Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson, Ph.D.

  • 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
    1. Kristen E. Pleil
    2. Kathleen A. Grant
    3. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    4. Thomas L. Kash
  • Brain Functional Connectivity Mapping of Behavioral Flexibility in Rhesus Monkeys

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Kathleen A. Grant
    2. Natali Newman
    3. Colton Lynn
    4. Conor Davenport
    5. Steven Gonzales
    6. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    7. Christopher D. Kroenke
  • Characterization of DREADD receptor expression and function in rhesus macaques trained to discriminate ethanol

    Neuropsychopharmacology
    1. Daicia C. Allen
    2. Vanessa A. Jimenez
    3. Timothy L. Carlson
    4. Nicole A. Walter
    5. Kathleen A. Grant
    6. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
  • Impact of putamen inhibition by DREADDs on schedule-induced drinking in rhesus monkeys

    Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
    1. Kathleen A. Grant
    2. Natali N. Newman
    3. Steven W. Gonzales
    4. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
  • Neurobeachin, a promising target for use in the treatment of alcohol use disorder

    Addiction Biology
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Carlos F. Aylwin
    3. Timothy L. Carlson
    4. Matthew Ford
    5. Houda Mesnaoui
    6. Alejandro Lomniczi
    7. Betsy Ferguson
    8. Rita P. Cervera-Juanes
  • Synaptic effects of IL-1β and CRF in the central amygdala after protracted alcohol abstinence in male rhesus macaques

    Neuropsychopharmacology
    1. Reesha R. Patel
    2. Florence P. Varodayan
    3. Melissa A. Herman
    4. Vanessa Jimenez
    5. Rebecca Agnore
    6. Lina Gao
    7. Michal Bajo
    8. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    9. Nicole A. Walter
    10. Suzanne S. Fei
    11. Kathleen A. Grant
    12. Marisa Roberto
  • Effect of chronic ethanol consumption in rhesus macaques on the nucleus accumbens core transcriptome

    Addiction Biology
    1. Nicole Walter
    2. Rita Cervera-Juanes
    3. Christina Zheng
    4. Priscila Darakjian
    5. Denesa Lockwood
    6. Verginia Cuzon-Carlson
    7. Karina Ray
    8. Suzanne Fei
    9. Don Conrad
    10. Robert Searles
    11. Kathleen Grant
    12. Robert Hitzemann
  • Long-term alcohol consumption alters dorsal striatal dopamine release and regulation by D2 dopamine receptors in rhesus macaques

    Neuropsychopharmacology
    1. Armando G. Salinas
    2. Yolanda Mateo
    3. Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
    4. Gwen S. Stinnett
    5. Guoxiang Luo
    6. Audrey F. Seasholtz
    7. Kathleen A. Grant
    8. David M. Lovinger
  • Gestational alcohol exposure disrupts cognitive function and striatal circuits in adult offspring

    Nature communications
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Christina M. Gremel
    3. 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
    1. Xiaojie Wang
    2. Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
    3. Colin Studholme
    4. Natali Newman
    5. Matthew M. Ford
    6. Kathleen A. Grant
    7. 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
    1. Daicia C. Allen
    2. Timothy L. Carlson
    3. Yan Xiong
    4. Jian Jin
    5. Kathleen A. Grant
    6. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
  • Detecting Neurodevelopmental Effects of Early-Gestation Ethanol Exposure

    Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
    1. Vanessa A. Jimenez
    2. Xiaojie Wang
    3. Natali Newman
    4. Nicole A.R. Walter
    5. Steven Gonzales
    6. Jamie O. Lo
    7. Mathew M. Ford
    8. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    9. Kathleen A. Grant
    10. 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
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Matthew M. Ford
    3. Timothy L. Carlson
    4. Alejandro Lomniczi
    5. Kathleen A. Grant
    6. Betsy Ferguson
    7. Rita P. Cervera-Juanes
  • Synaptic adaptations in the central amygdala and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus associated with protracted ethanol abstinence in male rhesus monkeys

