred J. Robison Michigan State University
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Scott J. Russo
Scott J. Russo Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Deveroux Ferguson
Deveroux Ferguson University of Arizona
David M. Dietz
David M. Dietz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Vincent Vialou
Vincent Vialou Sorbonne University
Jian Feng
Jian Feng University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Ming-Hu Han
Ming-Hu Han Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ja Wook Koo
Ja Wook Koo Korea Brain Research Institute

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