Rachel Smith - Texas A&M University (TAMU) Scholar

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Assistant Professor

selected publications

academic article
- Jones, B. O., Cruz, A. M., Kim, T. H., Spencer, H. F., & Smith, R. J. (2022). Discriminating goal-directed and habitual cocaine seeking in rats using a novel outcome devaluation procedure. Learning and Memory. 29(12), 447-457.
- Ma, T., Huang, Z., Xie, X., Cheng, Y., Zhuang, X., Childs, M. J., ... Wang, J. (2022). Chronic alcohol drinking persistently suppresses thalamostriatal excitation of cholinergic neurons to impair cognitive flexibility. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 132(4), e154969.
- Brown, R. M., Dayas, C. V., James, M. H., & Smith, R. J. (2022). New directions in modelling dysregulated reward seeking for food and drugs. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 132, 1037-1048.
- Cruz, A. M., Spencer, H. F., Kim, T. H., Jhou, T. C., & Smith, R. J. (2021). Prelimbic cortical projections to rostromedial tegmental nucleus play a suppressive role in cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking. Neuropsychopharmacology. 46(8), 1399-1406.
- Cruz, A. M., Kim, T. H., & Smith, R. J. (2021). Monosynaptic Retrograde Tracing From Prelimbic Neuron Subpopulations Projecting to Either Nucleus Accumbens Core or Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 15, 639733.
- Smith, R. J., Anderson, R. I., Haun, H. L., Mulholland, P. J., Griffin, W. C., Lopez, M. F., & Becker, H. C. (2020). Dynamic c-Fos changes in mouse brain during acute and protracted withdrawal from chronic intermittent ethanol exposure and relapse drinking. Addiction Biology. 25(6), e12804.
- Smith, R. J., Vento, P. J., Chao, Y. S., Good, C. H., & Jhou, T. C. (2019). Gene expression and neurochemical characterization of the rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg) in rats and mice. 224(1), 219-238.
- Smith, R. J., & Laiks, L. S. (2018). Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying habitual and compulsive drug seeking. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 87(Pt A), 11-21.
- Smith, A., Scofield, M. D., Heinsbroek, J. A., Gipson, C. D., Neuhofer, D., Roberts-Wolfe, D. J., ... Kalivas, P. W. (2017). Accumbens nNOS Interneurons Regulate Cocaine Relapse. 37(4), 742-756.
- Smith, A., Scofield, M. D., Heinsbroek, J. A., Gipson, C. D., Neuhofer, D., Roberts-Wolfe, D. J., ... Kalivas, P. W. (2017). Accumbens nNOS Interneurons Regulate Cocaine Relapse. The Journal of Neuroscience. 37(4), 742-756.
- Beckley, J. T., Randall, P. K., Smith, R. J., Hughes, B. A., Kalivas, P. W., & Woodward, J. J. (2016). Phenotype-dependent inhibition of glutamatergic transmission on nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons by the abused inhalant toluene. Addiction Biology. 21(3), 530-546.
- Scofield, M. D., Boger, H. A., Smith, R. J., Li, H., Haydon, P. G., & Kalivas, P. W. (2015). Gq-DREADD Selectively Initiates Glial Glutamate Release and Inhibits Cue-induced Cocaine Seeking. Biological Psychiatry. 78(7), 441-451.
- Mahler, S. V., Moorman, D. E., Smith, R. J., James, M. H., & Aston-Jones, G. (2014). Motivational activation: a unifying hypothesis of orexin/hypocretin function. Nature Neuroscience. 17(10), 1298-1303.
- Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G. (2014). Incentive learning for morphine-associated stimuli during protracted abstinence increases conditioned drug preference. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39(2), 373-379.
- Mahler, S. V., Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G. (2013). Interactions between VTA orexin and glutamate in cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking in rats. Psychopharmacology. 226(4), 687-698.
- Smith, R. J., Lobo, M. K., Spencer, S., & Kalivas, P. W. (2013). Cocaine-induced adaptations in D1 and D2 accumbens projection neurons (a dichotomy not necessarily synonymous with direct and indirect pathways). Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 23(4), 546-552.
- Zhou, L., Smith, R. J., Do, P. H., Aston-Jones, G., & See, R. E. (2012). Repeated orexin 1 receptor antagonism effects on cocaine seeking in rats. Neuropharmacology. 63(7), 1201-1207.
- Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G. (2012). Orexin/hypocretin 1 receptor antagonist reduces heroin self-administration and cue-induced heroin seeking. European Journal of Neuroscience. 35(5), 798-804.
- Mahler, S. V., Smith, R. J., Moorman, D. E., Sartor, G. C., & Aston-Jones, G. (2012). Multiple roles for orexin/hypocretin in addiction. 198, 79-121.
- Wiggins, A., Smith, R. J., Shen, H., & Kalivas, P. W. (2011). Integrins modulate relapse to cocaine-seeking. 31(45), 16177-16184.
- Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G. (2011). (2) Adrenergic and imidazoline receptor agonists prevent cue-induced cocaine seeking. Biological Psychiatry. 70(8), 712-719.
- Aston-Jones, G., Smith, R. J., Sartor, G. C., Moorman, D. E., Massi, L., Tahsili-Fahadan, P., & Richardson, K. A. (2010). Lateral hypothalamic orexin/hypocretin neurons: A role in reward-seeking and addiction. BRAIN RESEARCH. 1314, 74-90.
- Cason, A. M., Smith, R. J., Tahsili-Fahadan, P., Moorman, D. E., Sartor, G. C., & Aston-Jones, G. (2010). Role of orexin/hypocretin in reward-seeking and addiction: implications for obesity. Physiology and Behavior. 100(5), 419-428.
- Smith, R. J., Tahsili-Fahadan, P., & Aston-Jones, G. (2010). Orexin/hypocretin is necessary for context-driven cocaine-seeking. Neuropharmacology. 58(1), 179-184.
- Smith, R. J., See, R. E., & Aston-Jones, G (2009). Orexin/hypocretin signaling at the orexin 1 receptor regulates cue-elicited cocaine-seeking. European Journal of Neuroscience. 30(3), 493-503.
- Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G. (2009). Inactivating the activated: identifying functions of specific neural networks. Nature Neuroscience. 12(8), 965-966.
- Aston-Jones, G., Smith, R. J., Moorman, D. E., & Richardson, K. A. (2009). Role of lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward processing and addiction. 56 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), 112-121.
- Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G. (2008). Noradrenergic transmission in the extended amygdala: role in increased drug-seeking and relapse during protracted drug abstinence. 213(1-2), 43-61.
- Smith, R. J., Doyle, G. A., Han, A. M., Crowley, J. J., Oslin, D. W., Patkar, A. A., ... Berrettini, W. H (2005). Novel exonic mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) polymorphisms not associated with opioid dependence. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 133B(1), 105-109.
- Talbot, K., Eidem, W. L., Tinsley, C. L., Benson, M. A., Thompson, E. W., Smith, R. J., ... Arnold, S. E. (2004). Dysbindin-1 is reduced in intrinsic, glutamatergic terminals of the hippocampal formation in schizophrenia. 113(9), 1353-1363.
conference paper
- Aston-Jones, G., Mahler, S., Sartor, G., Smith, R., & Moorman, D. (2014). Seeking reward Upstream modulation of VTA dopamine neurons by orexin/hypocretin inputs. 173-174.

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College Station, TX 77843-4235

USA

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rachelsmith@tamu.edu

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