Elizabeth A. West

Behavioral flexibility and gut microbiome as potential predictors of oral oxycodone self-administration.

The paper investigates if behavioral flexibility and gut microbiome predict oxycodone self-administration in rats, finding both factors associate with drug intake.

Aberrant medial prefrontal cortex activity and flexible behavior in the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer's disease

This study investigates cognitive deficits in TgF344-AD rats, finding impaired learning and flexible behavior linked to altered medial prefrontal cortex activity during reward prediction and outcome devaluation.

Medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus reuniens are critical for working memory in an operant delayed nonmatch task

This study identifies the medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus reuniens as critical for working memory in an operant delayed nonmatch task, showing that mPFC-RE circuitry is necessary for performance.

Prelimbic cortex neural encoding dynamically tracks expected outcome value

This study shows that neural activity in the prelimbic cortex tracks expected outcome values and predicts behavioral suppression after reward devaluation.