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Tseng, K.Y., Lewis, B.L., Hashimoto, T., Sesack, S.R., Kloc, M., Lewis, D.A., and O'Donnell, P. A neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion causes functional deficits in adult prefrontal cortical interneurons. Journal of Neuroscience (in press).

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Gruber, A.J., and O'Donnell, P. Bursting activation of prefrontal cortex drives sustained up states in nucleus accumbens spiny neurons in vivo. Synapse (in press).

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Benoit-Marand, M., and O'Donnell, P. Cortico-accumbens fiber stimulation does not induce dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens in vitro. Brain Structure and Function 213 (2008) 177-182.

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Brady, A.M., McCallum, S.E., Glick, S.D., and O'Donnell, P. Enhanced methamphetamine self-administration in a neurodevelopmental rat model of schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology 200 (2008) 205-215.

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Kasanetz, F., Riquelme, L.A., Della-Maggiore, V., O'Donnell, P. and Murer, M.G. Functional integration across a gradient of corticostriatal channels controls up state transitions in the dorsal striatum. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 (2008) 8124-8129.

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Snyder-Keller, A., Tseng, K.Y., Lyng, G.D., Graber, D.J., and O'Donnell, P. Afferent influences on striatal development in organotypic co-cultures. Synapse 62 (2008) 487-500.

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Benoit-Marand, M., and O'Donnell, P. D2 dopamine modulation of cortico-accumbens synaptic responses changes during adolescence. European Journal of Neuroscience 27 (2008) 1364-1372.

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Bloomfield, C.L., O'Donnell, P., French, S.J., and Totterdell, S. Cholinergic neurons of the rat striatum are immunoreactive for glutamatergic NMDA2D but not NMDA2C receptor subunits. Neuroscience 150 (2007) 639-646.

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Tseng, K.Y., Lewis, B.L., Lipska, B.K., and O'Donnell, P. Post-pubertal disruption of medial prefrontal cortical dopamine-glutamate interactions in a developmental animal model of schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 62 (2007) 730-738.

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Tseng, K.Y. and O'Donnell, P. D2 dopamine receptors recruit a GABA component for their attenuation of excitatory synaptic transmission in the adult rat prefrontal cortex. Synapse 61 (2007) 843-850.

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Roy, K., Murtie, J.C., El-Khodor, B.F., Edgar, N., Sardi, S.P., Hooks, B.M., Benoit-Marand, M., Chen, C., Moore, H., O'Donnell, P., Bruner, D., and Corfas, G. Loss of erbB signaling in oligodendrocytes alters myelin and dopaminergic function, a potential mechanism for neuropsychiatric disorders. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104 (2007) 8131-8136.

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Tseng KY, O'Donnell P. Prefrontal cortical interneurons acquire modulation by D2 dopamine receptors during adolescence. Cerebral Cortex 17 (2007) 1235-1240.

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Tseng KY, Snyder-Keller A, O'Donnell P. Dopaminergic modulation of striatal plateau depolarizations in corticostriatal organotypic cocultures. Psychopharmacology 191 (2007) 627-640.

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Kasanetz F, Riquelme LA, O'Donnell P, Murer MG. Turning off cortical ensembles stops striatal up states and elicits phase perturbations in cortical and striatal slow oscillantions in rat in vivo. Journal of Physiology 577 (2006) 97-113..

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Tseng KY, Amin F, Lewis BL, O'Donnell P. Altered prefrontal cortical metabolic response to mesocortical activation in adult animals with a neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion. Biological Psychiatry 60 (2006) 585-590.

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Tseng KY, Mallet N, Toreson K, Le Moine C, Gonon F, O'Donnell P. Excitatory response of prefrontal cortical fast-spiking interneurons to ventral tegmental area stimulation in vivo. Synapse 59 (2006) 412-417.

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Wolf JA, Moyer JT, Lazarewicz MT, Contreras D, Benoit-Marand, M, O’Donnell P, and Finkel LH. NMDA/AMPA ratio impacts state transitions and entrainment to oscillations in a computational model of the nucleus accumbens medium spiny projection neuron. Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2005) 9080-9095.

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O’Donnell, P. Mesolimbic-mesocortical loops may encode saliency, not just reward. Behavioral & Brain Sciences – commentary 28 (2005) 360-361.

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Brady, AM, Glick, SD, and O’Donnell, P. Selective disruption of nucleus accumbens gating mechanisms in rats behaviorally sensitized to methamphetamine Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2005) 6687-6695.

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Peters, Y.M. and O'Donnell, P. Social isolation rearing affects prefrontal cortical response to ventral tegmental area stimulation. Biological Psychiatry 57 (2005) 1205-1208.

