Neurophysiological Pharmacology Section - Publications

• Walters JR, Hu D, Itoga CA, Parr-Brownlie LC, Bergstrom DA (2007) Phase Relationships Support a Role for Coordinated Activity in the Indirect Pathway in Organizing Slow Oscillations in Basal Ganglia Output after Loss of Dopamine , Neuroscience 144, 762-776.

• Parr-Brownlie, LC., Poloskey,SL, Gonzales, KK, Bergstrom, DA and Walters, JR (2007) Dopamine-lesion-induced changes in subthalamic nucleus activity are not associated with alterations in firing rate or pattern in layer V neurons of the anterior cingulate cortex in anesthetized rats , Eur. J. Neurosci 26, 1925-1939.

• Allers KA, Bergstrom DA, Ghazi LJ, Kreiss DS and Walters JR (2005) MK801 and amantadine exert different effects on subthalamic neuronal activity in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease, Experimental Neurology 191, 104-118. Full Text/Abstract

• Walters JR, Hu D, Itoga CA, Parr-Brownlie LC and Bergstrom DA (2005) Do local field potentials reflect synchronized spiking activity of neuronal populations in the basal ganglia? Studies in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease, The Basal Ganglia VIII, edited by JP Bolam, C Ingham and PJ Magill , 37-46.

• Castellanos FX, Sonuga-Barke EJS, Scheres A, DiMartino A, Hyde C and Walters JR (2005) Varieties of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-related intra-individual variability, Biological Psychiatry 57, 1416-1423. Full Text/Abstract

• Hutchison WD, Dostrovsky JO, Walters JR, Courtemanche R, Boraud T, Goldberg J and Brown P (2004) Neuronal oscillations in the basal ganglia and movement disorders: evidence from whole animal and human recordings, Journal of Neuroscience 24, 9240-9243. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA, Tierney PL and Walters JR (2003) Correlated multisecond oscillations in firing rate in the basal ganglia: modulation by dopamine and the subthalamic nucleus, Neuroscience 117, 427-438. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA and Walters JR (2002) Nigrostriatal lesion and dopamine agonists affect firing patterns of rodent entopeduncular nucleus neurons, Journal of Neurophysiology 88, 487-496. Full Text/Abstract

• Allers KA, Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA, Freeman LE, Ghazi LJ, Tierney PL and Walters JR (2002) Multisecond periodicities in basal ganglia firing rates correlate with theta bursts in transcortical and hippocampal EEG, Journal of Neurophysiology 87, 1118-1122. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA, Shenker A, Freeman LE, Baek D and Walters JR (2001) Drugs used in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder affect firing rate and oscillation without preferential dopamine autoreceptor action, Biological Psychiatry 49, 340-350. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA, Baek D, Freeman LE and Walters JR (2001) Cocaine or selective block of dopamine transporters influences multisecond oscillations in firing rate in the globus pallidus, Neuropsychopharmacology 25, 28-40. Full Text/Abstract

• Walters JR, Bergstrom DA, Molnar LR, Freeman LE and Ruskin DN (2001) Effects of dopamine receptor stimulation on basal ganglia activity, Basal Ganglia and Thalamus in Health and Movement Disorders, edited by K Kultas-Ilinsky & IA Ilinsky , 135-150.

• Walters JR, Ruskin DN, Baek D, Allers KA and Bergstrom DA (2001) Cognitive function paradigms: implications of neurophysiological studies of dopamine stimulants for Tourette Syndrome and comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders, edited by DJ Cohen, J Jankovic and CG Goetz , 133-149.

• Walters JR, Ruskin DN, Allers KA and Bergstrom DA (2000) Pre- and postsynaptic aspects of dopamine-mediated transmission, Trends in Neurosciences 23 (Suppl), S41-S47.

• Allers KA, Kreiss DS and Walters JR (2000) Multisecond oscillations in the subthalamic nucleus: effects of apomorphine and dopamine cell lesion, Synapse 38, 38-50. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA and Walters JR (1999) Multisecond oscillations in firing rate in the globus pallidus: synergistic modulation by D1 and D2 dopamine receptors, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 290, 1493-1501. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA, Kaneoke Y, Patel BN, Twery MJ and Walters JR (1999) Multisecond oscillations in firing rate in the basal ganglia: robust modulation by dopamine receptor activation and anesthesia, Journal of Neurophysiology 81, 2046-2055. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Bergstrom DA, Mastropietro CW, Twery MJ and Walters JR (1999) Dopamine agonist-mediated rotation in rats with unilateral nigrostriatal lesions is not dependent on net inhibitions of rate in basal ganglia output nuclei, Neuroscience 91, 935-946. Full Text/Abstract

• Ruskin DN, Rawji SS and Walters JR (1998) Effects of full D1 dopamine receptor agonists on firing rates in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra pars compacta in vivo: tests for D1 receptor selectivity and comparisons to the partial agonist SKF 38393, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 286, 272-281. Full Text/Abstract

• Huang K-X, Bergstrom DA, Ruskin DN and Walters JR (1998) N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor blockage attenuates D1 dopamine receptor modulation of neuronal activity in rat substantia nigra, Synapse 30, 18-29. Full Text/Abstract

• Kreiss DS, Mastropietro CW, Rawji SS and Walters JR (1997) The response of subthalamic nucleus neurons to dopamine receptor stimulation in a rodent model of Parkinson's Disease, Journal of Neuroscience 17, 6807-6819. Full Text/Abstract

• Huang K-X and Walters JR (1996) Dopaminergic regulation of AP-1 transcription factor DNA binding in rat striatum, Neuroscience 75, 757-775. Full Text/Abstract

• Kreiss DS, Anderson LA and Walters JR (1996) Apomorphine and dopamine D1 receptor agonists increase the firing rate of subthalamic nucleus neurons, Neuroscience 72, 863-876. Full Text/Abstract