JAMES CORTRIGHT
jcortrig@bsd.uchicago.edu

Lab: Dr. Paul Vezina

Research Topic: Investigating behavioral, molecular, and neuroanatomical changes following nicotine exposure.

Selected Publications:

Cortright JJ & Rebec GV (2006) Ascorbate modulation of sensorimotor processing in striatum of freely moving rats. Brain Res 1092: 108-116. Paper

Baunez C, Cortright JJ, and Rebec GV. Differential coding for natural and cocaine reward in the subthalamic nucleus of rats. In preparation.

Cortright JJ, Kosobud AEK, & Rebec GV. Neuronal activity in nucleus accumbens core and shell of high alcohol drinking rats during operant responding for sucrose, ethanol, or a mixed solution. In preparation.

Cortright JJ & Rebec GV. Role of the subthalamic nucleus in the circuitry mediating food- and cocaine-seeking behavior. In preparation.

Selected Abstracts/Presentations:

Cortright JJ & Rebec GV. (2007) Electrophysiological correlates in nucleus accumbens during food- and cocaine-seeking behavior in rats following bilateral subthalamic nucleus lesions. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. Abstract

Cortright JJ, Kosobud AEK & Rebec GV. (2004) Electrophysiological recordings in nucleus accumbens core and shell of high alcohol drinking rats during operant responding for either sucrose, ethanol, or a mixed solution. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. Abstract

Cortright JJ, Rebec GV & Baunez C. (2005) Electrophysiological recording in subthalamic nucleus during cocaine-seeking behavior in rats. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. Abstract

Baunez C, Cortright JJ, & Rebec GV (July 2006) Electrophysiological activity of subthalamic nucleus neurons in rats working for sucrose or cocaine reward. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Vienna, Austria. Abstract

Baunez C, Cortright JJ & Rebec GV (2006) Coding of various types of reward within the rat’s subthalamic nucleus. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. Abstract

Cortright JJ & Rebec GV (2006) Electrophysiological recording in nucleus accumbens during cocaine-seeking behavior in subthalamic nucleus-lesioned rats. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. Abstract