Journal Articles
- Lauren N Beloate and Nanyin Zhang, 2022, "Connecting the dots between cell populations, whole-brain activity and behavior", Neurophotonics, 9, (032208)
- Kuiper B Lindsey and Lauren N Beloate, 2019, "Drug-taking in a socio-sexual context enhances vulnerability for addiction in male rats", Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, (3)
- Lauren N Beloate and Lique M Coolen, 2017, "Influences of social reward experience on behavioral responses to drugs of abuse: Review of shared and divergent neural plasticity mechanisms for sexual reward and drugs of abuse.", Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, pp. 356-372
- Lauren N Beloate, 2016, "Ventral tegmental area dopamine cell activation during male rat sexual behavior regulates neuroplasticity and d-Amphetamine cross-sensitization following sexual abstinence", Journal of Neuroscience, 36, (38), pp. 9949-9961
- Lauren N Beloate, 2015, "Nucleus accumbens NMDA receptor activation regulates amphetamine cross-sensitization and deltaFosB expression following sexual experience in male rats", Neuropharmacology, 101, pp. 154-164
- Kyle K Pitchers, Caroline M Coppens and Nikki Beloate, 2014, "Endogenous opioid-induced neuroplasticity of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area influences natural and opiate reward", Journal of Neuroscience, 34, (26), pp. 8825-8836
- Rusty Nall and Lauren N Beloate, , "Assessing Combined Effects of Varenicline and N-acetylcysteine on Reducing Nicotine Seeking in Rats", Addiction Biology
