Publications and Manuscripts:

1. Brake , S.C. , Sullivan, R., Sager, D.J. and Hofer, M.A. (1982). Short and long-term effects of various milk delivery contingencies on sucking and nipple attachment in rat pups. Developmental Psychobiology, 15:543-556. (Abstract) (PDF)

2. Brake, S.C., Sager, D.J., Sullivan, R.M. and Hofer, M.A. (1982). The role of intra-oral and gastrointestinal cues in the control of sucking and milk consumption in rat pups. Developmental Psychobiology, 15:529-541. (PDF)

3. Wilson , D.A., Sullivan, R.M., and Leon , M. (1985). Odor familiarity alters mitral cell response in the olfactory bulb of neonatal rats. Developmental Brain Research, 22:314-317. (Abstract)

4. Sullivan, R.M. and Leon , M. (1986). Early olfactory learning induces an enhanced olfactory bulb response in young rats. Developmental Brain Research, 27:278-282. (Abstract)

5. Sullivan, R.M., Brake, S.C., Hofer, M.A. and Williams, C.L. (1986). Huddling and independent feeding of neonatal rats can be facilitated by a conditioned change in behavioral state. Developmental Psychobiology, 19:625-635. (Abstract) (PDF)

6. Sullivan, R.M., Hofer, M.A. and Brake, S.C. (1986). Olfactory-guided orientation in neonatal rats is enhanced by a conditioned change in behavioral state. Developmental Psychobiology, 19: 615-623. (Abstract) (PDF)

7. Leon , M., Coopersmith, R., Lee, S., Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A., and Woo, C. (1987). Neural and behavioral plasticity induced by early olfactory learning. In: N.A. Krasnegor, E. Blass, M.A. Hofer, and W. Smotherman (Eds.), Perinatal Development: A Psychobiologic Perspective. Academic Press, New York . pp. 145-168. (PDF)

8. Wilson , D.A., Sullivan, R.M. and Leon , M. (1987). Single-unit analysis of postnatal olfactory learning: Modified olfactory bulb output response patterns to learned attractive odors. The Journal of Neuroscience, 7:3154-3162. (Abstract) ( PDF )

9. Sullivan, R.M. and Leon , M. (1987). One-trial olfactory learning enhances olfactory bulb responses in 7-day-old rats. Developmental Brain Research, 35:307-311. (Abstract)

10. Sullivan, R.M. and Hall, W.G. (1988). Reinforcers in infancy: Classical conditioning using tactile stroking or intra-oral milk infusions as UCS. Developmental Psychobiology, 20:215-223. (PDF)

11. Sullivan, R.M., Shokrai, N., and Leon , M. (1988). Physical stimulation reduces the body temperature of infant rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 20:225-235. (Abstract)

12. Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A. and Leon , M. (1988). Physical stimulation reduces the brain temperature of infant rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 20:237-250. (Abstract)

13. Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A., Kim, M.H. and Leon , M. (1988). Behavioral and neural correlates of postnatal olfactory conditioning: I. Effects of respiration on conditioned neural response. Physiology and Behavior, 44:85-90. (Abstract)

14. Do, J.T., Sullivan, R.M., and Leon , M. (1988). Behavioral and neural correlates of postnatal olfactory conditioning: II. Respiration during conditioning. Developmental Psychobiology, 21:591-600.

15. Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A., and Leon , M. (1989). Associative processes in early olfactory preference acquisition: Neural and behavioral consequences. Psychobiology, 17:29-33.

16. Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A., and Leon , M. (1989). Norepinephrine and learning-induced plasticity in infant rat olfactory system. The Journal of Neuroscience, 9:3998-4006. (Abstract) ( PDF )

17. Leon , M., Coopersmith, R., Beasley, L.J., and Sullivan, R.M. (1990). Thermal aspects of parenting. In: N. Krasnegor and R. Bridges (Eds.), Mammalian Parenting. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford , pp. 400-415. (PDF)

18. Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A., Wong, R., Correa, A., and Leon , M. (1990). Modified behavioral olfactory bulb responses to maternal odors in preweanling rats. Developmental Brain Research, 53:243-247. (Abstract) (PDF)

19. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1990). Olfactory associative conditioning in infant rats with brain stimulation as reward. I. Neurobehavioral consequences. Developmental Brain Research, 53:215-221. (Abstract) (PDF)

20. Wilson , D.A., Sullivan, R.M. and Leon , M. (1991). A search for neural mechanisms of postnatal olfactory conditioning. In: H.N. Shair, G.A. Barr, and M.A. Hofer (Eds.), Developmental Psychobiology: Current Methodological and Conceptual Issues. Oxford University Press, pp. 287-300. (PDF)

21. Sullivan, R.M., Taborsky-Barba, S., Mendoza , R., Itano, A., Leon , M., Cotman, C., Payne, T. and Lott, I. (1991) Olfactory classical conditioning in neonates. Pediatrics, 87:511-518. (Abstract) (PDF)

22. Sullivan, R.M., McGaugh, J. and Leon , M. (1991). Norepinephrine-induced plasticity and one-trial olfactory learning in neonatal rats. Developmental Brain Research, 60:219-228. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

23. Sullivan, R.M. and Wilson, D.A. (1991). The role of norepinephrine in the expression of learned olfactory neurobehavioral responses in infant rats. Psychobiology, 19:308-312. (Abstract) (PDF)

24. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1991). Olfactory associative conditioning in infant rats with brain stimulation as reward. II. Norepinephrine mediates a specific component of the bulb response to reward. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105:843-849. Free Access Pubmed

25. Sullivan, R.M. and Wilson , D.A. (1991) Neural correlates of conditioned odor avoidance in infant rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105:307-312. Free Access Pubmed

26. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1992). Blockade of mitral/tufted cell habituation to odors by association with reward: A preliminary note. Brain Research, 594:143-145. (Abstract) (PDF)

27. Sullivan, R.M., Zyzak, D., Skierkowski, P. and Wilson, D.A. (1992). The role of olfactory bulb norepinephrine in early olfactory learning. Developmental Brain Research, 70:279-282. (Abstract) (PDF)

28. Sullivan, R.M. and Wilson, D.A. (1993). Role of the amygdala complex in early olfactory associative learning. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107:254-263. (Abstract) (PDF)

29. McLean , J.H., Darby-King, A., Sullivan, R.M. and King, S.R. (1993) Serotonergic influence on olfactory learning in the neonatal rat. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 60:152-162. (Abstract) (PDF)

30. Hamrick, W.D., Wilson , D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1993). Neural correlates of memory for odor detection conditioning in adult rats. Neuroscience Letters, 163:36-40. (Abstract) (PDF)

31. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1994). Review: Neurobiology of associative learning in the neonate: Early olfactory learning. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 61:1-18. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

32. Sullivan, R.M., Wilson , D.A., Lemon, C. and Gerhardt, G.A. (1994). Bilateral 6-OHDA lesions of the locus coeruleus impair associative olfactory learning in newborn rats. Brain Research, 643:306-309. (Abstract) (PDF)

33. Sullivan, R.M. and Wilson, D.A. (1994) The locus coeruleus, norepinephrine and memory in newborns. Brain Research Bulletin, 35:467-472. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

34. Wilson , D.A., Pham, T. and Sullivan, R.M. (1994) Norepinephrine and posttraining memory consolidation in neonatal rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 108:1053-1058. (Abstract) (PDF)

35. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1995) The D2 Antagonist spiperone mimics the effects of olfactory deprivation on mitral/tufted cell odor response patterns. The Journal of Neuroscience, 15:5574-5581. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

36. Sullivan, R.M. and Wilson, D.A. (1995) Dissociation of behavioral and neural correlates of early associative learning. Developmental Psychobiology, 28:213-219. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

