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Sample Articles:

Modes of Acetylcholine Signaling in the Prefrontal Cortex: Implications for Cholinergic Dysfunction and Disorders. 

Fecik MJ*, Savage LM. (2023). In (Ed T. Heinbockel). Acetylcholine - Recent Advances and New Perspectives. IntechOpen, Rijeka, Croatia


Adult-born neurons maintain hippocampal cholinergic inputs and support working memory during aging. Dranovsky A, Kirshenbaum G, Chang CY*, Bompolaki M, Bradford V, Bell J, Kosmidis S, Shansky R, Orlandi J*, Savage LM, Leonardo E, Harris A. (2023). Molecular Psychiatry, doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-02167


Adolescent binge-type ethanol exposure in rats mirrors age-related cognitive decline by suppressing cholinergic tone and hippocampal neurogenesis

Reitz NL,* Nunes PT,* Savage LM. (2021). Front Behav Neurosci. 15:772857. PMCID: PMC8569390


Adolescent ethanol exposure alters cholinergic function and apical dendritic branching within the orbital frontal cortex. 

Kipp BT*, Nunes PT*, Galaj E*, Hitchcock B, Nasra T*, Poynor KR*, Heide SK*, Reitz NL*, Savage LM. (2021).  Neuroscience. 473:52-65. PMCI: PMC9168833 


Sex differences in cholinergic circuits and behavioral disruptions following chronic ethanol exposure with and without thiamine deficiency.  

Kipp BT*, Nunes PT*, Savage LM. (2021). Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 45:1013-1027. PMCID: PMC8131257.


The effect of chronic ethanol exposure and thiamine deficiency on myelin-related genes in the cortex and the cerebellum.

Chatterton BJ*, Nunes PT*, Savage LM. (2020). Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research,44:2481-2493. doi: 10.1111/acer.14484. PMCID: PMC7725981


Aging with alcohol-related brain damage: Critical brain circuits associated with cognitive dysfunction.

Nunes PT*, Kipp BT*, Reitz NL*, Savage LM.  

Int Rev Neurobiol. 2019;148:101-168. doi: 10.1016/bs.irn.2019.09.002. 


Midline thalamic damage associated with alcohol-use disorders: Disruption of distinct thalamocortical pathways and function.

Savage LM, Nunes PT*, Gursky ZH*, Milbocker KA*, Klintsova AY.

Neuropsychol Rev. 2020 Aug 12. doi: 10.1007/s11065-020-09450-8.


A Pivotal Role for Thiamine Deficiency in the Expression of Neuroinflammation Markers in Models of Alcohol-Related Brain Damage.

Nunes PT*, Vedder LC*, Deak T, Savage LM.

Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2019 Mar;43(3):425-438. doi: 10.1111/acer.13946


Nerve Growth Factor Is Responsible for Exercise-Induced Recovery of Septohippocampal Cholinergic Structure and Function.

Hall JM*, Gomez-Pinilla F, Savage LM.

Front Neurosci. 2018 Nov 1;12:773. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00773. eCollection 2018.


Adolescent binge ethanol exposure alters specific forebrain cholinergic cell populations and leads to selective functional deficits in the prefrontal cortex.

Fernandez GM*, Savage LM.

Neuroscience. 2017 Oct 11;361:129-143. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.08.013. 


*= trainee author