Almonte AG, Ewin SE, Mauterer MI, Morgan JW, Carter ES, Weiner JL (2017) Enhanced ventral hippocampal synaptic transmission and impaired synaptic plasticity in a rodent model of alcohol addiction vulnerability. Scientific Reports 7: 12300. PMID: 28951619
Helms CM, Bell RL, Bennett AJ, Davies DL, Chester JA, Kosten TA, Leeman RF, Panicker S, Platt DM, Weiner JL, Edwards S. (2015) The importance of animals in advancing research on alcohol use disorders. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 39: 575-578. PMID: 25833015; PMCID: PMC5052074
Skelly MJ, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2017) Fear conditioning selectively disrupts noradrenergic facilitation of GABAergic inhibition in the basolateral amygdala. Neuropharmacology 113:231-240. PMID: 27720769
Karkhanis AN, Locke JL, McCool BA, Weiner JL, Jones SR (2014) Social isolation rearing increases nucleus accumbens dopamine and norepinephrine responses to acute ethanol in adulthood. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 38:2770-2779. PMID: 25421514; PMCID: PMC4519347
Gilpin NW, Weiner JL (2017) Neurobiology of comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol-use disorder. Genes Brain Behav 16:15-43. PMID: 27749004; PMCID: PMC5477640 [Available on 2018-01-01]
Butler TR, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2014) The impact of social isolation on HPA axis function, anxiety-like behaviors, and ethanol drinking. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 7:102. PMID: 24427122; PMCID: PMC3877772
Skelly MJ, Chappell AM, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2016) Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence that lateral paracapsular GABAergic synapses in the basolateral amygdala contribute to the acquisition and extinction of fear learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem 127:10-16. PMID: 26593151; PMCID: PMC4718746
Rau AR, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2014) Presynaptic adenosine A(1) receptors modulate excitatory transmission in the rat basolateral amygdala. Neuropharmacology 77:465-474. PMID: 24212058; PMCID: PMC3872110
Karkhanis AN, Rose JH, Weiner JL, Jones SR (2016) Early-life social isolation stress increases kappa opioid receptor responsiveness and downregulates the dopamine system. Neuropsychopharmacology 41:2263-2274. PMID: 26860203; PMCID: PMC4946054.
Butler TR, Chappell AM, Weiner JL (2014) Effect of beta3 adrenoceptor activation in the basolateral amygdala on ethanol seeking behaviors. Psychopharmacology 231:293-303. PMID: 23955701; PMCID: PMC3877711
Butler TR, Karkhanis AN, Jones SR, Weiner JL (2016) Adolescent social isolation as a model of heightened vulnerability to comorbid alcoholism and anxiety disorders. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 40:1202-1214. PMID: 27154240; PMCID: PMC5131257
Butler TR, Carter E, Weiner JL (2014) Adolescent social isolation does not lead to persistent increases in anxiety- like behavior or ethanol intake in female Long-Evans rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 38:2199-2207. PMID: 25092210; PMCID: PMC4146661
Skelly MJ, Chappell AE, Carter E, Weiner JL (2015) Adolescent social isolation increases anxiety-like behavior and ethanol intake and impairs fear extinction in adulthood: possible role of disrupted noradrenergic signaling. Neuropharmacology 97: 149-15. PMID: 26044636; PMCID: PMC4537360
Bass CE, Grinevich VP, Gioia D, Day-Brown JD, Bonin KD, Stuber GD, Weiner JL, Budygin EA (2013) Optogenetic stimulation of VTA dopamine neurons reveals that tonic but not phasic patterns of dopamine transmission reduce ethanol self-administration. Front Behav Neurosci 7: 173. PMID: 24324415; PMCID: PMC3840465
Rau AR, Chappell AM, Butler TR, Ariwodola OJ, Weiner JL (2015) Increased Basolateral Amygdala Pyramidal Cell Excitability May Contribute to the Anxiogenic Phenotype Induced by Chronic Early-Life Stress. Journal of Neuroscience 35:9730-9740. PMID: 26134655; PMCID: PMC4571506.
Abrahao KP, Ariwodola OJ, Butler TR, Rau AR, Skelly MJ, Carter E, Alexander NP, McCool BA, Souza-Formigoni ML, Weiner JL (2013) Locomotor sensitization to ethanol impairs NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens and increases ethanol self-administration. Journal of Neuroscience 33: 4834-42. PMID: 23486954; PMCID: PMC3658831
Karkhanis AN, Alexander NJ, McCool BA, Weiner JL, Jones SR (2015) Chronic social isolation during adolescence augments catecholamine response to acute ethanol in the basolateral amygdala. Synapse 69: 385-395. PMID: 25963724; PMCID: PMC4578716.
Yorgason JT, España RA, Konstantopoulos JK, Weiner JL, Jones SR (2013) Enduring increases in anxiety-like behavior and rapid nucleus accumbens dopamine signaling in socially isolated rats. Eur J Neurosci 37: 1022-31. PMID: 23294165; PMCID: PMC3746484
Chappell AM, Carter E, McCool BA, Weiner JL (2013) Adolescent rearing conditions influence the relationship between initial anxiety-like behavior and ethanol drinking in male Long Evans rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 37 S1:E394-403. PMID: 22924742; PMCID: PMC3529208