Howard C. Becker

Also affiliated with Charleston School of Law, Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center

NeuroscienceMedicine

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 20 papers. Top paper: “Alcohol Dependence Modifies Brain Networks Activated During Withdrawal and Reaccess: A c-Fos–Based Analysis in Mice”.

Alcohol Dependence Modifies Brain Networks Activated During Withdrawal and Reaccess: A c-Fos–Based Analysis in Mice

Biological Psychiatry(2023)10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.01.018

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0.631DataRank · unranked

66 citations

Cesar A.O. Coelho, Harold L. Haun, Carol A. Gianessi, Marcelo F. Lopez, Shannon D’Ambrosio +6 more

Role of oxytocin and vasopressin in alcohol use disorder

International review of neurobiology(2024)10.1016/bs.irn.2024.08.006

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0.330DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Marcelo F. Jiménez, Howard C. Becker, Sutton M Scarboro

Brain pathways to recovery from alcohol dependence

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/25bn-9325

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Dieter J. Meyerhoff, Antonio Noronha, Edith V. Sullivan, George Fein, Adolf Pfefferbaum +17 more

Bioinformatics identification and pharmacological validation of Kcnn3/KCa2 channels as a mediator of negative affective behaviors and excessive alcohol drinking in mice

Translational Psychiatry(2020)10.1038/s41398-020-01099-4

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13 citations

Jennifer A. Rinker, Marcelo F. Lopez, Megan K. Mulligan, Robert W. Williams, Howard C. Becker +2 more

Kappa opioid receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis regulate binge-like alcohol consumption in male and female mice

Neuropharmacology(2020)10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.107984

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34 citations

William C. Griffin, Marcelo F. Lopez, Howard C. Becker, Harold L. Haun

The FDA-approved drug apremilast suppresses alcohol intake: clinical and pre-clinical validation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.05.13.444033

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5 citations

Regina A. Mangieri, Amanda J. Roberts, Marcelo J Lopez, Alexander Tran, Evan J. Firsick +19 more

Oxytocin Reduces Sensitized Stress–Induced Alcohol Relapse in a Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder Comorbidity

Biological Psychiatry(2022)10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.12.003

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22 citations

Marcelo F. Lopez, Courtney King, William C. Griffin, Howard C. Becker

TLR3 activation with poly I:C exacerbates escalated alcohol consumption in dependent male C57BL/6J mice

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse(2022)10.1080/00952990.2022.2092492

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13 citations

Christina L. Lebonville, Howard C. Becker, Anny Gano

Alcohol dependence modifies brain networks activated during abstinence and reaccess: a c-fos-based analysis in mice

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.26.505400

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4 citations

Cesar A.O. Coelho, Harold L. Haun, Carol A. Gianessi, Marcelo F. Lopez, Shannon D’Ambrosio +6 more

Preclinical and clinical evidence for suppression of alcohol intake by apremilast

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2023)10.1172/jci159103

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64 citations

Regina A. Mangieri, Amanda J. Roberts, Marcelo F. Lopez, Evan J. Firsick, Kayla G. Townsley +18 more

Agmatine reduces alcohol drinking and produces antinociceptive effects in rodent models of alcohol use disorder

Alcohol(2023)10.1016/j.alcohol.2023.01.003

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14 citations

Erin C. Davis, Jessica A. Cucinello‐Ragland, S. Regunathan, Scott Edwards, Howard C. Becker +1 more

Transcriptome changes in the nucleus of the solitary tract induced by repeated stress, alcohol dependence, or stress-induced drinking in dependent mice

Neuropharmacology(2023)10.1016/j.neuropharm.2023.109768

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6 citations

Gayatri R. Tiwari, Olga Ponomareva, R. Adron Harris, Marcelo F. Lopez, Howard C. Becker +2 more

Alcohol drinking is associated with greater calcium activity in mouse central amygdala dynorphin-expressing neurons

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.02.18.580880

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1 citations

Jennifer A. Rinker, Krysten O’Hara, Christopher S. McMahan, Michaela Hoffman, Howard C. Becker +2 more

Cyp2e1 deletion in mice increases sensitivity to ethanol‐induced motor impairment and escalation of drinking behavior in the chronic intermittent ethanol model

Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research(2025)10.1111/acer.70188

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2 citations

Kelly R. Misare, Kate E. Glorioso, Joe R. Delaney, Howard C. Becker, Marcelo F. Lopez +3 more

Alcohol drinking is associated with greater calcium activity in mouse central amygdala dynorphin-expressing neurons

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry(2025)10.1016/j.pnpbp.2025.111445

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1 citations

Jennifer A. Rinker, Krysten O’Hara, Christopher S. McMahan, Michaela Hoffman, Howard C. Becker +2 more

Targeting G9a decreases escalated alcohol drinking in male mice in a model of combined stress and chronic alcohol exposure

Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research(2025)10.1111/acer.70142

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1 citations

Paulina Misztak, Howard C. Becker, Christopher W. Cowan, Ethan M. Anderson, Marcelo F. Lopez

Brain regional gene expression network analysis identifies unique interactions between chronic ethanol exposure and consumption

PLoS ONE(2020)10.1371/journal.pone.0233319

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13 citations

Marcelo F. Lopez, Aaron R. Wolen, Howard C. Becker, Michael F. Miles, Maren L. Smith

Exercise (Wheel-Running) Reduces Chronic Alcohol-Induced Escalation of Drinking in Mice via Elevated BDNF-TrkB Receptor Activity

Preprints.org(2025)10.20944/preprints202509.2413.v1

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0 citations

Matthew G. Solomon, Anny Gano, Marcelo F. Lopez, Howard C. Becker

Transcriptome Analysis of Alcohol Drinking in Non-Dependent and Dependent Mice Following Repeated Cycles of Forced Swim Stress Exposure

Brain Sciences(2020)10.3390/brainsci10050275

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20 citations

Gayatri R. Tiwari, Olga Ponomareva, Marcelo F. Lopez, R. Dayne Mayfield, Howard C. Becker +1 more

Interaction of chronic intermittent ethanol and repeated stress on structural and functional plasticity in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex

Neuropharmacology(2020)10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108396

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16 citations

Tiffany Nguyen, Audrey E. Padula, Jennifer A. Rinker, Marcelo F. Lopez, Howard C. Becker +3 more