Publications

Pleil KE, Grant KA, Carlson VCCuzon, Kash TL.  2024.  Chronic alcohol consumption alters sex-dependent BNST neuron function in rhesus macaques. Neurobiol Stress. 31:100638.

Salling MC, Pleil KE.  2024.  A Little "Re-Cognition" Goes a Long Way for Pro-Cognitive Therapeutics in Alcohol Studies. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 389(3):254-257.

Zallar LJ, Rivera-Irizarry JK, Hamor PU, Pigulevskiy I, Rozo A-SRico, Mehanna H, Liu D, Welday JP, Bender R, Asfouri JJ et al..  2024.  Rapid nongenomic estrogen signaling controls alcohol drinking behavior in mice. Nat Commun. 15(1):10725.

Hamor PU, Hartmann MC, Garcia A, Liu D, Pleil KE.  2023.  Morphine-context associative memory and locomotor sensitization in mice are modulated by sex and context in a dose-dependent manner. bioRxiv.

Rivera-Irizarry JK, Zallar LJ, Levine OB, Skelly MJane, Boyce JE, Barney T, Kopyto R, Pleil KE.  2023.  Sex differences in binge alcohol drinking and the behavioral consequences of protracted abstinence in C57BL/6J mice. Biol Sex Differ. 14(1):83.

Rivera-Irizarry JK, Hamor PU, Rowson SA, Asfouri J, Liu D, Zallar LJ, Garcia AF, Skelly MJane, Pleil KE.  2023.  Valence and salience encoding by parallel circuits from the paraventricular thalamus to the nucleus accumbens. bioRxiv.

Hartmann MC, Pleil KE.  2021.  Circuit and neuropeptide mechanisms of the paraventricular thalamus across stages of alcohol and drug use. Neuropharmacology. 198:108748.

Rowson SA, Pleil KE.  2021.  Influences of Stress and Sex on the Paraventricular Thalamus: Implications for Motivated Behavior. Front Behav Neurosci. 15:636203.

Levine OB, Skelly MJane, Miller JD, Rivera-Irizarry JK, Rowson SA, DiBerto JF, Rinker JA, Thiele TE, Kash TL, Pleil KE.  2021.  The paraventricular thalamus provides a polysynaptic brake on limbic CRF neurons to sex-dependently blunt binge alcohol drinking and avoidance behavior in mice. Nat Commun. 12(1):5080.

Rowson SA, Pleil KE.  2021.  Social Stress-Induced Behavioral Adaptations in Females: A Focus on Midline Thalamus Crh Neurons. Biol Psychiatry. 90(8):513-515.

Acosta-Ruiz A, Gutzeit VA, Skelly MJane, Meadows S, Lee J, Parekh P, Orr AG, Liston C, Pleil KE, Broichhagen J et al..  2020.  Branched Photoswitchable Tethered Ligands Enable Ultra-efficient Optical Control and Detection of G Protein-Coupled Receptors In Vivo. Neuron. 105(3):446-463.e13.

Odell SC, Taki F, Klein SLiba, Chen RJ, Levine OB, Skelly MJane, Nabila A, Brindley E, Toth JGal, Dündar F et al..  2020.  Epigenomically Bistable Regions across Neuron-Specific Genes Govern Neuron Eligibility to a Coding Ensemble in the Hippocampus. Cell Rep. 31(12):107789.

Rivera-Irizarry JK, Skelly MJane, Pleil KE.  2020.  Social Isolation Stress in Adolescence, but not Adulthood, Produces Hypersocial Behavior in Adult Male and Female C57BL/6J Mice. Front Behav Neurosci. 14:129.

Pleil KE, Skelly MJane.  2018.  CRF modulation of central monoaminergic function: Implications for sex differences in alcohol drinking and anxiety. Alcohol. 72:33-47.

Radke AK, Jury NJ, Kocharian A, Marcinkiewcz CA, Lowery-Gionta EG, Pleil KE, McElligott ZA, McKlveen JM, Kash TL, Holmes A.  2017.  Chronic EtOH effects on putative measures of compulsive behavior in mice. Addict Biol. 22(2):423-434.

Bath KG, Russo SJ, Pleil KE, Wohleb ES, Duman RS, Radley JJ.  2017.  Circuit and synaptic mechanisms of repeated stress: Perspectives from differing contexts, duration, and development. Neurobiol Stress. 7:137-151.

Rinker JA, S Marshall A, Mazzone CM, Lowery-Gionta EG, Gulati V, Pleil KE, Kash TL, Navarro M, Thiele TE.  2017.  Extended Amygdala to Ventral Tegmental Area Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Circuit Controls Binge Ethanol Intake. Biol Psychiatry. 81(11):930-940.

Pleil KE, Helms CM, Sobus JR, Daunais JB, Grant KA, Kash TL.  2016.  Effects of chronic alcohol consumption on neuronal function in the non-human primate BNST. Addict Biol. 21(6):1151-1167.

Navarro M, Olney JJ, Burnham NW, Mazzone CM, Lowery-Gionta EG, Pleil KE, Kash TL, Thiele TE.  2016.  Lateral Hypothalamus GABAergic Neurons Modulate Consummatory Behaviors Regardless of the Caloric Content or Biological Relevance of the Consumed Stimuli. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(6):1505-12.

Li C, Sugam JA, Lowery-Gionta EG, McElligott ZA, McCall NM, Lopez AJ, McKlveen JM, Pleil KE, Kash TL.  2016.  Mu Opioid Receptor Modulation of Dopamine Neurons in the Periaqueductal Gray/Dorsal Raphe: A Role in Regulation of Pain. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(8):2122-32.

J Hardaway A, Jensen J, Kim M, Mazzone CM, Sugam JA, DiBerto JF, Lowery-Gionta EG, Hwa LS, Pleil KE, Bulik CM et al..  2016.  Nociceptin receptor antagonist SB 612111 decreases high fat diet binge eating. Behav Brain Res. 307:25-34.

Pleil KE, Lowery-Gionta EG, Crowley NA, Li C, Marcinkiewcz CA, Rose JH, McCall NM, Maldonado-Devincci AM, A Morrow L, Jones SR et al..  2015.  Effects of chronic ethanol exposure on neuronal function in the prefrontal cortex and extended amygdala. Neuropharmacology. 99:735-49.

Kash TL, Pleil KE, Marcinkiewcz CA, Lowery-Gionta EG, Crowley N, Mazzone C, Sugam J, J Hardaway A, McElligott ZA.  2015.  Neuropeptide regulation of signaling and behavior in the BNST. Mol Cells. 38(1):1-13.

Vardy E, J Robinson E, Li C, Olsen RHJ, DiBerto JF, Giguere PM, Sassano FM, Huang X-P, Zhu H, Urban DJ et al..  2015.  A New DREADD Facilitates the Multiplexed Chemogenetic Interrogation of Behavior. Neuron. 86(4):936-946.

Pleil KE, Rinker JA, Lowery-Gionta EG, Mazzone CM, McCall NM, Kendra AM, Olson DP, Lowell BB, Grant KA, Thiele TE et al..  2015.  NPY signaling inhibits extended amygdala CRF neurons to suppress binge alcohol drinking. Nat Neurosci. 18(4):545-52.