Mark John Ferris, PhD

About Me

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

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.
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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