Publications

Published

*Post, R.J., *Bulkin, D.A., Ebitz, R.B., †Lee, V., Han, K., and Warden, M.R. (2022). Tonic activity in lateral habenula neurons acts as a neutral valence brake on reward-seeking behavior. Current Biology. 32(20): 4325-4336.e5. Full text.

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Post, R.J. and Warden, M.R. (2018). Melancholy, anhedonia, apathy: the search for separable behaviors and neural circuits in depression. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 49: 192-200. Full text.

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Guru, A., Post, R.J., Ho, Y.Y., and Warden, M.R. (2015). Making sense of optogenetics. International Journal of Psychopharmacology. 18(11): pyv079. Full text.

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Post, R.J., Dahlborg, K.M., O’Loughlin, L.E., and Bloom, C.M. (2014). Effects of juvenile exposure to predator odor on adolescent and adult anxiety and pain nociception. Physiology & Behavior. 131: 57-61. Full text.

 

Bloom, C.M., Post, R.J., Mazick, J., Blumenthal, B., Doyle, C., Peters, B., Dyche, J., and Davenport, D.G. (2013). A discriminated conditioned punishment model of phobia. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 9: 1239-1248. Full text.

 

Bloom, C.M., Post, R.J., Anch, A.M., and Davenport, D.G. (2013). Behavioral assessment of visual deficits in the taiep mutant. Degenerative Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease. 3: 15-21. Full text.

 

Preprint publicly available

Guru, A., Seo, C., Post, R.J., Kullakanda, D.S., Schaffer, J.A., and Warden, M.R. (2020). Ramping activity in midbrain dopamine neurons signifies the use of a cognitive map. bioRxiv. 2020.5.21, 108886. Full text.

 

In revision or under review

*Post, R.J., *Kindel, M., *Goldstein, N., *Lieberman, A.G., Blank, N., Smith, N.K., Awh, M., Chin, P.W., Jung, A., Carty, J.R.E., Kruger, K.A., Villari, R., Cho, E., †Richie, L., †Timoney, M., †Kern, H..C., Jaycox, C., †Skelly, B., Collins, H.W., †Morley, E.N., †Kelly, C.O., †Moore, E.J., †Fernandes, C.A., †Kellarakos, T.M., McKnight, A.D., Aguilar, F.S., Alhadeff, A.L., Thaiss, C.A., Machado, T.A., Betley, J.N. Separable streams of hunger and cost information enable behavioral trade-offs.

 

*Kindel, M., *Post, R.J., Lantier, L., Hwang, E., Carty, J.R.E., Villari, R., Goldstein, N., †Kern, H.C., †Richie, L., †Skelly, B., Dohnlová, L., Rai, M., Fujikawa, T., Ayala, J.E., Elmquist, J.K., Thaiss, C.A., Wasserman, D.H., Williams, K.W., Bloss, E.B., and Betley, J.N. Exercise-induced activation of ventromedial hypothalamic steroidogenic factor-1 neurons mediates improvements in endurance.

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*Equal contributions; †Undergraduate mentee