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Patricia S. Grigson is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple papers primarily focused on the intersections of neuroscience, endocrinology, and behavioral pharmacology. The scientist has contributed to studies examining neuropeptides, diabetes treatment, and the neurochemical mechanisms influencing addictive behaviors.

Grigson's recent publications include research on drug-seeking behaviors and treatments related to opioid addiction as well as metabolic conditions such as diabetes. Notable papers are:

  • Diabetes, Drug Treatment, and Mortality in COVID-19: A Multinational Retrospective Cohort Study (2021, Diabetes)
  • Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, exendin-4, reduces reinstatement of heroin-seeking behavior in rats (2020, Behavioural Pharmacology)
  • Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, liraglutide, reduces heroin self-administration and drug-induced reinstatement of heroin-seeking behaviour in rats (2021, Addiction Biology)
  • Acute glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist liraglutide prevents cue-, stress-, and drug-induced heroin-seeking in rats (2022, Behavioural Pharmacology)
  • Acute treatment with the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, liraglutide, reduces cue- and drug-induced fentanyl seeking in rats (2022, Brain Research Bulletin)

The main fields of study for Grigson include Neuroscience and Medicine, with specific subdivisions in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Physiology.

Their work extensively covers topics such as:

  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Grigson include Jennifer E. Nyland, Joaquin E. Douton, Nikhil Acharya, Nazia Raja-Khan, and Brooke Stoltzfus.

Research outputs are often published in venues such as Brain Research Bulletin, Behavioural Pharmacology, Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, Diabetes, and Addiction Biology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach bridging basic neuroscience and clinical pharmacology.

Best Publications

  • Conditioned taste aversions and drugs of abuse: A reinterpretation.

    Patricia Sue Grigson

  • Food reward system: current perspectives and future research needs.

    Miguel Alonso-Alonso;Stephen C. Woods;Marcia Pelchat;Patricia Sue Grigson

  • Symposium Overview. Food Addiction: Fact or Fiction?

    Rebecca L. Corwin;Patricia S. Grigson

  • Behavioral and Electrophysiological Indices of Negative Affect Predict Cocaine Self-Administration

    Robert A. Wheeler;Robert C. Twining;Joshua L. Jones;Jennifer M. Slater

  • Like drugs for chocolate: separate rewards modulated by common mechanisms?

    Patricia Sue Grigson

  • Parabrachial nucleus lesions and conditioned taste aversion: evidence supporting an associative deficit.

    Steve Reilly;Patricia Sue Grigson;Ralph Norgren

  • Cocaine-induced suppression of saccharin intake: a model of drug-induced devaluation of natural rewards.

    Patricia Sue Grigson;Robert C. Twining

  • Ibotenic acid lesions of the parabrachial nucleus and conditioned taste aversion: further evidence for an associative deficit in rats.

    Patricia Sue Grigson;Steve Reilly;Tsuyoshi Shimura;Ralph Norgren

  • The suppressive effects of sucrose and cocaine, but not lithium chloride, are greater in Lewis than in Fischer rats: evidence for the reward comparison hypothesis.

    Patricia S. Grigson;Christopher S. Freet

  • Gustatory functions, sodium appetite, and conditioned taste aversion survive excitotoxic lesions of the thalamic taste area

    Giuseppe Scalera;Patricia Sue Grigson;Ralph Norgren

  • Chlordiazepoxide and the determinants of negative contrast

    Charles F. Flaherty;Patricia S. Grigson;Grace A. Rowan

  • Abnormal latent inhibition and impulsivity in coloboma mice, a model of ADHD.

    Kristy J. Bruno;Christopher S. Freet;Robert C. Twining;Kiyoshi Egami

  • Yoked delivery of cocaine is aversive and protects against the motivation for drug in rats.

    Robert C. Twining;Matthew Bolan;Patricia S. Grigson

  • Brainstem lesions and gustatory function: III. The role of the nucleus of the solitary tract and the parabrachial nucleus in retention of a conditioned taste aversion in rats.

    Patricia S. Grigson;Tsuyoshi Shimura;Ralph Norgren

  • From contrast to reinforcement: role of response contingency in anticipatory contrast.

    Charles F. Flaherty;Patricia S. Grigson

  • Environmental Enrichment Protects Against the Acquisition of Cocaine Self-Administration in Adult Male Rats, but Does Not Eliminate Avoidance of a Drug-Associated Saccharin Cue

    Matthew D. Puhl;Joshua S. Blum;Stefany Acosta-Torres;Patricia S. Grigson

  • Parabrachial nucleus lesions block taste and attenuate flavor preference and aversion conditioning in rats.

    Anthony Sclafani;Anthony V. Azzara;Khalid Touzani;Patricia Sue Grigson

  • Bilateral lesions of the gustatory thalamus disrupt morphine- but not LiCl-induced intake suppression in rats: evidence against the conditioned taste aversion hypothesis

    Patricia Sue Grigson;Polina Lyuboslavsky;Diana Tanase

  • A history of bingeing on fat enhances cocaine seeking and taking.

    Matthew D. Puhl;Angie M. Cason;Francis H. E. Wojnicki;Rebecca L. Corwin

  • Microstructural analysis of successive negative contrast in free-feeding and deprived rats

    Patricia S Grigson;Alan C Spector;Ralph Norgren

  • Heroin self-administration: II. CNS gene expression following withdrawal and cue-induced drug-seeking behavior

    Kara L. Kuntz;Kruti M. Patel;Patricia S. Grigson;Willard M. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Norgren
Ralph Norgren Pennsylvania State University
Charles F. Flaherty
Charles F. Flaherty Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andras Hajnal
Andras Hajnal Pennsylvania State University
Regina M. Carelli
Regina M. Carelli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas J. Gould
Thomas J. Gould Pennsylvania State University
Mitchell F. Roitman
Mitchell F. Roitman University of Illinois at Chicago
Alan C. Spector
Alan C. Spector Florida State University
Diana H. Fishbein
Diana H. Fishbein Pennsylvania State University
Eric Stice
Eric Stice Stanford University
Sherry A. McKee
Sherry A. McKee Yale University

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