Dennis Burke, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• PhD Neuroscience Brown-NIH Graduate Partnership Program 2022
• BS Neuroscience Duke University 2012

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
Spatial LearningReceptors, NicotinicExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsReceptors, Dopamine D1Neural InhibitionDopamineReceptors, SerotoninNucleus AccumbensFunctional LateralityNerve NetReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateCorpus StriatumGABAergic NeuronsDizocilpine MaleateNicotinic Antagonists

• An open-source behavior controller for associative learning and memory (B-CALM).
  Behavior research methods 2023 Zhou M, Wu B, Jeong H, Burke DA, Namboodiri VMK
• Few-shot learning: temporal scaling in behavioral and dopaminergic learning.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Burke DA, Jeong H, Wu B, Lee SA, Floeder JR, Namboodiri VMK
• Mesolimbic dopamine release conveys causal associations.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022 Jeong H, Taylor A, Floeder JR, Lohmann M, Mihalas S, Wu B, Zhou M, Burke DA, Namboodiri VMK
• Serotonin receptors contribute to dopamine depression of lateral inhibition in the nucleus accumbens.
  Cell reports 2022 Burke DA, Alvarez VA
• Striatal Local Circuitry: A New Framework for Lateral Inhibition.
  Neuron 2017 Burke DA, Rotstein HG, Alvarez VA

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• Cognitive and Behavioral Impairments Evoked by Low-Level Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Components: Comparison with Nicotine Alone.
  Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 2016 Hall BJ, Cauley M, Burke DA, Kiany A, Slotkin TA, Levin ED
• Role of nicotinic receptors in the lateral habenula in the attenuation of amphetamine-induced prepulse inhibition deficits of the acoustic startle response in rats.
  Psychopharmacology 2015 Larrauri JA, Burke DA, Hall BJ, Levin ED
• Effects of tobacco smoke constituents, anabasine and anatabine, on memory and attention in female rats.
  Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 2014 Levin ED, Hao I, Burke DA, Cauley M, Hall BJ, Rezvani AH
• Decreasing nicotinic receptor activity and the spatial learning impairment caused by the NMDA glutamate antagonist dizocilpine in rats.
  European journal of pharmacology 2014 Burke DA, Heshmati P, Kholdebarin E, Levin ED