Publications

See below for some representative publications. Then see the complete list of our published work in MyBibliography:

  • King CP, Tripi JA, Hughson AR, Horvath AP, Lamparelli AC, Holl KL, Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Richards JB, Solberg Woods LC, Palmer AA, Robinson TE, Flagel SB, Meyer PJ. Genetic Loci Influencing Cue‐Reactivity in Heterogeneous Stock Rats. (2025) Genes Brain Behav. 24(2):e70018.
  • Rakowski EA, King CP, Thompson BM, Santos G, Holmes E, Solberg Woods LC, Polesskaya O, Palmer AA, Meyer PJ. Dissociation of intake and incentive sensitization during intermittent- and continuous-access heroin self-administration in rats. (2025) Psychopharmacology. doi: 10.1007/s00213-025-06762-6. PMID: 39979648.
  • Santhanam N, Sanchez-Roige S, Liang Y, Chitre AS, Munro D, Chen D, Cheng R, Nyasimi F, Perry M, Gao J, George AM, Gileta A, Holl K, Hughson A, King CP, Lamparelli AC, Martin CD, Martinez AG, Mi S, Pierre CLS, Tripi JA, Wang T, Chen H, Flagel S, Ishiwari K, Meyer PJ, Saba L, Solberg Woods LC, Polesskaya O, Palmer AA, Im HK. RatXcan: Framework for translating genetic results between species via transcriptome-wide association analyses. (2025) PLoS Genet. Mar 31;21(3):e1011583. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011583. PMID: 40163524; PMCID: PMC12052193.
  • Okamoto F, Chitre A, Sanches T, Chen D, Munro D, Aron A, Beeson A, Bimschleger H, Eid M, Garcia Martinez A, Han W, Holl K, Jackson T, Johnson B, King CP, Kuhn B, Lamparelli AC, Netzley A, Nguyen K, Peng B, Tripi JA, Wang T, Ziegler K, Adams D, Baud A, Carrette L, Chen H, de Guglielmo G, Dorrestein P, George O, Ishiwari K, Jablonski M, Jhou T, Kallupi M, Knight R, Meyer PJ, Solberg Woods L, Polesskaya O, Palmer AA. Y and Mitochondrial Chromosomes in the Heterogeneous Stock Rat Population. (2024) Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 14(11):jkae213.
  • Ishiwari K, Tripi JA, King CP, George AM, Martin CD, Lamparelli AC, Chitre A, Polesskaya O, Solberg Woods LC, Palmer AA, Richards JB, Meyer PJ. Environmental enrichment promotes adaptive responding during tests of behavioral regulation in male heterogeneous stock rats. (2023) Scientific Reports. 14(1):4182.
  • Gancarz AM, Mitchell SH, George AM, Martin CD, Turk MC, Bool HM, Aktar F, Kwarteng F, Palmer AA, Meyer PJ, Richards JB, Dietz DM, Ishiwari K. Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats. (2023) Scientific Reports. Apr 29;13(1):7027. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-34179-8. PMID: 37120610.
  • Freda PJ, Ghosh A, Zhang E, Luo T, Chitre A, Polesskaya O, St. Pierre CL, Gao J, Martin CD, Chen H, Garcia-Martinez, Wang T, Han W, Ishiwari K, Meyer PJ, Lamparelli A*, King CP*, Palmer AA, Li R, Moore JH (2023). Automated quantitative trait locus analysis (AutoQTL). BioData Mining Apr 10;16(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13040-023-00331-3. PMCID:10088184.
  • Wright SN, Leger BS, Rosenthal SB, Liu S, Tongqiu J, Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Holl K, Gao J, Cheng R, Garcia Martinez A, George A, Gileta AF, Han W, Netzley AH, King CP*, Lamparelli A*, Martin C, St. Pierre CL, Wang T, Bimschleger H, Richards J, Ishiwari K, Chen H, Flagel SB, Meyer PJ, Robinson TE, Solberg Woods LC, Kreisberg JF, Ideker T, Palmer AA (2023) Genome-wide association studies of human and rat BMI converge on synapse, epigenome, and hormone signaling networks. Cell Reports.
  • Chitre A, Polesskaya O, Munro D, Cheng R, Mohammadi P, Holl K, Gao J, Bimschleger H, Garcia Martinez A, George A, Gileta A, Han W, Horvath A, Hughson A, Keita I, King CP, Lamparelli A, Versaggi C, Martin C, St. Pierre C, Tripi JA, Richards J, Wang T, Chen H, Flagel S, Meyer PJ, Robinson TE, Solberg Woods L, Palmer AA (2023) Exponential increase in QTL detection with increased sample size. Genetics Mar 28:iyad054. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad054. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36974931.
