Eric Mitten

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PhD 2024

PhD Thesis

Spirits in Distress: Converging plasticity of ventral tegmental area gamma amino-butyric acid neurons evoked by chronic ethanol or stress controls anxiety symptomatology.

Undergraduate Institution and Major:

University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A. in Neuroscience and Psychology, 2019

Graduate Advisor:

Kevin Wickman, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology

Graduate Publications:

• Debaker MC, Mitten EH, Rose TR, de Velasco EMF, Gao R, Lee AM, Wickman K. RGS6 negatively regulates inhibitory G protein signaling in VTA dopamine neurons and positively regulates binge-like alcohol consumption in mice. Br J Pharmacol. 2023 Aug;180(16):2140-2155. 
• Rose TR, Marron Fernandez de Velasco E, Mitten EH, Wickman K. GIRK channel activity in prelimbic pyramidal neurons regulates the extinction of cocaine conditioned place preference in male mice. Addict Biol. 2023 Jan;28(1):e13256.