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Overview

Stan B. Floresco is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a total of 99 publications in this field. Within neuroscience, their work spans several subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, and molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in Floresco's research include:

  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling

Floresco has published frequently in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Behavioural Brain Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored include the following works:

  • "Prelimbic and Infralimbic Prefrontal Regulation of Active and Inhibitory Avoidance and Reward-Seeking," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Prefrontal-hippocampal interactions supporting the extinction of emotional memories: the retrieval stopping model," 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Early life adversity promotes resilience to opioid addiction-related phenotypes in male rats and sex-specific transcriptional changes," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Ventral Pallidum GABA Neurons Mediate Motivation Underlying Risky Choice," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Event-based control of autonomic and emotional states by the anterior cingulate cortex," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Floresco regularly collaborates with a set of co-authors, including Désirée R. Seib, Ryan J. Tomm, Christopher P. Knapp, Barry D. Waterhouse, and Rachel L. Navarra, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Afferent modulation of dopamine neuron firing differentially regulates tonic and phasic dopamine transmission

    Stan B Floresco;Anthony R West;Brian Ash;Holly Moore

  • Regulation of firing of dopaminergic neurons and control of goal-directed behaviors

    Anthony A. Grace;Stan B. Floresco;Yukiori Goto;Daniel J. Lodge

  • Targeted disruption of the Huntington's disease gene results in embryonic lethality and behavioral and morphological changes in heterozygotes.

    Jamal Nasir;Stan B Floresco;John R O'Kusky;Virginia M Diewert

  • The Nucleus Accumbens: An Interface Between Cognition, Emotion, and Action

    Stan B. Floresco

  • Selective Roles for Hippocampal, Prefrontal Cortical, and Ventral Striatal Circuits in Radial-Arm Maze Tasks With or Without a Delay

    Stan B. Floresco;Jeremy K. Seamans;Anthony G. Phillips

  • Glutamatergic Afferents from the Hippocampus to the Nucleus Accumbens Regulate Activity of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons

    Stan B. Floresco;Christopher L. Todd;Anthony A. Grace

  • D1 Receptor Modulation of Hippocampal–Prefrontal Cortical Circuits Integrating Spatial Memory with Executive Functions in the Rat

    Jeremy K. Seamans;Stan B. Floresco;Anthony G. Phillips

  • Mesocortical dopamine modulation of executive functions: beyond working memory

    Stan B. Floresco;Orsolya Magyar

  • Dopaminergic and Glutamatergic Regulation of Effort- and Delay-Based Decision Making

    Stan B Floresco;Maric T L Tse;Sarvin Ghods-Sharifi

  • Inactivation of the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat impairs strategy set-shifting, but not reversal learning, using a novel, automated procedure.

    Stan B. Floresco;Annie E. Block;Maric T.L. Tse

  • Multiple dopamine receptor subtypes in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat regulate set-shifting.

    Stan B Floresco;Orsolya Magyar;Sarvin Ghods-Sharifi;Claudia Vexelman

  • Reconciling reinforcement learning models with behavioral extinction and renewal: implications for addiction, relapse, and problem gambling.

    A. David Redish;Steve Jensen;Adam Johnson;Zeb Kurth-Nelson

  • Functional differences between the prelimbic and anterior cingulate regions of the rat prefrontal cortex.

    Jeremy K. Seamans;Stanley B. Floresco;Anthony G. Phillips

  • Abrupt Transitions between Prefrontal Neural Ensemble States Accompany Behavioral Transitions during Rule Learning

    Daniel Durstewitz;Nicole M. Vittoz;Stan B. Floresco;Jeremy K. Seamans

  • Dopaminergic modulation of risk-based decision making.

    Jennifer R St Onge;Stan B Floresco

  • Orexin A/Hypocretin-1 Selectively Promotes Motivation for Positive Reinforcers

    Borgland Sl;Chang Sj;Bowers Ms;Thompson Jl

  • Prefrontal dopamine and behavioral flexibility: shifting from an "inverted-U" toward a family of functions.

    Stan B. Floresco

  • Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortical Circuitry Regulates Effort-Based Decision Making

    Stan B. Floresco;Sarvin Ghods-Sharifi

  • Cortico-limbic-striatal circuits subserving different forms of cost-benefit decision making

    Stan B. Floresco;Jennifer R. St. Onge;Sarvin Ghods-Sharifi;Catharine A. Winstanley

  • Suppression of Amygdalar Endocannabinoid Signaling by Stress Contributes to Activation of the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis

    Matthew N Hill;Ryan J McLaughlin;Anna C Morrish;Victor Viau

  • Neural circuits subserving behavioral flexibility and their relevance to schizophrenia.

    Stan B. Floresco;Ying Zhang;Takeshi Enomoto;Takeshi Enomoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony G. Phillips
Anthony G. Phillips University of British Columbia
Liisa A.M. Galea
Liisa A.M. Galea University of British Columbia
Anthony A. Grace
Anthony A. Grace University of Pittsburgh
Jeremy K. Seamans
Jeremy K. Seamans University of British Columbia
Charles D. Blaha
Charles D. Blaha Mayo Clinic
Catharine A. Winstanley
Catharine A. Winstanley University of British Columbia
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Stephanie L. Borgland
Stephanie L. Borgland University of Calgary
Yu Tian Wang
Yu Tian Wang University of British Columbia
Debra A. Bangasser
Debra A. Bangasser Georgia State University

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