  • Angelyn H, Loney GC, Meyer PJ (2021) Nicotine enhances goal-tracking in ethanol and food Pavlovian conditioned approach. Frontiers in Neuroscience Aug 18;15:561766. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.561766. PMCID:8416423.
  • Wakabayashi KT, Feja M, Leigh MPK, Baindur AN, Suarez M, Meyer PJ, Bass CE (2021) Chemogenetic activation of mesoaccumbal Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid projections selectively tunes responses to predictive cues when reward value is unexpectedly decreased. Biological Psychiatry 89(4): 366-375
  • Loney GC, King CP, Meyer PJ (2021) Systemic nicotine enhances opioid self-administration and modulates the formation of opioid-associated memories partly through actions within the insular cortex. Scientific Reports 11: 3321.
  • King CP, Meyer PJ. The incentive amplifying effects of nicotine: Roles in alcohol seeking and consumption. Adv Pharmacol. 2022;93:171-218.doi: 10.1016/bs.apha.2021.10.008. Epub 2022 Jan 11. PMID: 35341566; PMCID: PMC9707303
  • King CP, Tripi JA, Hughson AR, Horvath AP, Lamparelli AC, Holl KL, Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Richards JB, Solberg Woods LC, Palmer AA, Robinson TE, Flagel SB, Meyer PJ (2020) Sensitivity to food and cocaine cues are independent traits in a large sample of heterogeneous stock rats. Scientific Reports. 11, 2223.
  • Peterson VL, Richards JB, Meyer PJ, Cabrera-Rubio R, Tripi JA, King CP, Polesskaya O, Baud A, Chitre A, Bastiaanssen TFS, Solberg Woods L, Crispie F, Dinan TG, Cotter PD, Palmer AA, Cryan JF (2020). Sex-dependent Associations between Addiction-related Behaviors and the Microbiome. EBioMedicine 55:102769
  • Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Holl K, Gao J, Cheng R, Bimschleger H, Garcia Martinez A, George T, Gileta AF, Han W, Horvath A, Hughson A, Ishiwari K, King CP, Lamparelli A, Versaggi CL, Martin C, St Pierre CL, Tripi JA, Wang T, Chen H, Flagel SB, Meyer PJ, Richards J, Robinson TE, Palmer AA, Solberg Woods LC. (2020) Genome-Wide Association Study in 3,173 Outbred Rats Identifies Multiple Loci for Body Weight, Adiposity, and Fasting Glucose. Obesity 2020 Oct; 28(10):1964-1973
  • Loney GC, Angelyn H, Meyer PJ (2019) Nicotine produces a high-approach, low-avoidance phenotype in response to alcohol-associated cues in male rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Jun; 43:1284-1295
  • Loney GC, Meyer PJ (2019) Nicotine reduces the sensitivity to the interoceptive properties of commonly abused drugs as assessed with taste conditioning paradigms. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Jan 1;194:341-350
  • Loney GC, Pautassi RM, Kapadia D, Meyer PJ (2018) Nicotine affects ethanol-conditioned taste, but not place, aversion in a simultaneous conditioning procedure. Alcohol 71: 47-55
  • Loney GC, Meyer PJ (2018) Brief exposures to the taste of ethanol (EtOH) and quinine promote subsequent acceptance of EtOH in a paradigm that minimizes postingestive consequences. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. Dec 14
  • Pasquariello KP, Han M, Unal C, Meyer PJ (2017) Adrenergic manipulation inhibits Pavlovian conditioned approach behaviors. Behavioral Brain Research 339: 278-285
  • King CP, Militello L, Hart A, St Pierre CL, Leung E, Catlin J, Roberson NP, Versaggi CL, Palmer AA, Richards JB, Meyer PJ (2017) Cdh13 and AdipoQ gene knockout alters instrumental and Pavlovian drug conditioning. Genes, Brain, & Behavior
  • Tripi JA, Dent MD, Meyer PJ (2016) Individual differences in food-cue responsivity are associated with cocaine-induced ultrasonic vocalizations. Psychopharmacology 234(3): 437-446
  • Ahrens AM, Meyer PJ, Ferguson LM, Robinson TE, Aldridge JW (2016) Neural activity in the ventral pallidum encodes variation in the incentive value of a reward cue. The Journal of Neuroscience 36(30): 7957-7970
  • Versaggi CL, King CP, Meyer PJ (2016) The tendency to sign-track predicts cue-induced reinstatement during nicotine self-administration, and is enhanced by nicotine but not ethanol. Psychopharmacology
