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2327
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1101

Overview

Patricia H. Janak is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, social psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist has published a significant number of works addressing key topics such as neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, memory and neural mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and stress responses including cortisol-related studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • A quantitative reward prediction error signal in the ventral pallidum (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Consolidating the Circuit Model for Addiction (2021, Annual Review of Neuroscience)
  • Dopaminergic Regulation of Nucleus Accumbens Cholinergic Interneurons Demarcates Susceptibility to Cocaine Addiction (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Reward activity in ventral pallidum tracks satiety-sensitive preference and drives choice behavior (2020, Science Advances)
  • Mesostriatal dopamine is sensitive to changes in specific cue-reward contingencies (2024, Science Advances)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Kurt M. Fraser, Yifeng Cheng, David J. Ottenheimer, Robin Magnard, and Eric Garr, reflecting a network of scholarly interaction supporting their research efforts.

Publications are distributed notably in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology, and iScience, reflecting a focus on disseminating findings in high-impact and peer-reviewed journals.

Best Publications

  • From circuits to behaviour in the amygdala

    Patricia H. Janak;Kay M. Tye

  • A causal link between prediction errors, dopamine neurons and learning

    Elizabeth E Steinberg;Ronald Keiflin;Josiah R Boivin;Ilana B Witten

  • Recombinase-Driver Rat Lines: Tools, Techniques, and Optogenetic Application to Dopamine-Mediated Reinforcement

    Ilana B. Witten;Elizabeth E. Steinberg;Soo Yeun Lee;Thomas J. Davidson

  • Habitual Alcohol Seeking: Time Course and the Contribution of Subregions of the Dorsal Striatum

    Laura H. Corbit;Laura H. Corbit;Hong Nie;Patricia H. Janak

  • Dopamine Prediction Errors in Reward Learning and Addiction: From Theory to Neural Circuitry

    Ronald Keiflin;Patricia H. Janak;Patricia H. Janak

  • Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties.

    Benjamin T. Saunders;Jocelyn M. Richard;Jocelyn M. Richard;Elyssa B. Margolis;Patricia H. Janak

  • RACK1 and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: A Homeostatic Pathway That Regulates Alcohol Addiction

    Nancy N H McGough;Dao-Yao He;Marian L Logrip;Jerome Jeanblanc

  • General and outcome-specific forms of Pavlovian-instrumental transfer: the effect of shifts in motivational state and inactivation of the ventral tegmental area.

    Laura H. Corbit;Patricia H. Janak;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Rapid strengthening of thalamo-amygdala synapses mediates cue–reward learning

    Kay M. Tye;Garret D. Stuber;Bram de Ridder;Antonello Bonci

  • Anxiogenic and aversive effects of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the rat: role of CRF receptor subtypes

    Lacey L. Sahuque;Erika F. Kullberg;Andrew J. Mcgeehan;Jennifer R. Kinder

  • Substantial similarity in amygdala neuronal activity during conditioned appetitive and aversive emotional arousal

    Steven J. Shabel;Patricia H. Janak

  • Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Mediates the Desirable Actions of the Anti-Addiction Drug Ibogaine against Alcohol Consumption

    Dao-Yao He;Nancy N. H. McGough;Ajay Ravindranathan;Jerome Jeanblanc

  • Ethanol Induces Long-Term Facilitation of NR2B-NMDA Receptor Activity in the Dorsal Striatum: Implications for Alcohol Drinking Behavior

    Jun Wang;Sebastien Carnicella;Khanhky Phamluong;Jerome Jeanblanc

  • Separable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell in context- and cue-induced alcohol-seeking.

    Nadia Chaudhri;Lacey L Sahuque;William W Schairer;Patricia H Janak

  • Endogenous BDNF in the Dorsolateral Striatum Gates Alcohol Drinking

    Jerome Jeanblanc;Dao-Yao He;Sebastien Carnicella;Viktor Kharazia

  • Posterior dorsomedial striatum is critical for both selective instrumental and Pavlovian reward learning

    Laura H. Corbit;Patricia H. Janak

  • Disruption of alcohol-related memories by mTORC1 inhibition prevents relapse

    Segev Barak;Segev Barak;Feng Liu;Sami Ben Hamida;Quinn V Yowell

  • Comparison of the effects of allopregnanolone with direct GABAergic agonists on ethanol self-administration with and without concurrently available sucrose.

    Patricia H Janak;T Michael Gill

  • Positive reinforcement mediated by midbrain dopamine neurons requires D1 and D2 receptor activation in the nucleus accumbens.

    Elizabeth E. Steinberg;Josiah R. Boivin;Benjamin T. Saunders;Ilana Basya Witten

  • Context is a trigger for relapse to alcohol

    Isabella Zironi;Costanza Burattini;Giorgio Aicardi;Patricia H. Janak

  • Ethanol‐Associated Cues Produce General Pavlovian‐Instrumental Transfer

    Laura H. Corbit;Patricia H. Janak

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorit Ron
Dorit Ron University of California, San Francisco
Kay M. Tye
Kay M. Tye Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Donald J. Woodward
Donald J. Woodward University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Viktor Kharazia
Viktor Kharazia University of California, San Francisco
Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Robert O. Messing
Robert O. Messing The University of Texas at Austin
Ilana B. Witten
Ilana B. Witten Princeton University
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Christian Lüscher
Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Laurence H. Tecott
Laurence H. Tecott University of California, San Francisco

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