Dr. Ron See
Professor, Department of Neurosciences
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
Research Interests Dr. See’s research lab is centered around four current research projects. The first project involves neural substrates of addiction and relapse, using animal models of chronic psychostimulant and opiate self administration to study the role of specific brain nuclei and neurotransmitter systems in mediating drug-taking and drug-seeking behavior. The second project relates to translational research in addiction, with the ultimate goal of determining successful pharmacotherapies for the treatment of drug abuse and dependence. The next research topic is focused on determining sex differences and ovarian hormone regulation in a model of relapse to cocaine-seeking behavior produced by various stimuli. The final focus of Dr. See’s current research is directed toward understanding the mechanisms of short- and long-term antipsychotic drug action in the brain. Eduation | University of California, Berkeley, CA | B.A. | 1984 | Psychology | | University of California, Los Angeles, CA | M.A. | 1985 | Psychobiology | | University of California, Los Angeles, CA | Ph.D. | 1989 | Psychobiology |
Professional Experience | 1982-1983 | Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA | | 1983-1984 | Surgical Research Assistant, Letterman Army Institute of Research, San Francisco, CA | | 1984-1989 | Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | | 1989-1994 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA | | 1996-1997 | Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait | | 1994-1998 | Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA | | 1999-present | Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Neuroscience and Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC |
Recent Publications
Buffalari DM & See RE. Inactivation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in an animal model of relapse: Effects on conditioned cue-induced reinstatement and its enhancement by yohimbine. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 213(1):19-27, 2011. PMCID: PMC3132192 Feltenstein MW, Henderson AR & See RE. Enhancement of cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking in rats by yohimbine: Sex differences and the role of the estrous cycle. Psychopharmacology 216(1):53-62, 2011. Galuska CM, Banna KM, Willse LV, Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N & See RE. A comparison of economic demand and conditioned-cued reinstatement of methamphetamine-seeking or food-seeking in rats. Behavioural Pharmacology 22(4):312-323, 2011. PMCID: PMC3135689 Korte JE, Hiott FB, Brady KT, Malcolm RJ & See RE. Distinctive characteristics of methamphetamine users presenting at public clinics: Steep rise in South Carolina, United States, 2000-2005. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 115(1-2):9-15, 2011. PMCID: PMC3081922 Moussawi K, Zhou W, Shen H, Reichel CM, See RE, Carr DB & Kalivas PW. Reversing cocaine-induced synaptic potentiation provides enduring protection from relapse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA 108(1):385-390, 2011. PMCID: PMC3017187 Pacchioni AM, Gabriele A & See RE. Dorsal striatum mediation of cocaine-seeking after withdrawal from short or long daily access cocaine self-administration in rats. Behavioural Brain Research 218(2):296-300, 2011. PMCID: PMC3049308 Parsegian A, Glen WB, Jr., Lavin A & See RE. Methamphetamine self-administration produces attentional set-shifting deficits and alters prefrontal cortical neurophysiology in rats. Biological Psychiatry 69(3):253-259, 2011. PMCID: PMC3052930 Reichel CM, Moussawi K, Do PH, Kalivas PW & See RE. Chronic N-acetylcysteine during abstinence or extinction following cocaine self-administration produces enduring reductions in drug-seeking. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 337(2):487-493, 2011. PMCID: PMC3083102 Reichel CM, Schwendt M, McGinty JF, Olive MF & See RE. Loss of object recognition memory produced by extended access to methamphetamine self-administration is reversed by positive allosteric modulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5. Neuropsychopharmacology 36(4):782-792, 2011. PMCID: PMC3052905 Thomas SE, Randall PK, Brady KT, See RE & Drobes DJ. An acute psychosocial stressor does not potentiate alcohol cue reactivity in non-treatment-seeking alcoholics. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research 35(3):464-473, 2011. PMCID: PMC3117919 Waters RP & See RE. Chronic cocaine self-administration attenuates the anxiogenic-like and stress potentiating effects of the benzodiazepine inverse agonist, FG 7142. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 99(3):408-413, 2011. PMCID: PMC3129491 |
