Publications

2020-Present

Warlow SM, Singhal SM, Hollon NG, Faget L, Dowlat DS, Zell V, Hunker AC, Zweifel LS, Hnasko TS. (2023) Mesoaccumbal glutamate neurons drive reward via glutamate release but aversion via dopamine co-release. Neuron.

doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.11.002.

Warlow SM & Berridge KC (2021) Incentive motivation: ‘wanting’ roles of central amygdala circuitry. Behavioral Brain Research, 411:113376.

doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113376

Zell V, Steinkellner T, Hollon NG, Warlow SM, Souter E, Faget L, Hunker AC, Jin X, Zweifel LS, Hnasko TS. (2020) VTA Glutamate Neuron Activity Drives Positive Reinforcement Absent Dopamine Co-release. Neuron.

doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.011

Warlow SM, Naffziger EE, Berridge KC (2020) The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain. Nature Communications, 11(1):2716.

doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16407-1

Featured in “Editor’s Highlights: From brain to behaviour”; Faculty of 1000 recommended

Olney, JJ, Warlow, SM, Naffziger, EE, & Berridge, KC (2018) Current Perspectives on Reward Incentive Salience and Applications to Clinical Disorders. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 22:59-69.

doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.007

Warlow, SM, Robinson, MJF & Berridge, KC (2017) Optogenetic amygdala stimulation intensifies and narrows motivation for cocaine. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(35):8330-8348

doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.3141-16.2017

Robinson, MJF, Warlow, SM, & Berridge, KC (2014) Optogenetic excitation of central amygdala amplifies and narrows incentive motivation to pursue one reward above another. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(50):16567-80

doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.2013-14.2014

Featured in “This week in the journal”

2014-2019

Textbook Chapters

Warlow SM, Baumgartner H, Freeland CM, Naffziger E, Olney J, Berridge KC, Robinson MJF (2020) Sensitization of Incentive Salience and the Transition to Addiction. Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions, ed: Steve Yale Sussman, Cambridge University Press, pg. 23-37