Publications

Full list of publications

Our lab has published >150 empirical papers, book chapters, commentaries and reviews. A complete list of publications can be found on Pubmed.

Additional information on citations of lab articles can be found on Google Scholar.

Spotlight on Recent Accomplishments

Dr. Hannah Burzynski was awarded a NRSA F32 fellowship from NIAAA in 2025 to support her postdoctoral training at Binghamton University. Although she ultimately declined the F32 to take a position as a Clinical Data Manager at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, we are proud that her F32 was selected for funding!

Dr. Paige Marsland was awarded the Enoch Gordis award for excellence in research at the annual Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) meeting in June 2024. The award recognized the outstanding presentation of her dissertation work and its impact on the alcohol field.

Dr. Andrew Vore was awarded a NRSA F31 fellowship from NIAAA to support his doctoral training (2019-2021). He was also awarded the Graduate Empowering and Accelerating Training (SUNY GREAT) award in March 2021, and the Graduate Student Excellence Award for Research from Binghamton University in March 2021.

Drs. Deak and Savage published a jointly edited Book Series entitled, "Late aging associated changes in alcohol sensitivity, neurobehavioral function, and neuroinflammation." The series was published in International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 148.

Dr. Anny Gano was awarded the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (ACER) Journal Award for an Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Investigator for a portion of her dissertation work (Gano et al., 2019) in June 2020.

Recent publications:

Trapp, S., Vore, A.S., Lutzke, A., Varlinskaya, E.I., & Deak, T. (2025). Adolescent intermittent ethanol exposure produces sex-specific development of functional tolerance to ethanol-induced motor impairment and hypothermia. Neuropharmacology, 280:110682. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110682. PMID: 40935125.

Lutzke, A., Velazquez, A.L., Trapp, S., Vore, A.S., Burzynski, H.E., Johnston, M.E. & Deak, T. (2025). Concurrent consumption of ethanol and corticosterone during adolescence alters neuroimmune sensitivity in Sprague Dawley rats, Addiction Neuroscience, 16:100218.

Gamble, M.E., Montero, M., Silberstein, D., Deak, T., Varlinskaya, E.I., Diaz, M.R. (2025). Prenatal methadone exposure produces functional and molecular alterations in the basolateral amygdala and decreased voluntary ethanol intake in female, but not male offspring. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 19:1570951. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1570951. PMID: 40302935

Marsland, P., Vore, A.S., Lutzke, A., Gano, A., Fischer, A., Trapp, S., Savage, L.M. & Deak, T. (2025). Sex-specific effects of chronic alcohol consumption across the lifespan in the transgenic Alzheimer’s Disease (TgF344-AD) rat model. Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 128:192-207. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2025.03.034. PMID: 40187669

Gano, A., Geraci, D., Varlinskaya, E.I. & Deak, T. (2025). Operant effort-based decision-making task reveals sex differences in motivational behavior but no long-term effects of adolescent intermittent ethanol in Sprague Dawley rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 250:173998. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2025.173998. PMID: 40107424.

Hennessy, M.B., Slomski, O., Spenny, J.B., Sharma, T.R., Schiml, P.A. & Deak, T. (2025). Early Attachment Disruption Increases Central Sensitivity of Depressive-Like Behavior to Stimulation by PGE-2. Developmental Psychobiology, 67(2):e70033. doi: 10.1002/dev.70033. PMID: 40059538

Diaz, M.R., Barney, T.M., Marsland, P. & Deak, T. (2025). Age- and cytokine-dependent modulation of GABAergic transmission within the basolateral amygdala of male Sprague Dawley rats. Neuropharmacology, 267:110304. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110304. PMID: 39827996

Children's books for outreach activities

We have developed a series of Children's books to teach kids about their developing brains:

The original book in the series, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, was published in 2010. This book was written for 4-8 year olds and has sold over 140,000 copies worldwide.

In 2013, we published a children's book entitled, The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain. The book is used for outreach activities targeting kids aged 8-12 years old to teach them about their brain, emphasizing changes they can expect during adolescence.

Following up on the original book, we published Good Night to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain in 2022, also targeting kids in the 4-8 year old range.

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