Research

Dr. Carr is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at the NYU School of Medicine. He is Director of the Postdoctoral Training Program in Research on Abused Drugs and a member of the Division of Molecular and Translational Neuroscience. In recent years, numerous M.A. Psychology students have completed thesis research projects in his laboratory.

Recent publications

Cabeza de Vaca, S., Krahne, L., Carr, KD. A progressive ratio schedule of self-stimulation testing reveals profound augmentation of d-amphetamine reward by food restriction but no effect of a "sensitizing" regimen of d-amphetamine, Psychopharmacology, 175: 106-113, 2004.

Haberny, S., Berman, Y., Meller, E., Carr, KD .Chronic food restriction increases D-1 dopamine receptor agonist-induced ERK1/2 MAP Kinase and CREB phosphorylation in caudate-putamen and nucleus accumbens, Neuroscience, 125: 289-298, 2004.

Hao, J., Cabeza de Vaca, S., Carr, K.D. Effects of chronic ICV leptin infusion on motor-activating effets of d-amphetamine in food-restricted and ad libitum fed rats, Physiology and Behavior, 83: 377-381, 2004.

Pan, Y., Berman, Y., Carr, K.D. Effects of the group I metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, DHPG, and injection stress on striatal cell signaling in food-restricted and ad libitum fed rats, BMC Neuroscience, 5(1):50, 2004.

Haberny S.L., Carr, K.D. Food restriction increases NMDA receptor-mediated CaMK II and NMDA receptor/ERK 1/2-mediated CREB phosphorylation in nucleus accumbens upon D-1 dopamine receptor stimulation in rats, Neuroscience, 132:1035-1043, 2005.

Cabeza de Vaca, S., Hao, J., Afroz, T., Krahne, L.L., Carr, K.D. Feeding, body weight and sensitivity to non-ingestive reward stimuli during and after 12-day continous central infusions of melanocortin receptor ligands, Peptides, 26:2314-2321, 2005.

Haberny S.L., Carr, K.D. Comparison of basal and D-1 dopamine receptor agonist-stimulated neuropeptide gene expression in caudate-putamen and nucleus accumbens of ad libitum fed and food-restricted rats, Molecular Brain Research, 141: 121-127, 2005.

Pan, Y., Siregar, E., Carr, KD. Striatal cell signaling in chronically food-restricted rats under basal conditions and in response to brief handling, Neuroscience Letters, 393: 243-248, 2006.

Hao J, Cabeza de Vaca S, Pan Y, Carr KD . Effects of central leptin infusion on the reward-potentiating effects of d-amphetamine, Brain Research, 1087:123-133, 2006.

Zhen, J, Reith MEA, Carr KD .Chronic food restriction and dopamine transporter function in rat striatum, Brain Research, 1082: 98-101, 2006.

Pan Y, Haberny LY, Berman Y, Meller, E., Carr KD .Synthesis, protein levels and phosphorylation state of tyrosine hydroxylase in mesoaccumbens and nigrostriatal dopamine pathways of chronically food-restricted rats. Brain Research, 1122:135-142, 2006.

Carr, KD , Food restriction: enhancing effects on drug reward and striatal cell signaling, Physiology and Behavior, Epub ahead of print, October 31 2006

Cabeza de Vaca S, Kannan P, Pan Y, Jiang N, Sun Y, Carr KD.The adenosine A2a receptor agonist, CGS-21680, blocks excessive rearing, acquisition of wheel running, and increases nucleus accumbens CREB phosphorylation in chronically food-restricted rats. Brain Research, 1142:100-109,2007.

Contact

Phone:: (212) 263-5749
E-mail:kc16@nyu.edu

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