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Zike ID, Chohan MO, Kopelman JM, Krasnow E, Flicker D, Nautiyal KM, Bubser M, Kellendonk C, Jones CK, Stanwood GD, Tanaka KF, Moore H, *Ahmari SE, *Veenstra-VanderWeele J. OCD candidate gene SLC1A1/EAAT3 impacts basal ganglia-mediated activity and stereotypic behavior. (2017) PNAS. 114: 5719-5724. PMID: 28507136.
Manning EE, Dombrovski AY, Torregrossa MM, and Ahmari SE*. Impaired instrumental reversal learning is associated with increased mPFC activity in Sapap3-KO mouse model of compulsive behavior”. (2018) Neuropsychopharmacology. 44: 1494-1504. PMID: 3058785129.
Piantadosi SC, Chamberlain B, Glausier JR, Lewis DA, and Ahmari SE*. Decreases in excitatory synaptic gene expression in orbitofrontal cortex and striatum of subjects with obsessive compulsive disorder. (2019) Molecular Psychiatry. epub ahead of print. PMID: 31168067