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D-Index
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Citations
5699
World Ranking
8145
National Ranking
3491

Overview

T. Celeste Napier is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States and has a research focus spanning neuroscience and medicine, with particular expertise in cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, and virology. Their work also encompasses clinical psychology and social psychology as subfields of study.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, HIV research and treatment, mechanisms and treatments related to Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, tryptophan and brain disorders, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Napier has published research in several venues, with a frequent presence in Research Square and other journals such as Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Hormones and Behavior, Scientific Reports, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

  • The role of dopamine pharmacotherapy and addiction-like behaviors in Parkinson's disease, 2020, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • HIV-1 Tat and morphine decrease murine inter-male social interactions and associated oxytocin levels in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, 2021, Hormones and Behavior
  • Mitochondrial function influences expression of methamphetamine-induced behavioral sensitization, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • 6-Hydroxydopamine Treatments Enhance Behavioral Responses to Intracerebral Microinjection of D1- and D2-Dopamine Agonists into Nucleus Accumbens and Striatum Without Changing Dopamine Antagonist Binding, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Gut and brain profiles that resemble pre-motor and early-stage Parkinson's disease in methamphetamine self-administering rats, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Amanda L. Persons, Alana Kirby, I. Calma, Brinda Desai Bradaric, and Sarah E. Nigro.

Best Publications

  • The ventral pallidum: Subregion-specific functional anatomy and roles in motivated behaviors.

    David H. Root;Roberto I. Melendez;Laszlo Zaborszky;T. Celeste Napier

  • Impulse control disorders and levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease: an update.

    Valerie Voon;Valerie Voon;T Celeste Napier;Michael J Frank;Veronique Sgambato-Faure;Veronique Sgambato-Faure

  • Choice impulsivity: Definitions, measurement issues, and clinical implications

    Kristen R. Hamilton;Marci R. Mitchell;Victoria C. Wing;Iris M. Balodis

  • The effects of psychostimulant drugs on blood brain barrier function and neuroinflammation.

    Sharanya M. Kousik;T. Celeste Napier;Paul M. Carvey

  • Neonatal and Adult 6‐Hydroxydopamine‐Induced Lesions Differentially Alter Tachykinin and Enkephalin Gene Expression

    Subbiah P. Sivam;George R. Breese;James E. Krause;T. Celeste Napier

  • Opioid modulation of ventral pallidal inputs.

    T. Celeste Napier;Igor Mitrovic

  • The basal forebrain : anatomy to function

    T. Celeste Napier;Peter W. Kalivas;Israel Hanin

  • Substance P in the ventral pallidum: Projection from the ventral striatum, and electrophysiological and behavioral cinsequences of pallidal substance P

    T. C. Napier;I. Mitrovic;L. Churchill;M. A. Klitenick

  • Using conditioned place preference to identify relapse prevention medications

    T. Celeste Napier;Amy A. Herrold;Harriet de Wit

  • The Basal Forebrain

    T. Celeste Napier;Peter W. Kalivas;Israel Hanin

  • Pramipexole-Induced Increased Probabilistic Discounting: Comparison Between a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease and Controls

    Sandra L Rokosik;T Celeste Napier

  • Opioid and GABA modulation of accumbens-evoked ventral pallidal activity

    J. J. Chrobak;T. C. Napier

  • Linking neuroscience with modern concepts of impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease

    T. Celeste Napier;Jean-Christophe Corvol;Anthony A. Grace;Jamie D. Roitman

  • Amphetamine-Induced Place Preference and Conditioned Motor Sensitization Requires Activation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors in the Hippocampus

    Fei Shen;Gloria E Meredith;T Celeste Napier

  • Dopamine electrophysiology of ventral pallidal/substantia innominata neurons: comparison with the dorsal globus pallidus.

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  • Dopamine D1 and D2 receptor agonists induce opposite changes in the firing rate of ventral pallidal neurons.

    Renata J. Maslowski;T.Celeste Napier

  • Regulation of Limbic Information Outflow by the Subthalamic Nucleus: Excitatory Amino Acid Projections to the Ventral Pallidum

    Michael S. Turner;Antonieta Lavin;Anthony A. Grace;T. Celeste Napier

  • Activation of dopaminergic neurons modulates ventral pallidal responses evoked by Amygdala stimulation

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  • Substance P attenuates and DAMGO potentiates amygdala glutamatergic neurotransmission within the ventral pallidum

    Igor Mitrovic;T Celeste Napier

  • Dopaminergic lesions of the dorsolateral striatum in rats increase delay discounting in an impulsive choice task.

    Stephanie E. Tedford;Amanda L. Persons;T. Celeste Napier

  • Methamphetamine self-administration results in persistent dopaminergic pathology: implications for Parkinson's disease risk and reward-seeking.

    Sharanya M. Kousik;Paul M. Carvey;T. Celeste Napier

  • Stress-induced renin and corticosterone secretion is mediated by catecholaminergic nerve terminals in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

    K.D. Richardson Morton;Louis D. Van de Kar;Mark S. Brownfield;Stanley A. Lorens

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiu-Ti Hu
Xiu-Ti Hu Rush University Medical Center
Paul M. Carvey
Paul M. Carvey Rush University Medical Center
James J. Chrobak
James J. Chrobak University of Connecticut
Anthony A. Grace
Anthony A. Grace University of Pittsburgh
Gloria E. Meredith
Gloria E. Meredith Binghamton University
Valerie Voon
Valerie Voon University of Cambridge
Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Suzanne H. Mitchell
Suzanne H. Mitchell Oregon Health & Science University
Warren K. Bickel
Warren K. Bickel Virginia Tech
Charles W. Mathias
Charles W. Mathias The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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