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Castro DC, Oswell CS, Zhang ET, Pedersen CE, Piantadosi SC, Rossi MA, Hunker AC, Guglin A, Morón JA, Zweifel LS, Stuber GD, Bruchas MR (2021). An endogenous opioid circuit determines state-dependent reward consumption. Nature. 598(7882):646-651. PMID: 34646022.

Gordon-Fennell A, Stuber GD (2021). Illuminating subcortical GABAergic and glutamatergic circuits for reward and aversion. Neuropharmacology. 198:108725. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108725.

Rossi MA, Basiri ML, Liu Y, Hashikawa Y, Hashikawa K, Fenno LE, Kim YS, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Stuber GD (2021). Transcriptional and functional divergence in lateral hypothalamic glutamate neurons projecting to the lateral habenula and ventral tegmental area. Neuron. PMID: 34624220.

Namboodiri VMK, Stuber GD (2020). Interoceptive Inception in Insula. Neuron. 18;105(6):959-960. PMID: 32191858.

Hashikawa Y, Hashikawa K, Rossi MA, Basiri ML, Liu Y, Johnston NL, Ahmad OR, Stuber GD (2020). Transcriptional and Spatial Resolution of Cell Types in the Mammalian Habenula. Neuron. pii: S0896-6273(20)30218-X. PMID:32272058.

Namboodiri VMK, Otis JM, van Heeswijk K, Voets ES, Alghorazi RA, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Mihalas S, Stuber GD (2019). Single-cell activity tracking reveals that orbitofrontal neurons acquire and maintain a long-term memory to guide behavioral adaptation. Nature Neuroscience. 22(7):1110-1121. PMID:31160741.

Otis JM, Zhu M, Namboodiri VMK, Cook CA, Kosyk O, Matan AM, Ying R, Hashikawa Y, Hashikawa K, Trujillo-Pisanty I, Guo J, Ung RL, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Anton ES, Stuber GD (2019). Paraventricular Thalamus Projection Neurons Integrate Cortical and Hypothalamic Signals for Cue-Reward Processing. Neuron. 103(3):423-431. PMID: 31196673.

Rossi MA, Basiri ML, McHenry JA, Kosyk O, Otis JM, van den Munkhof HE, Bryois J, Hübel C, Breen G, Guo W, Bulik CM, Sullivan PF, Stuber GD (2019). Obesity remodels activity and transcriptional state of a lateral hypothalamic brake on feeding. Science. 28;364(6447):1271-1274. PMID:31249056.

Otis JM, Namboodiri VM, Matan AM, Voets ES, Mohorn EP, Kosyk O, McHenry JA, Robinson JE, Resendez SL, Rossi MA, Stuber GD (2017). Prefrontal cortex output circuits guide reward seeking through divergent cue encoding. Nature. 543(7642): 103-107. PMID: 28225752.

Decot HK, Namboodiri VM, Gao W, McHenry JA, Jennings JH, Lee SH, Kantak PA, Jill Kao YC, Das M, Witten IB, Deisseroth K, Shih YI, Stuber GD (2016). Coordination of brain-wide activity dynamics by dopaminergic neurons. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.151.

Resendez SL, Jennings JH, Ung RL, Namboodiri VM, Zhou ZC, Otis JM, Nomura H, McHenry JA, Kosyk O, Stuber GD (2016). Visualization of cortical, subcortical and deep brain neural circuit dynamics during naturalistic mammalian behavior with head-mounted microscopes and chronically implanted lenses. Nature Protocols. 11(3):556-97. PMID: 26914316.

Stamatakis AM, Van Swieten M, Basiri ML, Blair GA, Kantak PA, Stuber GD (2016). Lateral hypothalamic area glutamatergic neurons and their projections to the lateral habenula regulate feeding and reward. Journal of Neuroscience. 36:302-311.

Jennings JH*, Ung RL*, Resendez SL, Stamatakis AM, Taylor JG, Huang J, Veleta K, Kantak PA, Aita M, Shilling-Scrivo K, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Otte S, Stuber GD (2015). Visualizing hypothalamic network dynamics for appetitive and consummatory behaviors. Cell. 160:516-27 PMID: 25635459.

Sparta DR, Hovelsø N, Mason AO, Kantak PA, Ung RL, Decot HK, Stuber GD (2014). Activation of prefrontal cortical parvalbumin interneurons facilitates extinction of reward-seeking behavior. Journal of Neuroscience. 34:3699-705. PMID: 24599468.

Stamatakis AM, Jennings JH, Ung RL, Blair GA, Weinberg RJ, Neve RL, Boyce R, Mattis J, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Stuber GD (2013). A unique population of ventral tegmental area neurons inhibits the lateral habenula to promote reward. Neuron. 80, 1039-53. PMID: 24267654.

