Britt Lab

Britt Lab

Publications

Articles, reviews and preprints from the Britt Lab at McGill, since 2014. Lab members are highlighted.

2026

  • Rapid dynamics of dorsal raphe serotonin neurons regulate the strength of visual attention Lehnert J, Cha K, Forestell J, Yang K, Ma X, Shariff S, Britt JP, Khadra A, Cook EP, Krishnaswamy A DOIPubMedOpen access Nature Communications 17(1):3464

2024

  • Palatability attributed to alcohol and alcohol-paired flavors Valyear MD, Eustachon NM, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access Physiology & Behavior 277:114500

2023

  • A disengaging property of dopamine signalingPreprint Valyear MD, Eustachon NM, Morris MM, Alymova I, Tremblay BN, Mitrikeski NM, Britt JP DOIOpen access bioRxiv
  • Methyl-CpG binding domain 2 (Mbd2) is an epigenetic regulator of autism-risk genes and cognition Lax E, Do Carmo S, Enuka Y, Sapozhnikov DM, Welikovitch LA, Mahmood N, Rabbani SA, Wang L, Britt JP, Hancock WW, Yarden Y, Szyf M DOIPubMedOpen access Translational Psychiatry 13(1):259
  • A new circuit underlying the renewal of appetitive Pavlovian responses: Commentary on Brown and Chaudhri (2022)Commentary Valyear MD, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access European Journal of Neuroscience 57(5):780-783

2022

  • All-optical approaches to studying psychiatric diseaseReview Lafferty CK, Christinck TD, Britt JP DOIPubMed Methods 203:46-55

2021

  • Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) promotes social behavior through mTORC1 in the excitatory neurotransmission De Gregorio D, Popic J, Enns JP, Inserra A, Skalecka A, Markopoulos A, Posa L, Lopez-Canul M, He Q, Lafferty CK, Britt JP, Comai S, Aguilar-Valles A, Sonenberg N, Gobbi G DOIPubMedOpen access Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118(5):e2020705118

2020

  • Hippocampal Input to the Nucleus Accumbens Shell Enhances Food Palatability Yang AK, Mendoza JA, Lafferty CK, Lacroix F, Britt JP DOIPubMed Biological Psychiatry 87(7):597-608
  • Cannabis Exposure Enhances Subcortical Control of Nucleus Accumbens ActivityCommentary Lafferty CK, Britt JP DOIPubMed Biological Psychiatry 87(7):592-594
  • Off-Target Influences of Arch-Mediated Axon Terminal Inhibition on Network Activity and Behavior Lafferty CK, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access Frontiers in Neural Circuits 14:10
  • Nucleus Accumbens Cell Type- and Input-Specific Suppression of Unproductive Reward Seeking Lafferty CK, Yang AK, Mendoza JA, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access Cell Reports 30(11):3729-3742.e3

2019

  • Cue-evoked dopamine neuron activity helps maintain but does not encode expected value Mendoza JA, Lafferty CK, Yang AK, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access Cell Reports 29(6):1429-1437.e3

2018

  • Coordinated Reductions in Excitatory Input to the Nucleus Accumbens Underlie Food Consumption Reed SJ, Lafferty CK, Mendoza JA, Yang AK, Davidson TJ, Grosenick L, Deisseroth K, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access Neuron 99(6):1260-1273.e4

2014

  • Optogenetics in preclinical neuroscience and psychiatry research: recent insights and potential applicationsReview McDevitt RA, Reed SJ, Britt JP DOIPubMedOpen access Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 10:1369-1379