Publications

Pre-prints

Reward pursuit during a translational reward task predicts anhedonia reductions following rTMS in patients with major depressive disorder.
Abram, S.V., McInnes, A.N., Suillivan, C.R.P., Cooper, D.C., Sweis, B.M., Widge, A.S. Preprint on PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/6c4vz_v1 (manuscript under review).

Chronic social stress induces isolated deficits in reward anticipation on a neuroeconomic foraging task.
Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Martínez-Rivera, F., Li, L., Minier-Toribio, A., Russo, S.J., Nestler, E.J., Sweis, B.M. Pre-print on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.17.476514v1 (manuscript in revision).

Ketamine reverses stress-induced hypersensitivity to sunk costs.
Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Sweis, B.M. Pre-print on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.12.593597v1 (manuscript in preparation).

Ensemble remodeling supports memory-updating.
Mau, W., Baggetta, A.M., Dong, Z., Sweis, B.M., Morales-Rodrigues, D., Pennington, Z.T., Francisco, T., Freedman, D.J., Baxter, M.G., Shuman, T., Cai, D.J. Pre-print on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.02.494530v2 (manuscript in revision).

Peer-reviewed

Change-of-mind neuroeconomic decision-making is modulated by LINC00473 in medial prefrontal cortex in a sex-dependent manner.
Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Issler, O., Pedersen, S.M.B., Yakubov, B., Jahan, N., Abid, A., Kasparov, S., Granizo, K., Ahmed, S., Russo, S.J., Nestler, E.J., Sweis, B.M. Science Advances 11(28): eadr3228. July 11, 2025. PMCID: PMC12248383.

Simultaneous dual-color calcium imaging in freely-behaving mice.
Dong, Z., Feng, Y., Diego, K., Baggetta, A., Sweis, B.M., Pennington, Z.T., Lamsifer, S.I., Zaki, Y., Sangiuliano Jimka, F., Philipsberg, P.A., Morales-Rodriguez, D., Kircher, D.M., Slesinger, P., Shuman, T., Aharoni, D., Cai, D.J. Science Advances 11(27): eadr6470. July 2, 2025. PMCID: PMC11244962.

Diabetes alters neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting.
Nwakama, C.A., Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Oketokoun, Z.M., Brown, S.O., Haller, J.E., Méndez, A., Farshbaf M.J., Cho, Y.Z., Ahmed, S., Ables, J.L., Sweis, B.M. Communications Biology 8 (102). January 21, 2025. PMCID: PMC11751097.

Policy consequences of the new neuroeconomic framework.
Redish, A.D, Chastain, H.S., Runge, C.F., Sweis, B.M., Allen, S.E., Haldar, A. In Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions, D. V. Smith, D. Fareri, P. Lockwood, eds. Springer Nature. Pre-print on aRxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07373 (in press).

A double-hit of social and economic stress in mice precipitates changes in decision-making strategies.
Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Martínez-Rivera, F., Li, L., Minier-Toribio, A., Dong, Z., Cai, D.J., Russo, S.J., Nestler, E.J., Sweis, B.M. Biological Psychiatry S0006-3223 (23): 01786-9. December 21, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.011.

A quadruple dissociation of reward-related behavior across excitatory inputs to the nucleus accumbens shell.
Lind, E.B., Sweis, B.M., Asp, A.J., Esguerra, M., Silvis, K.A., Redish, A.D., Thomas, M.J. Communications Biology 6, 119. January 30, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04429-6. PMID: 36717646.

Pushing the boundaries of behavioral analysis could aid psychiatric drug discovery.
Sweis, B.M., Nestler, E.J. PLoS Biology 20 (12): e3001904. December 8, 2022. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001904. PMID: 36480527.

Sunk cost sensitivity on the Restaurant Row and WebSurf tasks arises from processes that depend on costs sunk and costs remaining.
Redish, A.D., Abram, S., Cunningham, P.J., Duin, A.A., Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Kazinka, R., Kocharian, A., MacDonald, A.W., Schmidt, B., Schmitzer-Torbert, N., Thomas, M.J., Sweis, B.M. Communications Biology 5:1337. December 7, 2022. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04235-6. PMID: 36474069.

