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Mark John Ferris, PhD

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Mark John Ferris, PhD

Mark John Ferris, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology

 

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Education
BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2002
MA, University of South Carolina, 2005
PhD, University of South Carolina, 2007
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Society for Neuroscience
Developmental Psychobiology Society
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Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
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Physiology and Pharmacology
Center for Substance Use and Addiction

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  • 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 09; 166:51-60.
  • Social isolation rearing increases dopamine uptake and psychostimulant potency in the striatum.. Yorgason JT, Calipari ES, Ferris MJ, Karkhanis AN, Fordahl SC, Weiner JL, Jones SR. Neuropharmacology. 2016 Feb; 101:471-9.
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