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Peters, Y.M., O'Donnell, P. and Carelli, R.M. Prefrontal cortical cell firing during maintenance, extinction and reinstatement of goal-directed behavior for natural reward. Synapse 56 (2005) 74-83.

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Tseng, K.Y. and O'Donnell, P. Post-pubertal emergence of prefrontal cortical oscillations induced by D1-NMDA co-activation. Cerebral Cortex 15 (2005) 49-57.

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Tseng, KY, and O'Donnell, P. Dopamine-glutamate interactions controlling prefrontal cortical pyramidal cell excitability involve multiple signaling mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience 24 (2004) 5131-5139.

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Peters, Y., Barhnardt, N.E. and O'Donnell, P. Prefrontal cortical up states are synchronized with ventral tegmental area activity. Synapse 52 (2004) 143-152.

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Brady, A.M. and O'Donnell, P. Dopaminergic modulation of prefrontal cortical input to nucleus accumbens in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience 24 (2004) 1040-1049.

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Goto, Y. and O'Donnell, P. Prefrontal lesion reverses abnormal mesoaccumbens response in an animal model of schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 55 (2004) 172-176.

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O'Donnell, P. Dopamine gating of forebrain neural ensembles. European Journal of Neuroscience 17 (2003) 429-435.

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Goto, Y. and O'Donnell, P. Delayed mesolimbic system alteration in a developmental animal model of schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience 22 (2002) 9070-9077.

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Goto, Y. and O'Donnell, P. Timing-dependent limbic-motor synaptic integration in the nucleus accumbens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (2002) 13189-13193.

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O'Donnell, P., Lewis, B.L., Weinberger, D.R., and Lipska, B.K. Neonatal hippocampal damage alters electrophysiological properties of prefrontal cortical neurons in adult rats. Cerebral Cortex 12 (2002) 975-982.

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Goto, Y. and O'Donnell, P. Network synchrony in the nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience 21 (2001) 4498-4504.

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Goto, Y. and O'Donnell, P. Synchronous activity in the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience 21 (2001) RC131.

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Wang, J. and O'Donnell, P. D1 dopamine receptors potentiate NMDA-mediated excitability increase in rat prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons. Cerebral Cortex 11 (2001) 452-462.

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Lewis, B.L. and O'Donnell, P. Ventral tegmental area afferents to the prefrontal cortex maintain membrane potential 'up' states in pyramidal neurons via D1 dopamine receptors. Cerebral Cortex 10 (2000) 1168-1175.

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O’Donnell, P., Greene, J., Pabello, N., Lewis, B.L. and Grace, A.A. Modulation of cell firing in the nucleus accumbens. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 877, (1999) 157-175.

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O’Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Disruption of information flow within cortical-limbic circuits and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. In: Schizophrenia in a Molecular Age. C.A. Tamminga, Ed. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC (1999) 109-140.


O’Donnell, P. Ensemble coding in the nucleus accumbens. Psychobiology 27 (1999) 187-197.


O’Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Dysfunction in multiple interrelated systems as the neurobiological bases of schizophrenic symptom clusters. Schizophrenia Bulletin 24 (1998) 267-283.

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Older Publications:


Carr, D.B., O'Donnell, P., Card, J.P. and Sesack, S.R. Dopamine terminals in the rat prefrontal cortex synapse on pyramidal cells that project to the nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience 19 (1999) 11049-11060.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Phencyclidine interferes with the hippocampal gating of nucleus accumbens neuronal activity in vivo. Neuroscience 87 (1998) 823-830.

O'Donnell, P., Lavín, A., Enquist, L.W., Grace, A.A., and Card, J.P. Interconnected parallel circuits between rat nucleus accumbens and thalamus revealed by retrograde transynaptic transport of pseudorabies virus. Journal of Neuroscience 17 (1997) 2143-2167.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Cortical afferents modulate striatal gap junction permeability via nitric oxide. Neuroscience 76 (1997) 1-5.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Dopaminergic reduction of excitability in nucleus accumbens neurons recorded in vitro. Neuropsychopharmacology 15 (1996) 87-97.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Different effects of subchronic clozapine and haloperidol on dye coupling between neurons in the rat striatal complex. Neuroscience 66 (1995) 763-767.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Synaptic interactions among excitatory afferents to nucleus accumbens neurons: Hippocampal gating of prefrontal cortical input. Journal of Neuroscience 15 (1995) 3622-3639.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Tonic D2-mediated attenuation of cortical excitation in nucleus accumbens neurons recorded in vitro. Brain Research 634 (1994) 105-112.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Dopaminergic modulation of dye coupling between neurons in the core and shell region of the nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience 13 (1993) 3456-3471.

O'Donnell, P. and Grace, A.A. Physiological and morphological properties of accumbens core and shell neurons recorded in vitro. Synapse 13 (1993) 135-160.


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