    Neuropsychopharmacology
    1. V. A. Jimenez
    2. M. A. Herman
    3. V. C. Cuzon Carlson
    4. N. A. Walter
    5. K. A. Grant
    6. M. Roberto
  • Synaptic adaptations to chronic ethanol intake in male rhesus monkey dorsal striatum depend on age of drinking onset

    Neuropharmacology
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Kathleen A. Grant
    3. David M. Lovinger
  • Folding, but not surface area expansion, is associated with cellular morphological maturation in the fetal cerebral cortex

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Xiaojie Wang
    2. Colin Studholme
    3. Peta L. Grigsby
    4. Antonio E. Frias
    5. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    6. Christopher D. Kroenke
  • Isoflurane Anesthesia Has Long-term Consequences on Motor and Behavioral Development in Infant Rhesus Macaques

    Anesthesiology
    1. Kristine Coleman
    2. Nicola D. Robertson
    3. Gregory A. Dissen
    4. Martha D. Neuringer
    5. L. Drew Martin
    6. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    7. Christopher Kroenke
    8. Damien Fair
    9. Ansgar M. Brambrink
  • Electrical coupling and synchronized subthreshold oscillations in the inferior olive of the Rhesus Macaque

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Josef Turecek
    2. Victor Z. Han
    3. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    4. Kathleen A. Grant
    5. John P. Welsh
  • Voluntary ethanol intake predicts κ-opioid receptor supersensitivity and regionally distinct dopaminergic adaptations in macaques

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Cody A. Siciliano
    2. Erin S. Calipari
    3. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    4. Christa M. Helms
    5. David M. Lovinger
    6. Kathleen A. Grant
    7. Sara R. Jones
  • Repeated Binge-like ethanol drinking alters ethanol drinking patterns and depresses striatal GABAergic transmission

    Neuropsychopharmacology
    1. Mark V. Wilcox
    2. Verginia C.Cuzon Carlson
    3. Nyssa Sherazee
    4. Gretchen M. Sprow
    5. Roland Bock
    6. Todd E. Thiele
    7. David M. Lovinger
    8. Veronica A. Alvarez
  • Nerve growth factor in the hippocamposeptal system

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Lan Guo
    2. Mason L. Yeh
    3. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    4. Erin M. Johnson-Venkatesh
    5. Hermes H. Yeh
  • GABAA receptor subunit profiles of tangentially migrating neurons derived from the medial ganglionic eminence

    Cerebral Cortex
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Hermes H. Yeh
  • Subsets of spiny striosomal striatal neurons revealed in the Gad1-GFP BAC transgenic mouse

    Basal Ganglia
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Brian N. Mathur
    3. Margaret I. Davis
    4. David M. Lovinger
  • Synaptic and morphological neuroadaptations in the putamen associated with long-term, relapsing alcohol drinking in primates

    Neuropsychopharmacology
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson
    2. Gail K. Seabold
    3. Christa M. Helms
    4. Natasha Garg
    5. Misa Odagiri
    6. Andrew R. Rau
    7. James Daunais
    8. Veronica A. Alvarez
    9. David M. Lovinger
    10. Kathleen A. Grant
  • Vibrodissociation of neurons from rodent brain slices to study synaptic transmission and image presynaptic terminals.

    Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
    1. Sang Beom Jun
    2. Verginia Cuzon Carlson
    3. Stephen Ikeda
    4. David Lovinger
  • Ethanol consumption during early pregnancy alters the disposition of tangentially migrating GABAergic interneurons in the fetal cortex

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Verginia C. Cuzon
    2. Pamela W.L. Yeh
    3. Yuchio Yanagawa
    4. Kunihiko Obata
    5. Hermes H. Yeh
  • Id2 is required for specification of dopaminergic neurons during adult olfactory neurogenesis

    Journal of Neuroscience
    1. Matthew C. Havrda
    2. Brent T. Harris
    3. Akio Mantani
    4. Nora M. Ward
    5. Brenton R. Paolella
    6. Verginia C. Cuzon
    7. Hermes H. Yeh
    8. Mark A. Israel