Cassandra Avila
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Avila C, Sarter M
Elife
. 2025 Feb;
13.
PMID: 39968969
Turning on cue or stopping at a red light requires attending to such cues to select action sequences, or suppress action, in accordance with learned cue-associated action rules. Cortico-striatal projections...
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Avila C, Sarter M
bioRxiv
. 2024 Apr;
PMID: 38559086
Significance Statement: Adaptive behavior involves the selection of behaviorally significant cues and the capacity of selected cues to control behavioral action. Neuronal projections from cortex to striatum are essential for...
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Kucinski A, Avila C, Sarter M
eNeuro
. 2023 Jan;
9(6).
PMID: 36635246
Sign tracking versus goal tracking in rats indicate vulnerability and resistance, respectively, to Pavlovian cue-evoked addictive drug taking and relapse. Here, we tested hypotheses predicting that the opponent cognitive-behavioral styles...
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Donovan E, Avila C, Klausner S, Parikh V, Fenollar-Ferrer C, Blakely R, et al.
J Neurosci
. 2022 Mar;
42(16):3426-3444.
PMID: 35232764
Transport of choline via the neuronal high-affinity choline transporter (CHT; ) is essential for cholinergic terminals to synthesize and release acetylcholine (ACh). In humans, we previously demonstrated an association between...
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Sarter M, Avila C, Kucinski A, Donovan E
Mov Disord
. 2021 Feb;
36(3):535-546.
PMID: 33615556
Background: In movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD), cholinergic signaling is disrupted by the loss of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons, as well as aberrant activity in striatal cholinergic interneurons...
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Avila C, Kucinski A, Sarter M
J Neurosci
. 2020 Jun;
40(31):6049-6067.
PMID: 32554512
Older persons and, more severely, persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibit gait dysfunction, postural instability and a propensity for falls. These dopamine (DA) replacement-resistant symptoms are associated with losses of...