Recent Department of Behavioral Neuroscience Papers

H.G. Hashimoto, R.A. Mangieri, A.J. Roberts, T. Lime, B.A. Davis, L. Carbone, M. Roberto, M. Guizzetti. Alcohol dependence-induced astrocyte immune activation in the nucleus accumbens. Neurobiology of Disease; 217: 107171.  10.1016/j.nbd.2025.107171.

 M. Guizzetti, R.A. Mangieri, L. Ezerskiy, J.G. Hashimoto, M. Bajo, S.P. Farris, G.E. Homanics, A.W. Lasek, R.D. Mayfield, R.O. Messing, M. Roberto. Astrocytes and alcohol throughout the lifespan. (2026) Biological Psychiatry; 99: 9-20. 10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.013.  

J.G. Hashimoto, A. Gonzalez, L.Z. Day, N. Gorham, Z. Barbour, A.J. Roberts, B.A. Davis, L. Carbone, J. Jacobs, M. Roberto, M. Guizzetti. Astrocyte reactivity by alcohol dependence in the central amygdala. (2026) Brain, Behavior, and Immunity; 137:106824. 10.1016/j.bbi.2026.106824

O’Niel, A., Parkins, C.J., Pederson, A., Saltonstall, E., Bunnell, E., Aggarwal, R., Sandholm, P., Kessler, K., Harrison, H.F., Smith, J.L., Hirsch, A.J., Raber, J. (2025) Effects of West Nile virus on behavioral and cognitive performance, cortical Ab pathology, viral loads, and immune measures of middle-aged NL-G-F/E3 and NL-G-F/E4 mice. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience; 17: 1600119.https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2025.1600119/full

Raber, J., Pederson, A., Bunnell, E., Mattek, N., Gray, N.E., Kohama, S.G., Weiss, A.R., Quinn, J.F., Urbanski, H.F. (2025) a-klotho as a biomarker of amyloid b levels in the cerebrospinal fluid. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience; 17: 1599402. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2025.1599402/full

Raber, J., O’Niel, A., Kasschau, K.D., Pederson, A., Robinson, N., Guidarelli, C., Chalmers, C., Winters-Stone, K., Sharpton, T.J. (2025) Exercise, APOE Genotype, and Testosterone Modulate Gut Microbiome–Cognition Associations in Prostate Cancer Survivors. Genes; 16, 507. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/16/12/1507

 Hwang EK, Wunsch AM, Wolf ME. (2025) Retinoic acid-mediated homeostatic plasticity drives cell type-specific CP-AMPAR accumulation in nucleus accumbens core and incubation of cocaine craving. Mol Psychiatry; 30:3175-3187. 10.1038/s41380-025-03026-9