Assistant Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program, School of Medicine
Neuroscience Graduate Program, School of Medicine
Education and training
Degrees
Ph.D., 2008, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Fellowship
Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award Fellow, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Memberships and associations:
Society of Neuroscience
Research Society on Alcoholism
Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism Stress Consortium
Areas of interest
Developmental Neuroscience
Addiction
Publications
Publications
Chronic alcohol consumption alters sex-dependent BNST neuron function in rhesus macaques
Neurobiology of Stress
Kristen E.Pleil
Kathleen A.Grant
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Thomas L.Kash
Brain Functional Connectivity Mapping of Behavioral Flexibility in Rhesus Monkeys
Journal of Neuroscience
Kathleen A.Grant
NataliNewman
ColtonLynn
ConorDavenport
StevenGonzales
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Christopher D.Kroenke
Characterization of DREADD receptor expression and function in rhesus macaques trained to discriminate ethanol
Neuropsychopharmacology
Daicia C.Allen
Vanessa A.Jimenez
Timothy L.Carlson
Nicole A.Walter
Kathleen A.Grant
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Impact of putamen inhibition by DREADDs on schedule-induced drinking in rhesus monkeys
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Kathleen A.Grant
Natali N.Newman
Steven W.Gonzales
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Neurobeachin, a promising target for use in the treatment of alcohol use disorder
Addiction Biology
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Carlos F.Aylwin
Timothy L.Carlson
MatthewFord
HoudaMesnaoui
AlejandroLomniczi
BetsyFerguson
Rita P.Cervera-Juanes
Synaptic effects of IL-1β and CRF in the central amygdala after protracted alcohol abstinence in male rhesus macaques
Neuropsychopharmacology
Reesha R.Patel
Florence P.Varodayan
Melissa A.Herman
VanessaJimenez
RebeccaAgnore
LinaGao
MichalBajo
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Nicole A.Walter
Suzanne S.Fei
Kathleen A.Grant
MarisaRoberto
Effect of chronic ethanol consumption in rhesus macaques on the nucleus accumbens core transcriptome
Addiction Biology
NicoleWalter
RitaCervera-Juanes
ChristinaZheng
PriscilaDarakjian
DenesaLockwood
VerginiaCuzon-Carlson
KarinaRay
SuzanneFei
DonConrad
RobertSearles
KathleenGrant
RobertHitzemann
Long-term alcohol consumption alters dorsal striatal dopamine release and regulation by D2 dopamine receptors in rhesus macaques
Neuropsychopharmacology
Armando G.Salinas
YolandaMateo
Verginia C.CuzonCarlson
Gwen S.Stinnett
GuoxiangLuo
Audrey F.Seasholtz
Kathleen A.Grant
David M.Lovinger
Gestational alcohol exposure disrupts cognitive function and striatal circuits in adult offspring
Nature communications
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Christina M.Gremel
David M.Lovinger
In utero MRI identifies consequences of early-gestation alcohol drinking on fetal brain development in rhesus macaques
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
XiaojieWang
Verginia C.CuzonCarlson
ColinStudholme
NataliNewman
Matthew M.Ford
Kathleen A.Grant
Christopher D.Kroenke
A comparative study of the pharmacokinetics of clozapine N-oxide and clozapine N-oxide hydrochloride salt in rhesus macaques
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Daicia C.Allen
Timothy L.Carlson
YanXiong
JianJin
Kathleen A.Grant
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Detecting Neurodevelopmental Effects of Early-Gestation Ethanol Exposure
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Vanessa A.Jimenez
XiaojieWang
NataliNewman
Nicole A.R.Walter
StevenGonzales
Jamie O.Lo
Mathew M.Ford
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Kathleen A.Grant
Christopher D.Kroenke
Modulation of Gpr39, a G-protein coupled receptor associated with alcohol use in non-human primates, curbs ethanol intake in mice
Neuropsychopharmacology
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Matthew M.Ford
Timothy L.Carlson
AlejandroLomniczi
Kathleen A.Grant
BetsyFerguson
Rita P.Cervera-Juanes
Synaptic adaptations in the central amygdala and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus associated with protracted ethanol abstinence in male rhesus monkeys
Neuropsychopharmacology
V. A.Jimenez
M. A.Herman
V. C.Cuzon Carlson
N. A.Walter
K. A.Grant
M.Roberto
Synaptic adaptations to chronic ethanol intake in male rhesus monkey dorsal striatum depend on age of drinking onset
Neuropharmacology
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Kathleen A.Grant
David M.Lovinger
Folding, but not surface area expansion, is associated with cellular morphological maturation in the fetal cerebral cortex
Journal of Neuroscience
XiaojieWang
ColinStudholme
Peta L.Grigsby
Antonio E.Frias
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Christopher D.Kroenke
Isoflurane Anesthesia Has Long-term Consequences on Motor and Behavioral Development in Infant Rhesus Macaques
Anesthesiology
KristineColeman
Nicola D.Robertson
Gregory A.Dissen
Martha D.Neuringer
L. DrewMartin
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
ChristopherKroenke
DamienFair
Ansgar M.Brambrink
Electrical coupling and synchronized subthreshold oscillations in the inferior olive of the Rhesus Macaque
Journal of Neuroscience
JosefTurecek
Victor Z.Han
Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
Kathleen A.Grant
John P.Welsh
Voluntary ethanol intake predicts κ-opioid receptor supersensitivity and regionally distinct dopaminergic adaptations in macaques