(full Open Access list at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/marina.picciotto.1/bibliography/public/)

Yoshida, T.M., Nguyen, M., Zhang, L., Lu, B., Zhu, B., Murray, K., Mineur, Y.S., Zhang, C., Xu, D., Lin, E., Luchsinger, J., Bhatta, S., Waizman, D.A., Coden, M., Ma, Y., Israni-Winger, K., Russo, A., Wang, H., Song, W., Al Souz, J., Zhao, H., Craft, J.E., Picciotto, M.R., Grutzendler, J., Distasio, M., Palm, N.W., Hafler, D.A. and Wang A. (2025) Subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells regulating behavior, Nature, online ahead of print.

Fogaca, M.V., Daher, F. and Picciotto, M.R. (2025) Effects of ketamine on GABAergic and glutamatergic activity in the mPFC: biphasic recruitment of GABA function in antidepressant-like responses, Neuropsychopharmacology, 50(4):673-684. doi: 10.1038/s41386-024-02002-1. PMC11845475

Soares, A.R., Garcia-Rivas, V., Fai, C., Thomas, M., Zheng, X., Picciotto, M.R. and Mineur, Y.S. (2025) Sex differences in the microglial response to stress and chronic alcohol exposure in mice, Biology of Sex Differences, 6(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s13293-025-00701-y. PMC11881309

Kaur, N., Kovner, R., Gulden, F.O., Pletikos, M., Andrijevic, D., Zhu, T., Silbereis, J., Shibata, M., Shibata, A., Liu, Y., Ma, S., Salla, N., de Martin, X., Klarić, T.S., Burke, M., Franjic, D., Cho, H., Yuen, M., Chatterjee, I., Soric, P., Esakkimuthu, D., Moser, M., Santpere, G., Mineur, Y.S., Pattabiraman, K., Picciotto, M.R. Huang, H. and Sestan, N. (2025) Molecular specification of claustro-amygdalar and paleocortical neurons and connectivity, Nature, online open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08361-5. PMC11821539

Garcia-Rivas, V., Soares, A.R., Thomas, M., Na, J.J., Smith, A., Picciotto, M.R. and Mineur, Y.S. (2025) Alcohol drinking is attenuated by PDE4 inhibition in female mice, but stress-induced escalation of intake does not require neuroinflammatory signaling, Alcohol, 122: 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2024.12.004

Wang, J., Liu, Y., Li, H., Nguyen, T.P., Soto-Vargas, J.L., Wilson, R., Wang, W., Lam, T.T., Zhang, C., Lin, C., Traumatic Stress Brain Research Group, Lewis, D.A., Glausier, J., Holtzheimer, P.E., Friedman, M.J., Williams, K.R., Picciotto, M.R., Nairn, A.C., Krystal, J.H., Duman, R.S., Young, K.A., Zhao, H. and Girgenti, M.J. (2025) A multi-omic approach implicates novel protein dysregulation in post-traumatic stress disorder, Genome Med 17(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s13073-025-01473-1. PMC12042318

Abdulla, Z.I., Mineur, Y.S., Crouse, R.B., Etherington, I.M., Yousuf, H., Na, J.J. and Picciotto, M.R. (2024) Acetylcholine signaling in the medial prefrontal cortex mediates the ability to learn an active avoidance response following learned helplessness training, Neuropsychopharmacology, 50(2):488-496. doi: 10.1038/s41386-024-02003-0. PMC11631976

Sieu, L.-A., Singla, S., Sharafeldin, A., Chandrasekaran, G., Valcarce-Aspegren, M., Niknahad, A., Fu, I., Doilicho, N., Gummadavelli, A., McCafferty, C., Crouse, R., Perrenoud, Q., Picciotto, M.R., Cardin, J. and Blumenfeld, H. (2024) Slow and fast cortical cholinergic arousal is reduced in a mouse model of focal seizures with impaired consciousness, Cell Reports, 43(12):115012.  doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.115012. PMC11817788

Lee, P.J., Sun, Y., Soares, A.R., Fai, C., Picciotto, M.R. and Guo, J.U. (2024) Alternative translation initiation produces synaptic organizer proteoforms with distinct localization and functions, Molecular Cell, 84(20):3967-3978.e8.  doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.08.032. PMC11490368