Distinct forms of regret linked to resilience versus susceptibility to stress are regulated by region-specific CREB function in mice.
Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Martínez-Rivera, F., Li, L., Minier-Toribio, A., Cathomas, F., Holt, L., Yasmin, F., Elhassa, S.O., Shaikh, J.F., Ahmed, S., Russo, S.J., Nestler, E.J., Sweis, B.M. Science Advances 8 (42): eadd5579. October 19, 2022. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add5579. PMID: 36260683.

Dynamic and heterogenous neural ensembles contribute to a memory engram.
Sweis, B.M., Mau, W., Rabinowitz, S., Cai, D.J. Current Opinion In Neurobiology 67: 199-206. April 1, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.11.017. PMCID: PMC8192335.

A testable definition of curiosity.
Wang, M.Z., Sweis, B.M., Hayden, B.Y. Invited IEEE CIS Newsletter Dialogue on Cognitive and Developmental Robotics Systems 14 (2): 6. October 10, 2018.

Beyond Simple Tests of Value: A neuroeconomic, translational, disease-relevant, and circuit-based approach to resolve the computational complexity of decision making.
Sweis, B.M. PhD Dissertation. University of Minnesota. 2018.

Beyond simple tests of value: Measuring addiction as a heterogeneous disease of computation-specific valuation processes.
Sweis, B.M., Thomas, M.J., Redish, A.D. Learning & Memory 25: 501–512. doi: 10.1101/lm.047795.118. August 16, 2018. PMCID: PMC6097760.

Sensitivity to “sunk costs” in mice, rats, and humans.
Sweis, B.M., Abram, S., Schmidt, B., Seeland, K., MacDonald, A.W., Thomas, M.J., Redish, A.D. Science 361 (6398): 178-181. doi: 10.1126/science.aar8644. July 13, 2018. PMCID: PMC6377599.
• see also perspective commentary by S. F. Brosnan “When persistence doesn’t pay” Science 361:124-125.

Prolonged abstinence from cocaine or morphine disrupts separable valuations during decision conflict.
Sweis, B.M., Redish, A.D., Thomas, M.J. Nature Communications 9 (1): 2521. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04967-2. June 28, 2018. PMCID: PMC6023899.

Altering gain of the infralimbic to accumbens shell circuit alters economically dissociable decision-making algorithms.
Sweis, B.M., Larson, E.B., Redish, A.D., Thomas, M.J. PNAS 115 (27): E6347-E6355. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803084115. June 18, 2018. PMCID: PMC6142249.

Mice learn to avoid regret.
Sweis, B.M., Thomas, M.J., Redish, A.D. PLoS Biology 16 (6): e2005853. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005853. June 21, 2018. PMCID: PMC6013153.

Neonatal hyperglycemia induces CXCL10/CXCR3 signaling and microglial activation and impairs long-term synaptogenesis in the hippocampus and alters behavior in rats.
Satrom, K.M., Ennis, K., Sweis, B.M., Matveeva, T.M., Chen, J., Hanson, L., Maheshwari, A., Rao, R. Journal of Neuroinflammation 15: 82. doi: 10.1186/s12974-018-1121-9. March 15, 2018. PMCID: PMC5856387.

Comparisons between Garcia, Modo, and Longa Stroke Scales: Optimizing resource allocation in rat models of focal middle cerebral artery occlusion.
Bachour, O., Sweis, B.M., Brekke, J.A., Mahmoudi, J., Divani, A.A. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 364: 136-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.03.029. May 15, 2016.

A modified beam-walking apparatus for assessment of anxiety in a rodent model of blast traumatic brain injury.
Sweis, B.M., Bachour, S.P., Brekke, J.A., Gewirtz, J.C., Sadeghi-Bzargani, H., Hevesi, M., Divani, A.A. Behavioural Brain Research 296: 149-156. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.09.015. January 1, 2016.

Individual differences in the effects of chronic stress on memory: Behavioral and neurochemical correlates of resiliency.
Sweis, B.M., Veverka, K.K., Dhillon, E.S., Urban, J.H., Lucas, L.R. Neuroscience 246: 142-159. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.04.052. August 29, 2013.

Time course of inhibitory control during analogical reasoning: An event-related potential approach.
Sweis, B.M., Bharani, K.L., Morrison, R.G. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, August 2012.