Joshua A. Burk

All Publications

· Burk JA, Mair RG (1998) Thalamic amnesia reconsidered:Excitotoxic lesions of the intralaminar nuclei, but not the mediodorsal nucleus disrupt place DMTS performance in the rat (Rattus norvegicus).Behavioral Neuroscience, 112, 54-67.

· Zhang Y, Burk JA, Glode BM, Mair RG (1998) The effects of thalamic and olfactory cortical lesions on continuous olfactory DNMTS and olfactory discrimination in the rat (Rattus norvegicus).Behavioral Neuroscience, 112, 39- 53.

· Mair RG, Burk JA, Porter MC (1998) In the rat (Rattus norvegicus) lesions of frontal cortex, hippocampus, and the intralaminar thalamic nuclei have distinct effects on remembering.Behavioral Neuroscience, 112, 772-792.

· Burk JA, Mair RG (1999) Delayed matching-to-sample trained with retractable levers is impaired by lesions of the intralaminar or ventromedial but not the laterodorsal thalamic nuclei. Psychobiology, 27, 351-363.

· Mair RG, Burk JA, Porter MC, Ley JE (1999) Thalamic amnesia and the hippocampus: Unresolved questions and an alternative candidate. Behavioral Brain Sciences, 22, 458-459.

· Burk JA, Glode BM, Drugan RC, Mair RG (1999) Effects of chlordiazepoxide and FG 7142 on a rat model of diencephalic amnesia as measured by delayed-matching-to-sample performance. Psychopharmacology, 142, 413-420.

· Porter MC, Burk JA, Mair RG (2000) Distinctive effects of hippocampal and cortical lesions on delayed non-match-to-position: A comparison of tasks trained with retractable and in automated radial arm mazes. Behavioural Brain Research, 109, 69-81.

· Burk JA, Mair RG (2001) Effects of dorsal and ventral striatal lesions on delayed matching trained with retractable levers. Behavioural Brain Research, 122, 67- 78.

· Burk JA, Mair RG (2001) Effects of intralaminar thalamic lesions on sensory attention and motor intention in the rat: a comparison with lesions involving frontal cortex and hippocampus. Behavioural Brain Research, 123, 49-63.

· Burk JA, Sarter M (2001) Dissociation between the attentional functions mediated via basal forebrain cholinergic and GABAergic neurons. Neuroscience, 105, 899-909.

· Burk JA, Herzog CD, Porter MC, Sarter M (2002) Interactions between aging and cortical cholinergic deafferentation on attention.Neurobiology of Aging, 23, 467-477.

· Nelson CL, Burk JA, Sarter M, Bruno JP (2002) Effects of acute and repeated ketamine on prefrontal acetylcholine release and sustained attention performance in rats. Psychopharmacology, 161, 168-179.

· Mair RG, Koch JK, Newman JB, Howard J, Burk JA (2002) A double dissociation in striatum between performance of a stimulus-response habit and a delayed conditional discrimination task. The Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 6756-6765.

· Arnold HM, Burk JA, Sarter M, Bruno JP (2002) Differential cortical acetylcholine release in rats performing a sustained attention task versus behavioral control tasks that do not explicitly tax attention. Neuroscience, 114, 451-460.

· Mair RG, Burk JA, Porter MC (2003) Impairment of radial maze delayed nonmatching after lesions of anterior thalamus and parahippocampal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, 596-605.

· Kondrad RL, Burk JA (2004) Transient disruption of attentional performance following escalating amphetamine administration in rats. Psychopharmacology, 175, 436-442.

· Burk JA (2004) Introduction of a retention interval in a sustained attention task in rats: effects of presenting a visual distracter and increasing the inter-trial interval. Behavioural Processes, 67, 521-531.

· Yttri EA, Burk JA, Hunt PS (2004) Intermittent ethanol exposure in adolescent rats: dose-dependent impairment in trace conditioning. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 28, 1433-1436.

· Echevarria DJ, Brewer A, Burk JA, Brown SN, Manuzon H, Robinson JK (2005) Construct validity of an operant signal detection task for rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 157, 283-290.

· Woolfrey KM, Musisca NJ, Hunt PS, Burk JA (2005) Early postnatal ethanol administration does not affect prepulse inhibition. Physiology & Behavior, 84, 747-752.

· Newman LA, Burk JA (2005) Effects of excitotoxic thalamic intralaminar nuclei lesions on attention and working memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 162, 264-271.

· Woolfrey KM, Hunt PS, Burk JA (2005) Postnatal ethanol exposure disrupts signal detection in adult rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 27, 815-823.

· Johnson RT, Burk JA (2006) Effects of gonadectomy and androgen supplementation on attention in male rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 85, 219-227.

· McQuail JA, Burk JA (2006) Evaluation of muscarinic and nicotinic receptor antagonists on attention and working memory. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 85, 796-803.

· Johnson RT, Burk JA, Kirkpatrick LA (2007) Dominance and prestige as differential predictors of aggression and testosterone levels in men. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 345-351.

· Howe WM, Burk JA (2007) Dizocilpine-induced accuracy deficits in a visual signal detection task are not present following D-cycloserine administration. European Journal of Pharmacology, 577, 87-90.

· Burk JA (2008) Neuroscience. Encyclopedia for Educational Psychology (ed. Salkind NJ). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, 724-729.

· Burk JA, Lowder MW, Altemose KE (2008) Attentional demands for demonstrating deficits following intrabasalis infusions of 192 IgG-saporin. Behavioural Brain Research, 195, 231-238.

· Boschen KE, Fadel JR, Burk JA (2009) Systemic and intrabasalis administration of the orexin-1 receptor antagonist, SB-334867, disrupts attentional performance in rats. Psychopharmacology, 206, 205-213.

· Fadel J, Burk JA (2010) Orexin/hypocretin modulation of the basal forebrain cholinergic system: role in attention. Brain Research, 1314, 112-123. (Special issue on “Neuropeptides in Stress and Addiction”)

· Burk JA, Robinson AM (2010) Muscarinic M1 receptors, protein kinase C and attention: targets for treating Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Handbook of Drug Targeting and Monitoring (eds. Andreev B, Egorov V). Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, pp. 113-129.

· Spaeth AM, Barnet RC, Hunt PS, Burk JA (2010) Adolescent nicotine exposure disrupts context conditioning in adulthood in rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 96, 501-506.

· Robinson AM, Mangini DF, Burk JA (in press) Task demands dissociate the effects of muscarinic M1 receptor blockade and PKC inhibition on attentional performance in rats. Journal of Psychopharmacology.