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Sean B. Ostlund

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Neuroscience

D-Index
34
Citations
6896
World Ranking
9271
National Ranking
3911

Sean B. Ostlund publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean B. Ostlund sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 publications — 3rd percentile

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Sean B. Ostlund D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean B. Ostlund sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Sean B. Ostlund is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and related fields, contributing to the understanding of neural mechanisms underlying behavior and neuropharmacology. Ostlund's work primarily focuses on neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

Their scholarly output includes research on reward learning, motivated behavior, and the neurological impact of substances such as THC and morphine. Key recent publications include:

  • Reward-predictive cues elicit excessive reward seeking in adolescent rats, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Long-term effects of THC exposure on reward learning and motivated behavior in adolescent and adult male rats, 2023, Psychopharmacology
  • Probing the role of reward expectancy in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Differential effects of acute and prolonged morphine withdrawal on motivational and goal-directed control over reward-seeking behaviour, 2024, Addiction Biology
  • Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activation disrupts Pavlovian incentive motivation, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The range of publication venues reflects a focus on behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) as well as journals such as Psychopharmacology, Addiction Biology, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Ostlund collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, including Briac Halbout, Collin Hutson, Andrew T. Marshall, Christy Munson, and Nigel T. Maidment. These partnerships contribute to research in fields such as neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Cannabis and cannabinoid research

Ostlund's research areas encompass both main fields of study and subfields, with a focus on:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
  • Cellular and molecular neuroscience
  • Molecular biology
  • Behavioral neuroscience
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Social psychology

Best Publications

  • The role of the dorsomedial striatum in instrumental conditioning.

    Henry H. Yin;Sean B. Ostlund;Barbara J. Knowlton;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Reward‐guided learning beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens: the integrative functions of cortico‐basal ganglia networks

    Henry H. Yin;Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Outcome Encoding in Pavlovian But Not Instrumental Conditioning

    Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The integrative function of the basal ganglia in instrumental conditioning.

    Bernard W. Balleine;Mimi Liljeholm;Sean B. Ostlund

  • Lesions of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Disrupt the Acquisition But Not the Expression of Goal-Directed Learning

    Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Still at the choice-point: action selection and initiation in instrumental conditioning.

    Bernard W Balleine;Sean B Ostlund

  • Differential Involvement of the Basolateral Amygdala and Mediodorsal Thalamus in Instrumental Action Selection

    Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events

    K. M. Wassum;S. B. Ostlund;N. T. Maidment;B. W. Balleine

  • On habits and addiction: an associative analysis of compulsive drug seeking

    Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Targeted expression of μ-opioid receptors in a subset of striatal direct-pathway neurons restores opiate reward

    Yijun Cui;Sean B Ostlund;Alex S James;Chang Sin Park

  • Differential dependence of Pavlovian incentive motivation and instrumental incentive learning processes on dopamine signaling.

    Kate M. Wassum;Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine;Nigel T. Maidment

  • Repeated cocaine exposure facilitates the expression of incentive motivation and induces habitual control in rats.

    Kimberly H. LeBlanc;Kimberly H. LeBlanc;Nigel T. Maidment;Nigel T. Maidment;Sean B. Ostlund;Sean B. Ostlund

  • Consolidation and Reconsolidation of Incentive Learning in the Amygdala

    Szu-Han Wang;Sean B Ostlund;Karim Nader;Bernard W Balleine

  • Phasic mesolimbic dopamine release tracks reward seeking during expression of Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer.

    Kate M. Wassum;Sean B. Ostlund;Sean B. Ostlund;Gabriel C. Loewinger;Nigel T. Maidment;Nigel T. Maidment

  • Sensitivity to Instrumental Contingency Degradation Is Mediated by the Entorhinal Cortex and Its Efferents via the Dorsal Hippocampus

    Laura H. Corbit;Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • The contribution of orbitofrontal cortex to action selection.

    Sean B. Ostlund;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Evidence of Action Sequence Chunking in Goal-Directed Instrumental Conditioning and Its Dependence on the Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex

    Sean B. Ostlund;Neil E. Winterbauer;Bernard W. Balleine

  • Phasic Mesolimbic Dopamine Signaling Precedes and Predicts Performance of a Self-Initiated Action Sequence Task

    Kate M. Wassum;Kate M. Wassum;Sean B. Ostlund;Sean B. Ostlund;Nigel T. Maidment;Nigel T. Maidment

  • Nucleus Accumbens Acetylcholine Receptors Modulate Dopamine and Motivation.

    Anne L Collins;Tara J Aitken;Venuz Y Greenfield;Sean B Ostlund

  • Phasic mesolimbic dopamine signaling encodes the facilitation of incentive motivation produced by repeated cocaine exposure

    Sean B Ostlund;Kimberly H LeBlanc;Alisa R Kosheleff;Kate M Wassum

  • Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in cocaine seeking rats.

    Kimberly H. LeBlanc;Sean B. Ostlund;Nigel T. Maidment

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel T. Maidment
Nigel T. Maidment University of California, Los Angeles
Bernard W. Balleine
Bernard W. Balleine University of New South Wales
Henry H. Yin
Henry H. Yin Duke University
Mary Kay Lobo
Mary Kay Lobo University of Maryland, Baltimore
Giselle M. Petzinger
Giselle M. Petzinger University of Southern California
Roshan Cools
Roshan Cools Radboud University
Monica M Luciana
Monica M Luciana University of Minnesota
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
Sanne de Wit
Sanne de Wit University of Amsterdam
Michael S. Levine
Michael S. Levine Princeton University

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