Fosnocht, A.Q., Ellis, A.S., Lucerne, K.E., Olimpo, N.A. Briand, L.A. (2019). Adolescent social isolation increases vulnerability to cocaine. Behavioural Brain Research. PMID: 30296530

McGrath, A. G., Lenz, J.D., & Briand, L.A. (2018). PKMζ in the nucleus accumbens acts to dampen cocaine seeking. Neuropsychopharmacology. PMID: 30111812

Wickens, M.M., Bangasser, D.A., Briand, L.A. (2018). Sex differences in psychiatric disease: A focus on the glutamate system. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. PMID: 29922129

Ellis, A.S. Fosnocht, A.Q., Lucerne, K.E., Briand, L.A. (2017). Disrupting GluA2 phosphorylation potentiates stress responsivity. Behavioural Brain Research. PMID: 30296530

Wimmer, M.E., Briand, L.A., Fant, B., Guercio, L.A., Arreola, A.C., Schmidt, H.D., Sidoli, S., Han, Y., Garcia, B.A., Pierce, R.C. (2017). Paternal cocaine taking elicits epigenetic remodeling and memory deficits in male progeny. Molecular Psychiatry.  PMID: 28322277

Briand, L.A., Deutschmann, A.U., Ellis, A.S., Fosnocht, A.Q. (2016). Disrupting GluA2 phosphorylation potentiates reinstatement of cocaine seeking. Neuropharmacology 11: 231-241.  PMID: 27622930

Fosnocht, A.Q. and Briand, L.A., (2016). Substance use modulates stress reactivity: Behavioral and physiological outcomes. Physiology & Behavior, 166: 32-42.  PMID: 26907955

Briand, L.A., Hilario, M., Dow, H., Brodkin, E.S., Blendy, J.A. & Berton, O. (2015). Mouse model of OPRM1 (A118G) polymorphism increases sociability and dominance and confers resilience to social defeat. Journal of Neuroscience, 35: 3582-90.  PMID: 25716856

Briand, L.A., Lee, B.G., LeLay, J., Kaestner, K.H. & Blendy, J.A.  (2015). Serine 133 phosphorylation is not required for hippocampal CREB-mediated transcription and behavior. Learning & Memory, 22: 109-15.  PMID: 25593297

Ortinkski, P.I.,  Briand, L.A., Pierce, R.C., & Schmidt, H.D. (2015). Cocaine-seeking is associated with PKC-dependent reduction of excitatory signaling in accumbens shell D2 dopamine receptor-expressing neurons. Neuropharmacology 92: 80-9..  PMID: 25596492

Polter, A.M., Bishop, R.A., Briand, L.A., Graziane, N.M., Pierce, R.C., & Kauer, J.A. (in press). Post-stress block of kappa opioid receptors rescues LTPGABA and prevents reinstatement of cocaine seeking. Biological Psychiatry. 76:785-93.  PMID: 24957331

Briand, L.A., Kimmey, B., Ortinski, P.I., Huganir, R.L., & Pierce, R.C. (2014). Selective deletion of glutamate receptor interacting protein within the nucleus accumbens increases vulnerability to cocaine relapse. Neuropsychopharmacology 39: 759-69. PMID: 24126453

Gundersen, B.B., Briand, L.A., Onksen, J.L., LeLay, J., Kaestner, K.H., & Blendy, J.A. (2013). Increased hippocampal neurogenesis and accelerated response to antidepressants in mice with specific deletion of CREB in the hippocampus: Role of CREM tau. Journal of Neuroscience 33: 13673-85. PMID: 23966689

Briand, L.A. and Blendy, J.A. (2013). Not all stress is equal: The role of CREB in the ability of restraint stress to elicit reinstatement of cocaine-conditioned reward. Behavioural Brain Research. 246: 63-68. PMID: 23458740

Turner, J.R., Ecke, L.E., Briand, L.A., Haydon, P.G., Blendy, J.A. (2013). Cocaine-related behaviors in mice with deficient gliotransmission Psychopharmacology,226: 167-76. PMID: 23104263

Graziane, N.M., Polter, A.M., Briand, L.A., Pierce, R.C., Kauer, J.A. (2013). Kappa opioid receptors regulate stress-induced cocaine seeking and synaptic plasticity of VTA GABAergic synapses. Neuron. 77: 942-954. PMID: 23473323

Onksen, J.L., Briand, L.A., Galante, R.J., Pack, A.L., Blendy, J.A. (2012). Running-induced anxiety is dependent on increases in hippocampal neurogenesis. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 11: 529-38. PMID: 22471438

Briand, L.A., Lee, F.S., Blendy, J.A. and Pierce, R.C. (2012). Enhanced Extinction of Cocaine Seeking in Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Knock-in Mice. European Journal of Neuroscience, 35: 932-9. PMID: 22394056

Briand, L.A., Vassoler, F.M., Pierce, R.C., Valentino, R.J. and Blendy, J.A. (2010). Ventral tegmental afferents in stress-induced reinstatement: the role of cAMP response element-binding protein. Journal of Neuroscience, 30:16149-59. PMID: 21123561

Briand, L.A. and Blendy, J.A. (2009). Molecular and genetic substrates linking stress and addiction. Brain Research, 1314:219-34. PMID: 19900417

Kreibich, A.S., Briand, L., Cleck, J.N., Ecke, L., Rice, K.C. and Blendy, J.A. (2009). Stress-induced potentiation of cocaine reward: a role for CRF R1 and CREB. Neuropsychopharmacology, 34:2609-17. PMID: 19675537

Briand, L.A., Gross, J.P. and Robinson, T.E. (2008). Impaired object recognition following prolonged withdrawal from extended access cocaine self-administration. Neuroscience, 155: 1-6. PMID: 18590801

Briand, L.A., Flagel, S.B., Garcia-Fuster, M.J., Watson, S.J., Akil, H., Sarter, M., and Robinson, T.E. (2008). Persistent alterations in cognitive function and prefrontal dopamine D2 receptor expression following extended (but not limited) access to self-administered cocaine. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33: 2969-80. PMID: 18305460

Briand, L.A., Flagel, S.B., Seeman, P., and Robinson, T.E. (2008). Cocaine self-administration produces a persistent increase in dopamine D2(High) Receptors. European Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 18: 551-6. PMID: 18284941

Briand, L.A., Gritton, H., Howe, W.M., Young, D.A. and Sarter, M. (2007). Modulators in concert for cognition: modulator interactions in the prefrontal cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, 83: 69-91. PMID: 17681661

Briand, L.A., Robinson, T.E. and Maren, S. (2005). Enhancement of auditory fear conditioning after housing in a complex environment is attenuated by prior treatment with amphetamine. Learning & Memory, 12: 553-6. PMID: 16287722