Selected Publications
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Lee SS, Venniro M, Shaham Y, Hope BT, Ramsey LA.
Operant social self-administration in male CD1 mice. Psychopharmacology. 2024.Papastrat KM, Lis CA, Caprioli D, Pickard H, Puche AC, Ramsey LA, Venniro M. Social odor buffers drug craving. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2024.
Marino RAM, Venniro M. Calcitonin receptor signal: a potential target for opioid use disorder? Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023.
Ramsey LA, Holloman FM, Lee SS, Venniro M. An operant social self-administration and choice model in mice. Nature Protocols. 2023.
Venniro M, Marino RAM, Chow JJ, Caprioli D, Epstein DH, Ramsey LA, Shaham Y. The protective effect of social reward on opioid and psychostimulant reward and relapse: behavior, pharmacology, and brain regions. Journal of Neuroscience. 2022.
Ramsey LA, Holloman FM, Hope BT, Shaham Y, Venniro M. Waving through the window: a model of volitional social interaction in female mice. Biological Psychiatry. 2022. NIDA Hot Off the Press / UMB News.
Venniro M, Reverte I, Ramsey LA, Papastrat KM, D'Ottavio G, Milella MS, Li X, Grimm JW, Caprioli D. Factors modulating the incubation of drug and non-drug craving and their clinical implications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2021.
Venniro M, Panlilio LV, Epstein DH, Shaham Y. The protective effect of operant social reward on cocaine self-administration, choice, and relapse is dependent on delay and effort for the social reward. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2021. NIDA Hot Off the Press / UMB News.
Fredriksson I, Venniro M, Reiner DJ, Chow JJ, Bossert JM, Shaham Y. Animal Models of Drug Relapse and Craving after Voluntary Abstinence: A Review. Pharmacological Reviews. 2021. NIDA Reviews to Read
Venniro M, Banks ML, Heilig M, Epstein DH, Shaham Y. Improving translation of animal models of addiction and relapse by reverse translation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2020. NIDA Reviews to Read / Faculty Opinions.
Venniro M, Russell TI, Ramsey LA, Richie CT, Lesscher HMB, Giovanetti SM, Messing RO, Shaham Y. Abstinence-dependent dissociable central amygdala microcircuits control drug craving. PNAS. 2020. NIH Science Highlight / NIDA Hot Off the Press.
Venniro M, Shaham Y. An operant social self-administration and choice model in rats. Nature Protocols. 2020. Faculty Opinions.
Venniro M, Russell TI, Zhang M, Shaham Y. Operant social reward decreases incubation of heroin craving in male and female rats. Biological Psychiatry. 2019. NIDA Hot Off the Press / NIH Catalyst / Faculty Opinions / Biological Psychiatry Commentary.
Venniro M, Zhang M, Caprioli D, Hoots JK, Golden SA, Heins C, Morales M, Epstein DH, Shaham Y. Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models. Nature Neuroscience. 2018. Cover November issue / NIDA Hot Off the Press / NIH Science Spotlight / NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow’s blog / NIH Video / NIDA Notes / 12th NIH Matilda White Riley Honors Paper Awards / Faculty Opinions.
Venniro M, Caprioli D, Zhang M, Whitaker LR, Zang S, Warren BL, Cifani C, Marchant NJ, Yizhar O, Bossert JM, Chiamulera C, Morales M, Shaham Y. The anterior insular cortex—>central amygdala glutamatergic pathway is critical to relapse after contingency management. Neuron. 2017. NIDA Hot Off the Press / NIH Science Spotlight / Faculty Opinions.
Caprioli D*, Venniro M*, Zhang M, Bossert JM, Warren BL, Hope BT, Shaham Y. Role of dorsomedial striatum neuronal ensembles in incubation of methamphetamine craving after voluntary abstinence. Journal of Neuroscience. 2017. *Co-first author.
Venniro M, Zhang M, Shaham Y, Caprioli D. Incubation of methamphetamine but not heroin craving after voluntary abstinence in male and female rats. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2017.
Venniro M, Caprioli D, Shaham Y. Animal models of drug relapse: from drug priming induced reinstatement to incubation of craving after voluntary abstinence. Progress in Brain Research. 2016.