Publications

Our current research focuses on birth of the hair follicle niche, growth control and regeneration, and tissue regression and reorganization.

Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Issler, O., Yakubov, B., Jahan, N., Abid, A., Kasparov, S., Granizo, K., Ahmed, S., Russo, S.J., Nestler, E.J., Sweis, B.M. Sex-dependent effects of medial prefrontal LINC00473 on changes-of-mind in neuroeconomic decision-making. Pre-print on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.08.592609v1

 

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

 

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

 

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. Simultaneous dual-color calcium imaging in freely-behaving mice. Pre-print on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.03.601770v1

 

 

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. Ensemble remodeling supports memory-updating. Pre-print on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.02.494530v2 

 

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. Diabetes alters neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting. Communications Biology 8 (102). January 21, 2025. PMCID: PMC11751097.

 

Redish, A.D, Chastain, H.S., Runge, C.F., Sweis, B.M., Allen, S.E., Haldar, A. Policy consequences of the new neuroeconomic framework. 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)

 

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. A double-hit of social and economic stress in mice precipitates changes in decision-making strategies. Biological Psychiatry S0006-3223 (23): 01786-9. December 21, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.011

 

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

 

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

 

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. Sunk cost sensitivity on the Restaurant Row and WebSurf tasks arises from processes that depend on costs sunk and costs remaining. Communications Biology 5:1337. December 7, 2022. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04235-6. PMID: 36474069

 

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. Distinct forms of regret linked to resilience versus susceptibility to stress are regulated by region-specific CREB function in mice. Science Advances 8(42): eadd5579. October 19, 2022. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add5579. PMID: 36260683

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Sweis, B.M., Abram, S., Schmidt, B., Seeland, K., MacDonald, A.W., Thomas, M.J., Redish, A.D. Sensitivity to “sunk costs” in mice, rats, and humans. 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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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