37. Wilson , D.A., Sullivan, R.M., Gall, C.M. and Guthrie, K.M. (1996) NMDA-receptor modulation of lateral inhibition and c-fos expression in olfactory bulb. Brain Research, 719:62-71. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

38. Woo, C.C., Wilson , D.A., Sullivan, R.M. and Leon , M. (1996) Early locus coeruleus lesions increase density of beta-adrenergic receptors in the main olfactory bulb of rats. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 14:913-919. (Abstract) (PDF)

39. Litaudon, P, Mouly, A., Sullivan, R., Gervais, R. and Cattarelli, M. (1997) Learning -induced changes in rat piriform cortex activity mapped using multisite recording with voltage sensitive dye. European Journal of Neuroscience, 9:1593-1602. (Abstract) (PDF)

40. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1998) Peripheral mechanisms of smell. In: R.W.A. Linden (Ed.), The Scientific Basis of Eating: Frontiers in Oral Biology, vol. 9, pp 29-39. (Abstract) (PDF)

41. Sullivan, R.M. and Toubas, P. (1998) Clinical usefulness of maternal odor in newborns: Soothing and feeding preparatory responses. Biology of the Neonate, 74:402-408. (Abstract) (PDF)

42. Landers, M. and Sullivan, R.M. (1999) Vibrissae-evoked behavior and conditioning before functional ontogeny of the somatosensory vibrissae cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19:5131-5137. (Abstract) ( PDF )

43. Landers, M. and Sullivan, R.M. (1999) Norepinephrine and associative conditioning in the neonatal rat somatosensory system. Developmental Brain Research, 114:261-264. (Abstract) (PDF)

44. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (1999) Respiratory airflow pattern at the rat's snout and an hypothesis regarding its role in olfaction. Physiology and Behavior: 66:41-44. (Abstract) (PDF)

45. Sullivan, R.M., Landers, M., Yeaman, B. and Wilson, D.A. (2000) Good memories of bad events in infancy: Ontogeny of conditioned fear and the amygdala. Nature, 407:38-39. (PDF)

46. Sullivan, R.M., Stackenwalt, G. Nasr, F., Lemon, C. and Wilson, D.A. (2000) Association of an odor with activation of olfactory bulb noradrenergic B-receptors or locus coeruleus stimulation is sufficient to produce learned approach responses to that odor in neonatal rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 114:957-962. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

47. Hofer, M.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (2001) Towards a neurobiology of attachment. In: C.A. Nelson and M. Luciana (Eds.), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, pp 599-616. (Abstract) (PDF)

48. Roth, T. and Sullivan, R.M. (2001) Endogenous opioids and their role in odor preference acquisition and consolidation following odor-shock conditioning in infant rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 39:188-198. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

49. Sullivan, R.M. (2001) Unique characteristics of neonatal classical conditioning: The role of the amygdala and locus coeruleus. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 36:293-30. (Abstract) Free access PubMed

50. Roth, T.L. and Sullivan, R.M. (2003) Consolidation and expression of a shock-induced odor preference in rat pups is facilitated by opioids, Physiology and Behavior, 78(1):135-142. (Abstract) Free Access Pubmed

51. Sullivan, R.M. and Wilson , D.A. (2003) Molecular biology of early olfactory memory. Learning and Memory, 10:1-4. (PDF)

52. Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (2003) Sensory physiology of central olfactory pathways. In: R. Doty (Ed.), Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation, 2nd Ed. Marcel Dekker Inc, NY, pp 181-201. (PDF)

53. Sullivan, R.M., Landers, M., Fleming, J., Young, T. and Polan, J. (2003) Characterizing the functional significance of neonatal rat vibrissae prior to the onset of whisking. Somatosensory and Motor Research, 20(2):157-162. (Abstract) Free access PubMed

54. Sullivan, R.M. (2003) Developing a Sense of Safety: The Neurobiology of Neonatal Attachment. In: King, J., Ferris, C., and Lederhendler, I. (Eds.), Roots of Mental Illness in Children. New York Academy of Science, vol. 1008, pp 122-132. (Abstract) Free access PubMed

