2026:
The impact of seizures on REM sleep and the cholinergic pedunculopontine nucleus in a mouse model of Dravet Syndrome.
Krystal M. Santiago-Colon, Chandni Rana, Brandon Toth, Julia A. Kravchenko, Joseph Barden, Isabella VanHorn, Alexandra Jack, Alexander Hollier, Rida Qureshi, Hudson Harberland, Juan Disla, Nagham Eldroubi, Saif Siddiqui, Sophie Erb-Watson, Christian Burgess, Lori L. Isom, Joanna Mattis. bioRxiv.
Modulation of accumbens dopamine by MCH neurons during learning and consummatory behavior.
Liam Potter, Brandon Toth, Jayeeta Manna, Lorelei Baron, Hannah lyons, Jack Evans, Christian Burgess. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Cortically dependent motor training does not induce abnormal movements in DYT1-Knock in mice.
Alexander T. Hodge, Mohammed A. Rasheed, Tiffany Lin, Christian R. Burgess, Daniel K. Leventhal. Brain and Behavior.
2025:
Regulation of REM and NREM sleep by preoptic glutamatergic neurons.
Alejandra Mondino, Amir Jadidian, Brandon A Toth, Viviane S Hambrecht-Wiedbusch, Leonor Floran-Garduno, Duan Li, A Kane York, Pablo Torterolo, Dinesh Pal, Christian R Burgess, George A Mashour, Giancarlo Vanini. Sleep.
Lack of glutamate neurotransmission in melanin-concentrating hormone neurons alters mouse reproduction and metabolism in a sex-specific manner.
Bethany G. Beekly, Dania Zeidan, Wenicios F. Chaves, Jonah-Isabella Sta-Monica, Thomas Saunders, Cristina Saenz de Miera, Christian R. Burgess, Carol F. Elias. Biology of Sex Differences.
Context flexibly modulates cue representations in visual cortex.
Alexa D. Faulkner, Alvin S. Chiu, Armin Sarabi, Swathi Karthik, Yaoxin S. Li, Christian R. Burgess. Nature Communications.
Melanin concentrating hormone projections to the nucleus accumbens enhance the reward value of food consumption and do not induce feeding or REM sleep.
Katherine Furman, Lorelei Baron, Hannah Lyons, Timothy Cha, Jack Evans, Jayeeta Manna, Limei Zhu, Joanna Mattis, Christian Burgess. Journal of Neuroscience.
Phasic dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens influences REM sleep timing.
Brandon Toth, Christian Burgess. Journal of Neuroscience.
Devaluing memories of reward: a case for dopamine.
Benjamin R Fry, Nicolette Russell, Victoria Fex, Bing Mo, Nathan Pence, Joseph A Beatty, Fredric P Manfredsson, Brandon A Toth, Christian R Burgess, Samuel Gershman, Alexander W Johnson. Communications Biology.
2024:
Striatal dopamine contributions to skilled motor learning.
Chris Phillips, Alex Hodge, Courtney Myers, Daniel Leventhal, Christian Burgess. Journal of Neuroscience.
2023:
Inhibition of dopamine neurons prevents incentive value encoding of a reward cue: with revelations from deep phenotyping.
Amanda G Iglesias, Alvin S Chiu, Jason Wong, Paolo Campus, Fei Li, Zitong Liu, Jasmine K Bhatti, Shiv A Patel, Karl Deisseroth, Huda Akil, Christian R Burgess, Shelly B Flagel. Journal of Neuroscience.
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens promotes REM sleep and cataplexy.
Brandon Toth, Katie Chang, Sarah Fechtali, Christian Burgess. iScience.
Fast neurotransmitter identity of MCH neurons: Do contents depend on context?
Bethany Beekly, Alan Rupp, Christian Burgess, Carol F Elias. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology.
KNDy Innervation of MCH neurons modulates sleep in an estradiol-dependent manner.
Bethany Beekly, Katherine Furman, Christian Burgess, Carol Elias. Physiology.
2022:
Novel pharmacological treatments in sleep disorders.
Roberto De Luca, William D. Todd, Christian R. Burgess. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
The melanin-concentrating hormone system as a target for the treatment of sleep disorders.
Liam Potter and Christian Burgess. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Catching up on REMs.
Christian Burgess and Thomas Scammell. The New England Journal of Medicine.
Visual association cortex links cues with conjunctions of reward and locomotor contexts.
Kelly McGuire, Oren Amsalem, Arthur Sugden, Rohan Ramesh, Jesseba Fernando, Christian Burgess, and Mark Andermann. Current Biology.
Metabolic demands, sensory deficits: Tradeoffs in times of scarcity.
Alexa Faulkner and Christian Burgess. Neuron.
2020:
Cortical reactivations of recent sensory experiences predict bidirectional network changes during learning.
Arthur U. Sugden, Jeffrey D. Zaremba, Lauren A. Sugden, Kelly L. McGuire, Andrew Lutas, Rohan N. Ramesh, Osama Alturkistani, Kristian K. Lensjø, Christian R. Burgess, Mark L. Andermann. Nature Neuroscience.
2018:
Intermingled ensembles encode stimulus identity or predicted outcome in visual association cortex.
Rohan Ramesh, Christian Burgess, Arthur Sugden, Michael Gyetvan, and Mark Andermann. Neuron.
Gating of visual processing by homeostatic need.
Christian Burgess, Yoav Livneh, Rohan Ramesh, and Mark Andermann. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
2017:
Homeostatic circuits selectively gate food cue responses in insular cortex.
Yoav Livneh, Rohan Ramesh, Christian Burgess, Kirsten Levandowski, Joseph Madara, Henning Fenselau, Glenn Goldey, Nick Jikomes, Jon Resch, Veronica Diaz, Bradford Lowell, and Mark Andermann. Nature.
2016:
Dynamic GABAergic afferent modulation of AgRP neurons.
Alastair Garfield, Bhavik Shah, Christian Burgess*, Monica Li*, Chia Li, Jennifer Steger, Joseph Madara, John Campbell, Daniel Kroeger, Thomas Scammell, Bakhos Tannous, Martin Myers Jr, Mark Andermann, Michael Krashes and Bradford Lowell. Nature Neuroscience.
Hunger dependent enhancement of food cue responses in mouse postrhinal cortex and amygdala.
Christian Burgess*, Rohan Ramesh*, Arthur Sugden, Kirsten Levandowski, Margaret Minnig, Henning Fenselau, Bradford Lowell, and Mark Andermann. Neuron.
2015:
Arcuate hypothalamic AgRP and putative POMC neurons show opposite changes in spiking across multiple timescales.
Yael Mandelblat-Cerf*, Rohan Ramesh*, Christian Burgess*, Paola Patella, Zongfang Yang, Bradford Lowell, Mark Andermann. eLife.
