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Veronica A. Alvarez, Ph.D

Affiliations: 
NIAAA National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 
Area:
synaptic physiology and morphology, addiction
Website:
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/IntramuralResearch/AboutDICBR/LIN/Section_NS.htm
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Bernardo L. Sabatini post-doc Harvard Medical School
John T. Williams post-doc OHSU

Children

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Nicole (Capik) Crowley research assistant NIAAA
Roland Bock research assistant 2008- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Paul F. Kramer research assistant 2009- NIAAA
Mark V. Wilcox research assistant 2011- NIAAA
Evan S Swanson research assistant 2022-
Alanna R. Kaplan research assistant 2011-2013 NIAAA
Mariah Blegen research assistant 2013-2015 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Erin M. Murray research assistant 2019-2022 NIAAA/NIH
Anoo Maskeri research assistant 2020-2022
Jacqueline B Mehr research assistant 2022-2023 NIAAA/NIH
Kathryn B. Holroyd grad student
Hannah C. Goldbach grad student 2021- NIAAA
Dennis A. Burke grad student 2015-2022 NIAAA/NIH
Alfonso junior Apicella post-doc NIH
Miriam E. Bocarsly post-doc NIH
Jun Hoon Shin post-doc NIH
Lauren K. Dobbs post-doc 2012- National Institute of Health
Julia C. Lemos post-doc 2012- NIAAA/NIH
Michael E. Authement post-doc 2017- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Paule Valery Joseph research scientist 2020- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda

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Bocarsly ME, Shaw MJ, Ventriglia E, et al. (2024) Preexisting risk-avoidance and enhanced alcohol relief are driven by imbalance of the striatal dopamine receptors in mice. Nature Communications. 15: 9093
Xi ZX, Bocarsly ME, Galaj E, et al. (2024) Presynaptic and postsynaptic mesolimbic dopamine D receptors play distinct roles in cocaine versus opioid reward in mice. Biological Psychiatry
da Silva D, Matsui A, Murray EM, et al. (2023) Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 limits dopamine D1 receptor signaling in striatum and biases against heavy persistent alcohol drinking. Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Guerri L, Dobbs LK, da Silva E Silva DA, et al. (2022) Low Dopamine D2 Receptor Expression Drives Gene Networks Related to GABA, cAMP, Growth and Neuroinflammation in Striatal Indirect Pathway Neurons. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 3: 1104-1115
Dai KZ, Choi IB, Levitt R, et al. (2022) Dopamine D2 receptors bidirectionally regulate striatal enkephalin expression: Implications for cocaine reward. Cell Reports. 40: 111440
Razidlo JA, Fausner SML, Ingebretson AE, et al. (2022) Chronic loss of muscarinic M5 receptor function manifests disparate impairments in exploratory behavior in male and female mice despite common dopamine regulation. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience
Burke DA, Alvarez VA. (2022) Serotonin receptors contribute to dopamine depression of lateral inhibition in the nucleus accumbens. Cell Reports. 39: 110795
Markovic T, Pedersen CE, Massaly N, et al. (2021) Pain induces adaptations in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to drive anhedonia-like behavior. Nature Neuroscience
Al-Hasani R, Gowrishankar R, Schmitz GP, et al. (2021) Author Correction: Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement. Nature Neuroscience
Al-Hasani R, Gowrishankar R, Schmitz GP, et al. (2021) Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement. Nature Neuroscience
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