Jennings JH, Rizzi G, Stamatakis AM, Ung RL, Stuber GD. (2013). The inhibitory circuit architecture of the lateral hypothalamus orchestrates feeding. Science. 341:1517-21.  PMID: 24072922.

Jennings JH*, Sparta DR*, Stamatakis AM, Ung RL, Pleil KE, Kash TL, Stuber GD (2013). Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states. Nature. 496, 224-228. PMID: 23515155.

Stamatakis AM, Stuber GD (2012). Activation of lateral habenula inputs to the ventral midbrain promotes behavioral avoidance. Nature Neuroscience. 15, 1105-1107. PMID: 22729176.

van Zessen R, Phiilips JL, Budygin EA, Stuber GD (2012). Activation of VTA GABA neurons disrupts reward consumption. Neuron. 73, 1184–1194. PMID: 22445345.

Sparta DR, Stamatakis AM, Phillips JL, Hovelsø N, van Zessen R, Stuber GD (2011). Construction of implantable optical fibers for long-term optogenetic manipulation of neural circuits.  Nature Protocols. 7, 12–23. PMID: 22157972.

Stuber GD, Sparta DR, Stamatakis AM, van Leeuwen W Harjoprajitno JE, Cho S, Tye KM, Kempadoo KA, Zhang F, Deisseroth K, Bonci A. (2011). Amygdala to nucleus accumbens excitatory transmission facilitates reward seeking.  Nature. 475: 377-380. PMID: 21716290.

Gordon-Fennell A, Stuber GD (2021). Illuminating subcortical GABAergic and glutamatergic circuits for reward and aversion. Neuropharmacology. 198:108725. PMID: 34375625.

K Namboodiri VM, Stuber GD (2021). The learning of prospective and retrospective cognitive maps within neural circuits. Neuron. 109(22):3552-3575. PMID: 34678148.

Rossi MA, Stuber GD (2018). Overlapping Brain Circuits for Homeostatic and Hedonic Feeding. Cell Metabolism. 27(1):42-56. PMID:29107504.

Stuber GD, Wise RA (2016). Lateral hypothalamic circuits for feeding and reward. Nature Neuroscience. 19(2):198-205. PMID: 26814589.

McHenry JA, Rubinow DR, Stuber GD (2015). Maternally responsive neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial preoptic area: Putative circuits for regulating anxiety and reward. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 38:65-72. PMID: 25910426 .

Jennings, JH, Stuber GD (2014). Contemporary tools for resolving the functional activity and connectivity within intact neural circuits. Current Biology. 24(1):41-50. PMID: 24405680.

Stamatakis AM, Sparta DR, Jennings JH, McElligott ZA, Decot H, Stuber GD. (2013). Amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis circuitry: Implications for addiction-related behaviors.  Neuropharmacology. PMID: 23752096.

Sparta DR, Jennings JH, Ung RL, Stuber GD (2013). Optogenetic strategies to investigate neural circuitry engaged by stress. Behavioral Brain Research. 255:19-25. PMID: 23684554.

Stuber GD, Mason AO (2013). Integrating optogenetic and pharmacological approaches to study neural circuit function: current applications and future directions. Pharmacological Reviews. 10(1): 156-170. PMID: 23319548.

Stuber GD, Britt JP, Bonci A. (2012). Optogenetic modulation of neural circuits that underlie reward seeking. Biological Psychiatry. 71(12):1061-7. PMID: 22196983.

Lab Preprints

Gordon-Fennell A, Barbakh JM, Utley M, Singh S, Bazzino P, Gowrishankar R, Bruchas MR, Roitman M, Stuber GD (2023). An Open-Source Platform for Head-Fixed Operant and Consummatory Behavior. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.13.523828.

Ottenheimer DJ, Hjort MM, Bowen AJ, Steinmetz NA, Stuber GD (2022). A stable, distributed code for cue value in mouse cortex during reward learning. bioRxiv. dio: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.13.499930.

Hashikawa K, Hashikawa Y, Liu Y, Rossi MA, Basiri ML, Chen JY, Ahmad OR, Mukundan RV, Johnston NL, McHenry JA, Palmiter RD, Rubinow DR, Zweifel LS, Stuber GD (2021). Pubertal sex hormones control transcriptional trajectories in the medial preoptic area. bioRxiv. dio: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.02.458782.

Stuber GD, Stamatakis AM, Kantak PA (2015) Considerations when using cre-driver rodent lines for studying ventral tegmental area circuitry. Neuron. 85:439-45 PMID: 25611514

Sparta DR, Stuber GD (2014) Cartography of serotonergic circuits. Neuron. 83(3): 513-5.  PMID: 25102556

Stuber GD (2013) Cortical operation of the ventral striatal switchboard. Neuron. 78(1): 6-7. PMID: 23583104

Stuber GD (2010) Dissecting the neural circuitry of addiction and psychiatric disease with optogenetics.Neuropsychopharmacology. 35, 341-2. PMID: 20010708