Mollie Bernstein, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
EnkephalinsManganeseHypothalamic Area, LateralMotor DisordersNuclear Localization SignalsAnalgesiaSeptum of BrainAnesthetics, InhalationNitrous OxideProtein PrecursorsArginineCation Transport ProteinsNucleus AccumbensDopaminergic NeuronsSeptal Nuclei

• A dorsal hippocampus-prodynorphinergic dorsolateral septum-to-lateral hypothalamus circuit mediates contextual gating of feeding.
  Neuron 2026 Goode TD, Bernstein MX, Totty MS, Alipio JB, Vicidomini C, Pathak D, Besnard A, Chizari D, Sachdev N, Kritzer MD, Chung A, Duan X, Macosko E, Hicks SC, Zweifel LS, Sahay A
• Neuron-specific modulation of SLC30A10 identifies dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurons as targets of manganese-induced motor disease.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2026 Grant SM, Melkote A, Bernstein MX, Jursa T, Taylor CA, Hutchens S, Shawlot W, Zweifel LS, Gonzales RA, Smith DR, Mukhopadhyay S
• Paradoxical increases in anterior cingulate cortex activity during nitrous oxide-induced analgesia reveal a signature of pain affect.
  Pain 2025 Weinrich JAP, Liu CD, Jewell ME, Andolina CR, Bernstein MX, Benitez J, Rodriguez-Rosado S, Braz JM, Maze M, Nemenov MI, Basbaum AI
• A neuropeptide-specific signaling pathway for state-dependent regulation of the mesolimbic dopamine system.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Bernstein MX, Koita O, Trzeciak M, Fan A, McAuley DT, Jin SW, Zweifel LS
• An arginine-rich nuclear localization signal (ArgiNLS) strategy for streamlined image segmentation of single cells.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2024 Szelenyi ER, Navarrete JS, Murry AD, Zhang Y, Girven KS, Kuo L, Cline MM, Bernstein MX, Burdyniuk M, Bowler B, Goodwin NL, Juarez B, Zweifel LS, Golden SA
• An arginine-rich nuclear localization signal (ArgiNLS) strategy for streamlined image segmentation of single-cells.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Szelenyi ER, Navarrete JS, Murry AD, Zhang Y, Girven KS, Kuo L, Cline MM, Bernstein MX, Burdyniuk M, Bowler B, Goodwin NL, Juarez B, Zweifel LS, Golden SA
• Paradoxical increases in anterior cingulate cortex activity during nitrous oxide-induced analgesia reveal a signature of pain affect.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Weinrich JA, Liu CD, Jewell ME, Andolina CR, Bernstein MX, Benitez J, Rodriguez-Rosado S, Braz JM, Maze M, Nemenov MI, Basbaum AI
• A Conditioned Place Preference for Heroin Is Signaled by Increased Dopamine and Direct Pathway Activity and Decreased Indirect Pathway Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2022 O'Neal TJ, Bernstein MX, MacDougall DJ, Ferguson SM