Robert Featherstone, PhD

Assistant Professor of Research Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences

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Publications

  • The Use of Event-Related Potentials in the Study of Schizophrenia: An Overview. Adv Neurobiol. 2024; 40:285-319.. View in PubMed
  • The impact of integrating behavioral health services into pediatric subspecialty care: A systematic review. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2024 01; 78(1):8-16.. View in PubMed
  • The Power of Potentials. Am J Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 01; 180(7):470-472.. View in PubMed
  • Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IIα heterozygous knockout mice show electroencephalogram and behavioral changes characteristic of a subpopulation of schizophrenia and intellectual impairment. Neuroscience. 2022 09 01; 499:104-117.. View in PubMed
  • Early life social instability stress causes lasting cognitive decrement and elevated hippocampal stress-related gene expression. Exp Neurol. 2022 08; 354:114099.. View in PubMed
  • Frequency-specific medial septal nucleus deep brain stimulation improves spatial memory in MK-801-treated male rats. Neurobiol Dis. 2022 08; 170:105756.. View in PubMed
  • Src deficient mice demonstrate behavioral and electrophysiological alterations relevant to psychiatric and developmental disease. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2019 07 13; 93:84-92.. View in PubMed
  • High-beta/low-gamma frequency activity reflects top-down predictive coding during a spatial working memory test. Exp Brain Res. 2019 Jul; 237(7):1881-1888.. View in PubMed
  • Parvalbumin Cell Ablation of NMDA-R1 Leads to Altered Phase, But Not Amplitude, of Gamma-Band Cross-Frequency Coupling. Brain Connect. 2019 04; 9(3):263-272.. View in PubMed
  • Pyramidal cell-selective GluN1 knockout causes impairments in salience attribution and related EEG activity. Exp Brain Res. 2018 03; 236(3):837-846.. View in PubMed
  • Mismatch negativity in preclinical models of schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2018 01; 191:35-42.. View in PubMed
  • Amygdala activity associated with social choice in mice. Behav Brain Res. 2017 08 14; 332:84-89.. View in PubMed
  • GABA-B Agonist Baclofen Normalizes Auditory-Evoked Neural Oscillations and Behavioral Deficits in the Fmr1 Knockout Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome. eNeuro. 2017 Jan-Feb; 4(1).. View in PubMed
  • The mGluR2 positive allosteric modulator, SAR218645, improves memory and attention deficits in translational models of cognitive symptoms associated with schizophrenia. Sci Rep. 2016 10 13; 6:35320.. View in PubMed
  • Multiple Drug Treatments That Increase cAMP Signaling Restore Long-Term Memory and Aberrant Signaling in Fragile X Syndrome Models. Front Behav Neurosci. 2016; 10:136.. View in PubMed
  • Mouse Model of Chromosome 15q13.3 Microdeletion Syndrome Demonstrates Features Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Neurosci. 2015 Dec 09; 35(49):16282-94.. View in PubMed
  • Ceftriaxone reverses ketamine-induced lasting EEG and astrocyte alterations in juvenile mice. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Nov 01; 156:14-20.. View in PubMed
  • Delayed emergence of behavioral and electrophysiological effects following juvenile ketamine exposure in mice. Transl Psychiatry. 2015 Sep 15; 5:e635.. View in PubMed
  • Oxytocin reduces amygdala activity, increases social interactions, and reduces anxiety-like behavior irrespective of NMDAR antagonism. Behav Neurosci. 2015 Aug; 129(4):389-98.. View in PubMed
  • EEG biomarkers of target engagement, therapeutic effect, and disease process. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2015 May; 1344:12-26.. View in PubMed
  • Pyramidal cell selective ablation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 1 causes increase in cellular and network excitability. Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Mar 15; 77(6):556-68.. View in PubMed
  • The Role of Nicotine in Schizophrenia. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2015; 124:23-78.. View in PubMed
  • Mice with subtle reduction of NMDA NR1 receptor subunit expression have a selective decrease in mismatch negativity: Implications for schizophrenia prodromal population. Neurobiol Dis. 2015 Jan; 73:289-95.. View in PubMed
  • Parvalbumin cell ablation of NMDA-R1 causes increased resting network excitability with associated social and self-care deficits. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2014 Jun; 39(7):1603-13.. View in PubMed
  • Chronic exposure to a gambling-like schedule of reward predictive stimuli can promote sensitization to amphetamine in rats. Front Behav Neurosci. 2014; 8:36.. View in PubMed
  • Juvenile exposure to ketamine causes delayed emergence of EEG abnormalities during adulthood in mice. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2014 Jan 01; 134:123-127.. View in PubMed
  • Electroencephalographic and early communicative abnormalities in Brattleboro rats. Physiol Rep. 2013 Oct; 1(5):e00100.. View in PubMed
  • Electrophysiological and behavioral responses to ketamine in mice with reduced Akt1 expression. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2013 Jun; 227(4):639-49.. View in PubMed
  • Subchronic ketamine treatment leads to permanent changes in EEG, cognition and the astrocytic glutamate transporter EAAT2 in mice. Neurobiol Dis. 2012 Sep; 47(3):338-46.. View in PubMed
  • Nicotine normalizes event related potentials in COMT-Val-tg mice and increases gamma and theta spectral density. Behav Neurosci. 2012 Apr; 126(2):332-43.. View in PubMed
  • Nicotine receptor subtype-specific effects on auditory evoked oscillations and potentials. PLoS One. 2012; 7(7):e39775.. View in PubMed
  • AVE1625, a cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist, as a co-treatment with antipsychotics for schizophrenia: improvement in cognitive function and reduction of antipsychotic-side effects in rodents. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2011 May; 215(1):149-63.. View in PubMed
  • Gestational treatment with methylazoxymethanol (MAM) that disrupts hippocampal-dependent memory does not alter behavioural response to cocaine. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2009 Oct; 93(4):382-90.. View in PubMed
  • The amphetamine-induced sensitized state as a model of schizophrenia. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Nov 15; 31(8):1556-71.. View in PubMed
  • Lesions of the dorsolateral striatum impair the acquisition of a simplified stimulus-response dependent conditional discrimination task. Neuroscience. 2005; 136(2):387-95.. View in PubMed
  • Dorsal striatum and stimulus-response learning: lesions of the dorsolateral, but not dorsomedial, striatum impair acquisition of a stimulus-response-based instrumental discrimination task, while sparing conditioned place preference learning. Neuroscience. 2004; 124(1):23-31.. View in PubMed