Kate Wassum

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Mailing Address:
Franz Hall Room 8548
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES


Email: kwassum@ucla.edu

Publications

Wassum Kate M, Ostlund Sean B, Balleine Bernard W, Maidment Nigel T Differential dependence of Pavlovian incentive motivation and instrumental incentive learning processes on dopamine signaling.. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). 2011; 18(7): 475-83.
Wassum KM, Cely IC, Ostlund SB, Maidment NT, Balleine BW. Disruption of endogenous opioid activity during instrumental learning enhances habit acquisition. Neuroscience 2009; 163(3): 770-80.
Wassum KM, Ostlund SB, Maidment NT, Balleine BW. Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009; 106(30): 12512-7.
Wassum Kate M, Cely Ingrid C, Balleine Bernard W, Maidment Nigel T Micro-opioid receptor activation in the basolateral amygdala mediates the learning of increases but not decreases in the incentive value of a food reward.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2011; 31(5): 1591-9.
Ostlund Sean B, Wassum Kate M, Murphy Niall P, Balleine Bernard W, Maidment Nigel T Extracellular dopamine levels in striatal subregions track shifts in motivation and response cost during instrumental conditioning.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2011; 31(1): 200-7.
Wassum Kate M, Evans Christopher J International Narcotics Research Conference - 39th Annual Meeting.. IDrugs : the investigational drugs journal. 2008; 11(9): 646-9.
Wassum Kate M, Tolosa Vanessa M, Wang Jianjun, Walker Eric, Monbouquette Harold G, Maidment Nigel T Silicon Wafer-Based Platinum Microelectrode Array Biosensor for Near Real-Time Measurement of Glutamate in Vivo.. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland). 2008; 8(8): 5023-5036.
Wightman R Mark, Heien Michael L A V, Wassum Kate M, Sombers Leslie A, Aragona Brandon J, Khan Amina S, Ariansen Jennifer L, Cheer Joseph F, Phillips Paul E M, Carelli Regina M Dopamine release is heterogeneous within microenvironments of the rat nucleus accumbens.. The European journal of neuroscience. 2007; 26(7): 2046-54.
Cheer Joseph F, Wassum Kate M, Sombers Leslie A, Heien Michael L A V, Ariansen Jennifer L, Aragona Brandon J, Phillips Paul E M, Wightman R Mark Phasic dopamine release evoked by abused substances requires cannabinoid receptor activation.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2007; 27(4): 791-5.
Cheer Joseph F, Wassum Kate M, Wightman R Mark Cannabinoid modulation of electrically evoked pH and oxygen transients in the nucleus accumbens of awake rats.. Journal of neurochemistry. 2006; 97(4): 1145-54.
Heien Michael L A V, Khan Amina S, Ariansen Jennifer L, Cheer Joseph F, Phillips Paul E M, Wassum Kate M, Wightman R Mark Real-time measurement of dopamine fluctuations after cocaine in the brain of behaving rats.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005; 102(29): 10023-8.
Cheer Joseph F, Wassum Kate M, Heien Michael L A V, Phillips Paul E M, Wightman R Mark Cannabinoids enhance subsecond dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens of awake rats.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2004; 24(18): 4393-400.

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