  • King CP, Palmer AA, Solberg Woods LC, Richards JB, Meyer PJ (2016) Premature responding is associated with approach to a food cue in male and female heterogeneous stock rats. Psychopharmacology
  • Meyer PJ, King CP, & Ferarrio C (2015) Motivational processes involved in substance abuse disorder. Current Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Meyer PJ, Cogan ES, Robinson TE (2014) The form of a conditioned stimulus can influence the degree to which it acquires incentive motivational properties. PLoS One 9: e98163. PMCID: 4048203
  • Fitzpatrick CJ, Gopalakrishnan S, Cogan ES, Yager LM, Meyer PJ, Lovic V, Saunders BT, Parker CC, Gonzales NM, Flagel SB, Palmer AA, Robinson TE, Morrow JD (2013) Variation in the form of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior among outbred male Sprague-Dawley rats from different vendors and colonies. PLoS One PMCID: 3787975
  • Paolone G, Angelakos CC, Meyer PJ, Robinson TE, Sarter M (2013) Cholinergic control over attention in rats prone to attribute incentive salience to reward cues. The Journal of Neuroscience 33: 8321-8335. PMCID: 3690461
  • Meyer PJ, Lovic V, Saunders BT, Yager LM, Flagel SB, Morrow JD, Robinson TE (2012) Quantifying individual variation in the propensity to attribute incentive salience to reward cues. PLoS One 7: e38987. PMCID: 3578944
  • Pastor R, Reed C, Meyer PJ, McKinnon C, Ryabinin AE, Phillips TJ (2012) Role of corticotropin releasing factor and corticosterone in ethanol-induced behavioral sensitization. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 341(2): 455-463. PMCID: 3336812
  • Meyer PJ, Ma ST, Robinson TE (2012) A cocaine cue is more preferred and evokes more frequency-modulated 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats prone to attribute incentive salience to a food cue. Psychopharmacology 219: 999-1009. PMCID: 3578944
  • Meyer PJ, Morgan MM, Kozell LB, Ingram SL (2009) Contribution of dopamine receptors to periaqueductal gray-mediated antinociception. Psychopharmacology 204: 531-540. PMCID: 3399690
  • Meyer PJ, Fossum EN, Ingram SL, Morgan MM (2007) Analgesic tolerance to microinjection of the µ-opioid agonist DAMGO into the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray. Neuropharmacology 52: 1580-1585. PMCID: 1971241
  • Meyer PJ, Meshul CK, Phillips TJ (2009) Ethanol- and cocaine-induced locomotion are genetically related to increases in accumbal dopamine. Genes, Brain, & Behavior 8: 346-355. PMCID: 2768278
  • Meyer PJ, Phillips TJ (2007) Behavioral sensitization to ethanol does not result in cross-sensitization to NMDA receptor antagonists. Psychopharmacology 195: 103-115. PMID: 17653696
  • Holstein S, Pastor R, Meyer PJ, Phillips TJ (2005) Naloxone does not attenuate the locomotor effects of ethanol in FAST, SLOW, or two heterogeneous stocks of mice. Psychopharmacology 182: 277-289. PMID: 15990998
  • Meyer PJ, Palmer AA, McKinnon C, Phillips TJ (2005) Behavioral sensitization to ethanol is modulated by environmental conditions, but is not associated with cross-sensitization to allopregnanolone or pentobarbital in DBA/2J mice. Neuroscience 131: 263-273. PMID: 15708471
  • Meyer PJ, Phillips TJ (2003) Sensitivity to ketamine, alone or in combination with ethanol, is altered in mice selectively bred for ethanol’s locomotor effects. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 27: 1701-1709. PMID: 14634484
  • Meyer PJ, Phillips TJ (2003) Bivalent effects of MK-801 on ethanol sensitization, but no effect on tolerance to ethanol-induced ataxia. Behavioral Neuroscience 117: 641-649. PMID: 12802892
  • Cunningham CL, Tull LE, Rindal KE, Meyer PJ (2002) Distal and proximal pre-exposure to ethanol in the place conditioning task: tolerance to aversive effect, sensitization to activating effect, but no change in rewarding effect. Psychopharmacology 160: 414–424. PMID: 1191966
  • King AC, Meyer PJ (2000) Naltrexone-induced alterations of nicotine response in a cigarette smoking paradigm. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior 66: 563-572. PMID: 1089937