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Graduate Programs in Neuroscience
Program Research Interest: Addiction and Substance Abuse, Behavioral and Systems Neurobiology, Development and Plasticity, Molecular Neurobiology, Neurological Disease and Aging, Neuropharmacology, Sensory Neurobiology

Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology PhD
Program Research Interest: Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Cardiovascular Physiology and Hypertension, Regenerative Medicine, Neuro- and Behavioral Pharmacology, Cancer Therapeutics Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Lifespan Physiology.

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Chronic Social Isolation Stress during Peri-Adolescence Alters Presynaptic Dopamine Terminal Dynamics via Augmentation in Accumbal Dopamine Availability. Karkhanis AN, Leach AC, Yorgason JT, Uneri A, Barth S, Niere F, Alexander NJ, Weiner JL, McCool BA, Raab-Graham KF, Ferris MJ, Jones SR. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2019 Apr; 10(4):2033-2044.
a6ß2 subunit containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors exert opposing actions on rapid dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens of rats with high-versus low-response to novelty. Siciliano CA, McIntosh JM, Jones SR, Ferris MJ. Neuropharmacology. 2017 Nov; 126:281-291.
Reinforcing Doses of Intravenous Cocaine Produce Only Modest Dopamine Uptake Inhibition. Brodnik ZD, Ferris MJ, Jones SR, España RA. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2017 02; 8(2):281-289.
Hypocretin/orexin knock-out mice display disrupted behavioral and dopamine responses to cocaine. Shaw JK, Ferris MJ, Locke JL, Brodnik ZD, Jones SR, España RA. Addict Biol. 2017 Nov; 22(6):1695-1705.
The individual and combined effects of phenmetrazine and mgluR2/3 agonist LY379268 on the motivation to self-administer cocaine. Karkhanis AN, Beveridge TJ, Blough BE, Jones SR, Ferris MJ. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Sep; 166:51-60.

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Mark John Ferris, PhD

Mark John Ferris, PhD

About Me

Educational Program Involvement