Rajebhosale, P., Ananth, M., Kim, R., Crouse, R., Jiang, L., Hernandez Lopez, G., Zhong, C., Arty, C., Wang, S., Zhong, C., Jone, A., Desai, N.S., Li, Y., Picciotto, M.R., Role, L.W. and Talmage, D.A. (2024) Functionally refined encoding of threat memory by distinct populations of basal forebrain cholinergic projection neurons, eLife, 3:e86581 PMC10928508

Soares, A.R. and Picciotto, M.R. (2024) Nicotinic regulation of microglia: potential contributions to addiction. J Neural Transmission, doi: 10.1007/s00702-023-02703-9 PMC11189589

Fogaca, M.V., Wu, M., Li, C., Li, X.-Y., Duman, R.S. and Picciotto, M.R. (2023) M1 acetylcholine receptors in somatostatin interneurons contribute to GABAergic and glutamatergic plasticity in the mPFC and antidepressant-like responses, Neuropsychopharmacology, 48(9):1277-1287. PMC10354201

Yousuf, H., Girardi, E.M., Crouse, R.B.  and Picciotto, M.R. (2023) Muscarinic antagonists impair multiple aspects of operant discrimination learning and performance, Neuroscience Letters, 794:137025, doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2022.137025. PMC9812939

Kim, K. and Picciotto, M.R. (2023) Nicotine addiction: more than just dopamine. Curr Op in Neurobiology, doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2023.102797 PMC10842238

Mineur, Y.S. and Picciotto, M.R. (2023) How can I measure brain acetylcholine level in vivo? advantages and caveats of commonly used approaches. JNeurochem, 167(1): 3-15. PMC10616967

Zakiniaeiz, Y., Peltier, M.R., Mineur, Y.S., Geuorguieva, R., Picciotto, M.R., Petrakis, I.L., Cosgrove, K.P. and McKee, S.A. (2023) Developing researchers with expertise in sex as a biological variable through SCORE career enhancement core center programs. J Womens Health, 32(8): 852-7. PMC10457604

Mineur, Y.S., Soares, A.R., Etherington, I.M., Abdulla, Z.I. and Picciotto, M.R. (2023) Pathophysiology of nAChRs: limbic circuits and related disorders. Pharmacological Research, 191:106745. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2023.106745 Open Access

Zhou, W.-L., Kim, K., Ali, F., Pittenger, S.T., Calarco, C.A., Mineur, Y.S., Ramakrishnan, C., Deisseroth, K., Kwan, A.C. and Picciotto, M.R. (2022) Activity of a direct VTA to ventral pallidum GABA pathway encodes unconditioned reward value and sustains motivation for reward, Science Advances, 8(42):eabm5217. PMC9581470

Mineur, Y.S., Mose, T.N., Maibom, K.L., Pittenger, S.T. Soares, A.R. and Picciotto, M.R. (2022) Acetylcholine signaling modulates activity of the GABAergic signaling network in the basolateral amygdala and behavior in stress-relevant paradigms, Molecular Psychiatry, 27(12):4918-27 PMC10718266

Mineur, Y.S., Mose, T.N., Vanopdenbosch, L., Etherington, I.M., Ogbejesi, C., Islam, A., Pineda, C.M., Crouse, R.B., Zhou, W.-L., Thompson, D.C., Bentham, M. and Picciotto, M.R. (2022) Hippocampal acetylcholine modulates stress-related behaviors independent of specific cholinergic inputs, Molecular Psychiatry, 27(3):1829-38. PMC9106825

Lee, B., Pothula, S., Wu, M., Kang, H., Girgenti, M.J., Picciotto, M.R., DiLeone, R.J., Taylor, J.R. and Duman R.S. (2022) Positive modulation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in mPFC reduces the spontaneous recovery of fear, Molecular Psychiatry, 27(5):2580-89. PMC9135632

Bagdas, D., Kebede, N., Zepei, A.M., Harris, L., Minanov, K., Picciotto, M.R. and Addy, N.A. (2022) Animal models to investigate the impact of flavors on nicotine addiction and dependence. Current Neuropharmacology, 20(11):2175-2201. PMC9886843

Mineur, Y.S. Garcia-Rivas, V., Thomas, M.A., Soares, A.R., McKee, S.A. and Picciotto, M.R. (2022) Sex differences in stress-induced alcohol intake: a review of preclinical studies focused on amygdala and inflammatory pathways. Psychopharmacology, 239(7):2041-61. PMC9704113