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Michael Michaelides

Researcher at National Institute on Drug Abuse

Publications -  88
Citations -  3742

Michael Michaelides is an academic researcher from National Institute on Drug Abuse. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 65 publications receiving 2777 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Michaelides include Brookhaven National Laboratory & Stony Brook University.

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Chemogenetics revealed: DREADD occupancy and activation via converted clozapine.

TL;DR: Radioligand receptor occupancy measurements and in vivo positron emission tomography are used to show that DREADDs expressed in the brain are not activated by the designer compound CNO (clozapine N-oxide), instead, they areactivated by the CNO metabolite clozapines, a drug with multiple endogenous targets.
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The Neuroscience of Drug Reward and Addiction.

TL;DR: Treatment interventions intended to reverse neuroadaptations that result in an impaired prefrontal top-down self-regulation that favors compulsive drug-taking against the backdrop of negative emotionality and an enhanced interoceptive awareness of "drug hunger" show promise as therapeutic approaches for addiction.
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Parental THC exposure leads to compulsive heroin-seeking and altered striatal synaptic plasticity in the subsequent generation.

TL;DR: Adolescent exposure to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive component of cannabis, results in behavioral and neurobiological abnormalities in the subsequent generation of rats as a consequence of parental germline exposure to the drug.
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Food restriction markedly increases dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) in a rat model of obesity as assessed with in‐vivo μPET imaging ([11C] raclopride) and in‐vitro ([3H] spiperone) autoradiography

TL;DR: The ARG finding of an attenuation of the age‐related loss of D2R binding corroborates previous studies of the salutary effects of food restriction in the aging process and suggests that the differences in dopamine activity and D1R levels between Ob and Le Zucker rats are modulated by access to food.