55. Moriceau, S. and Sullivan, R.M. (2004) Unique neural circuitry of neonatal olfactory learning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 1182-1189 Free access PubMed

56. Wilson, D.A., Fletcher, M.L. and Sullivan, R.M. (2004) Acetylcholine and Olfactory Perceptual Learning. Learning and Memory, 11: 28-34 Free access PubMed

57. Moriceau, S. and Sullivan, R.M.(2004) Corticosterone Influences on neonatal sensitive-period learning . Behavioral Neuroscience., 118: 274-281 Free Full access PubMed

58. Wilson, DA, Best, AR, and Sullivan, RM (2004) Plasticity in the olfactory system: Lessons for the neurobiology of memory. The Neuroscientist, 10:513-524. Free access PubMed

59. Moriceau, S., Roth, T.L., Okotoghaide, T. and Sullivan, R.M. (2004) Corticosterone controls the developmental emergence of fear and amygdala function to predator odors in infant rat pups. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 22: 415-422. Free Access Pubmed

60. Roth, T.L., Wilson, D.A. and Sullivan, R.M. (2004) Neurobehavioral development of infant learning and memory: Implications for infant attachment. In: P. Slater, J. Rosenblatt, C.T. Snowdon, and T.J. Ropers (Eds.), Advances in the Study of Behavior, vol 31.103-123 (PDF)

61. Roth, T.L. and Sullivan, R.M. (2005) Memory of Early Maltreatment: Neonatal Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Maltreatment Within Context of Classical Conditioning. Biological Psychiatry 57:823-831 Free access PubMed

62. Sullivan R.M. (2005) Developmental changes in olfactory behavior and limbic circuitry. Chemical Senses, 30: 152-153. Free access PubMed

63 . Moriceau S., and Sullivan, R.M. (2005) Neurobiology of Infant Attachment. Developmental Psychobiology. 47:230-242. Free access PubMed

64. Roth T. L. and Sullivan R.M. (2006) Examining the role of endogeneous opioids in learned odor-stroke associations in infant rats. Developmental Psychobiology 48:71-78. Free access PubMed

65.Moriceau S., Wilson D.A., Levine S, and Sullivan R.M. (2006) Dual circuitry for odor-shock conditioning during infancy: Corticosterone switches between fear and attraction via amyglada. Journal of Neuroscience, 26:6737-6748. (Highlighted in "This Week in the Journal").Free access PubMed

66. Moriceau S., and Sullivan R.M. (2006) Maternal Presence serves to switch between learning fear and attraction in infancy. Nature Neuroscience, 9:1004-1006. (Highlighted Article). Free access PubMed

67. Roth T.L., Moriceau S. and Sullivan R.M. (2006) Opiod modulation of Fos protein expression and olfactory circuitry plays a pivotal role in what neonates remember. Learning and Memory 13: 590-598. Free access PubMed

68. Sullivan R.M., Feldon J., Richter-Levin G., Wilson D.A., Yee B.K., Meyer U., Avi A., Michael T., and Braun K. (2006) Impact of early life experiences on brain and behavioral development. Developmental Psychobiology 48: 583-602. (PDF)

69. Shionoya K., Moriceau S., Lunday L., Miner C., Roth T.L., and Regina M. Sullivan (2006) Developmental switch in neural circuitry underlying odor-malaise learning. Learning and Memory 13:801-808. Free access PubMed

70. Roth, T. L. Levenson, J.M., Sullivan, R.M. and Sweatt, D.J. (in press) Epigenetic marking of the genome by early experience: implications for long-lasting effects of early maltreatment on adult cognitive and emotional health. Child Abuse and its Impact (Ed).

71. Sevelinges Y., Moriceau S., Holman P., Miner C., Muzny K., Gervais R., Mouly A.M., and Sullivan R.M. (in press) Memory of Infant Trauma: Infant fear conditioning attenuates adult learning. Biological Psychiatry.

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