PREPRINTS:

Grella SL, Fortin AH, Bladon JH, Reynolds LF, Ruesch E, Gross A, Shpokayte M, Cincotta C, Zaki Y, & Ramirez S. (2021) Reactivating hippocampal-mediated memories to disrupt the reconsolidation of fear. Biorxiv

Shpokayte M, McKissick O, Yuan B, Rahsper B, Fernandez F, Reusch E, Grella SL, White J, Liu SX, & Ramirez S. (2021) Hippocampal cells multiplex positive and negative engrams. Biorxiv

Grella SL, Gomes SM, Lackie RE, Renda B, Marrone DF. (2021) Norepinephrine as a memory reset signal: Switching the system from retrieval to encoding during a spatial memory task can be both adaptive and maladaptive. Biorxiv

Cincotta C*, Murawski NJ*, Grella SL, McKissick O, Doucette E, Ramirez S. (2020) Chronic activation of fear engrams induces extinction-like behavior in ethanol-exposed mice. Biorxiv

Doucette E*, Merfeld E*, Leblanc H, Monasterio A, Cincotta C, Grella SL, Logan J, Ramirez S. (2020) Chronic optogenetic simulation of hippocampal engrams variably modulates social behaviors in mice.Biorxiv

Grella SL, Fortin AF, McKissick O, Leblanc H, Ramirez S (2019) Odor modulates the temporal dynamics of fear memory consolidation. Biorxiv

Zaki Y*, Mau W*, Cincotta C*, Hamidi A, Doucette E, Grella SL, Merfeld E, Murawski NJ, Shpokayte M, & Ramirez S (2019) Hippocampus and amygdala fear memory engrams re-emerge after contextual fear reinstatement. BioRrxiv

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PUBLICATIONS

2024

Grella SL*, Donaldson TN (2024) Contextual memory engrams, and the neuromodulatory influence of the locus coeruleus. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 17:1342622.

2022

Grella SL, Fortin AH, Ruesch E, Bladon JH, Reynolds LF, Gross A, Shpokayte M, Cincotta C, Zaki Y, & Ramirez S (2022) Reactivating hippocampal-mediated memories during reconsolidation to disrupt fear. Nature Communications 13:4733.

Shpokayte M, McKissick O, Guan X, Yuan B, Rahsper B, Fernandez F, Reusch E, Grella SL, Liu SX, White J, & Ramirez S (2022). Hippocampal cells segregate positive and negative engrams. Communications Biology 5:1009

Zaki Y*, Mau W*, Cincotta C*, Monasterio A, Odom E, Doucette E, Grella SL, Merfeld E, Shpokayte M, & Ramirez S. (2022) Hippocampus and amygdala fear memory engrams re-emerge after contextual fear reinstatement. Neuropsychopharmacology doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01407-0

2021

Grella SL, Gomes SM, Lackie RE, Renda B, Marrone DF (2021). Norepinephrine as a memory reset signal. Behavioural Pharmacology, 32: 531-548.

2020

Doucette E*, Merfeld E*, Leblanc H, Monasterio A, Cincotta C, Grella SL, Logan J, Ramirez S (2020) Social behavior in mice following chronic optogenetic simulation of hippocampal engrams. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 176: 107321

Cincotta C*, Murawski NJ*, Grella SL, McKissick O, Doucette E, Ramirez S. (2020) Chronic activation of fear engrams induces extinction-like behavior in ethanol-exposed mice. Hippocampus, 31: 3-10

Grella SL, Fortin AF, McKissick O, Leblanc H, Ramirez S (2020). Odor modulates the temporal dynamics of fear memory consolidation. Learning & Memory, 27: 150-163. Cover Article

2019

Chen B*, Murawski NJ*, Cincotta C, McKissick O, Hamidi A, Merfeld E, Doucette E, Grella SL, Shpokayte M, Zaki Y, Fortin AH, & Ramirez, S.(2019) Artificially enhancing and suppressing hippocampus-mediated memories. Current Biology, 29(10): 1-10.

Grella SL, Neil JM, Edison HT, Strong VD, Odintsova IV, Walling SG, Martin GM, Marrone DF, Harley CW (2019). Locus coeruleus phasic, but not tonic, activation initiates global remapping in a familiar environment. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(3): 445-455.

2017

Sherry DF, Grella SL, Guigueno MF, White DJ & Marrone DF. (2017) Are there place cells in the avian hippocampus? Brain, Beh & Evol, 90(1): 73-80. Article selected as Karger’s BBE Editor’s Choice

Maple AM, Lackie R, Elizalde S, Grella SL, Damphousse CC, Colin X, Gallitano AL, & Marrone DF. (2017) Attenuated late-phase Arc transcription in the dentate gyrus of mice lacking Egr3. Neural Plasticity, Vol 2017: 6063048.

2016

Grella SL, Guigueno MF, White DJ, Sherry DF, & Marrone DF. (2016) Context-dependent Egr1 expression in the avian hippocampus. (2016). Plos One, 11(10): e0164333.

2014

Grella SL, Funk D, Coen K, Li Z, & Lê AD (2014). A stress specific role for the kappa opioid system in the reinstatement of nicotine seeking in rats. Behav Brain Res, 265: 188-197.

2013

Zhou Y, Leri F, Grella SL, Aldrich JV, & Kreek MJ (2013). Involvement of dynorphin and kappa opioid receptor in yohimbine-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking in rats. Synapse, 67: 358-361.

2011

Grella SL, Levy A-M, Campbell A, Djazayeri S, Goddard B, Allen CA, & Leri F (2011). Oxycodone dose-dependently imparts conditioned reinforcing properties to discrete sensory stimuli in rats. Pharmacological Research, 64(4): 364-370.

2010

Grella SL, Kapur N, & Gerlai R (2010). A Y-maze choice task fails to detect alcohol avoidance or alcohol preference in zebrafish. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 23: 26-42.

2008

Afonso VM, Grella SL, Chatterjee D, & Fleming AS (2008). Previous maternal experience affects accumbal dopaminergic responses to pup stimuli. Brain Research, 1198: 115-123.

2007

Burton CL, Chatterjee D, Chatterjee-Chakraborty M, Lovic V, Grella SL, Steiner M, & Fleming AS (2007) Prenatal restraint stress and motherless rearing disrupts expression of plasticity markers and stress induced corticosterone release in adult female Sprague-Dawley rats. Brain Research, 1158: 28-38.