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Harrison L. Blount

University of FloridaORCID 0000-0002-6930-9909Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:rat· 4 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1

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Lori A. KnackstedtiD· 4 shared Marek SchwendtiD· 3 shared Courtney S. WilkinsoniD· 2 shared Lizhen WuiD· 2 shared Allison R. Bechard· 1 shared Carly N. Logan· 1 shared Elizabeth A. Colley· 1 shared Giselle Rojas· 1 shared

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Oxytocin modulates behavioral economic and dopaminergic measures of motivation to seek intravenous oxycodone in rats

Harrison L. Blount, Madison Gits, Elizabeth A. Colley, Jennifer Kang, Courtney S. Wilkinson, Marek Schwendt, Lori A. Knackstedt

This study examines how oxytocin affects opioid seeking and dopamine signaling in rats, finding sex-specific effects on motivation and dopamine release during oxycodone self-administration.

bioRxiv · Oct 19, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Voluntary alcohol intake alters the motivation to seek intravenous oxycodone and neuronal activation during the reinstatement of oxycodone and sucrose seeking

Courtney S. Wilkinson, Harrison L. Blount, Shane Davis, Giselle Rojas, Lizhen Wu, Niall P Murphy, Marek Schwendt, Lori A. Knackstedt

This study shows that voluntary alcohol intake reduces oxycodone seeking in female rats and alters neural activation during cue-primed reinstatement of drug seeking.

Scientific Reports · Nov 6, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Resilience to anxiety and anhedonia after predator scent stress is accompanied by increased nucleus accumbens mGlu5 in female rats

Harrison L. Blount, J. Dee, Lizhen Wu, Marek Schwendt, Lori A. Knackstedt

This study finds that female rats exposed to predator scent stress show distinct behavioral and genetic responses compared to males, with Susceptible females having higher BLA mGlu5 mRNA than Resilient or Control rats.

bioRxiv · Apr 15, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience

Role of prefrontal cortex projections to the nucleus accumbens core in mediating the effects of ceftriaxone on cued cocaine relapse

Allison R. Bechard, Carly N. Logan, Javier R. Mesa, Yasmin Padovan‐Hernandez, Harrison L. Blount, Virginia L. Hodges, Lori A. Knackstedt

This study shows ceftriaxone reduces cocaine relapse and NA core glutamate efflux in rats during context+cue relapse tests by decreasing activity in prelimbic cortex projections to the NA core.

Addiction Biology · Jun 18, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience