Brandon I Garcia-Castañeda

This study shows that activating astrocyte Gq signaling in the ventral tegmental area affects cocaine-associated behaviors differently in drug-naive and cocaine-experienced rats.

This study shows that stress affects reward learning differently in female rats depending on their estrous cycle stage and prior stress exposure history.

This study investigates how nucleus accumbens dopamine responds to reward-related stimuli during trace conditioning, finding bidirectional dopamine changes correlate with response latency.