Psychology

NEUR 302/PSYC370 Neuroscience and Behavior
PSYC 320 Learning
PSYC 465 Drugs, Substance Use, and Addiction

* Indicates undergraduate author

Carlson, H.N., *Spera, A.G., Smith, M.A. (in review) Effects of xylazine on naloxone-precipitated fentanyl withdrawal in male and female rats. Drug and alcohol dependence, 264, 112450.

Smith, M. A., Armas, S. P., Camp, J. D., & Carlson, H. N. (2024). The positive reinforcing effects of cocaine and opposite-sex social contact: roles of biological sex and estrus. Psychopharmacology, 10.1007/s00213-024-06648-z. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-024-06648-z

Smith, M. A., Biancorosso, S. L., Camp, J. D., Hailu, S. H., *Johansen, A. N., *Morris, M. H., & Carlson, H. N. (2023). "Tranq-dope" overdose and mortality: lethality induced by fentanyl and xylazine. Frontiers in pharmacology, 14, 1280289. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2023.1280289

Carlson, H. N., & Weiner, J. L. (2023). The maladaptive alcohol self-administration task: An adapted novel model of alcohol seeking with negative consequences. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 119(3), 488–500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.834

Carlson, H. N., *Christensen, B. A., & Pratt, W. E. (2022). Stimulation of mu opioid, but not GABAergic, receptors of the lateral habenula alters free feeding in rats. Neuroscience letters, 771, 136417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136417

Carlson, H. N., & Weiner, J. L. (2021). The neural, behavioral, and epidemiological underpinnings of comorbid alcohol use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. International review of neurobiology, 157, 69–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irn.2020.09.006

Carlson, H. N., *Murphy, C., & Pratt, W. E. (2021). Shifting motivational states: The effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine and opioid receptor activation on a modified effort-based choice task. Behavioural brain research, 399, 112999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112999

2023 Sundberg Award, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

2023 Award for Outstanding Dissertation, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience 

Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awardee, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (F31 AA029292)

Graduate Research Fellowship (2017), Wake Forest University Center for Molecular Signaling

Phi Beta Kappa