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Michael V. Baratta

University of Colorado Boulder
Verified email at colorado.edu
Cited by 6485

Behavioral control, the medial prefrontal cortex, and resilience

SF Maier, J Amat, MV Baratta, E Paul… - Dialogues in clinical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The degree of control that an organism has over a stressor potently modulates the impact of
the stressor, with uncontrollable stressors producing a constellation of outcomes that do not …

Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus

J Amat, MV Baratta, E Paul, ST Bland, LR Watkins… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
… The analytical cell potentials were kept at −75 mV and +250 mV and the guard cell at +300mV.
Dialysate (23 μl) was injected with an ESA 542 autosampler that kept the dialysates at 6 C…

Dynamic microglial alterations underlie stress-induced depressive-like behavior and suppressed neurogenesis

…, R Reshef, O Ben-Menachem-Zidon, MV Baratta… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
The limited success in understanding the pathophysiology of major depression may result
from excessive focus on the dysfunctioning of neurons, as compared with other types of brain …

Microglia serve as a neuroimmune substrate for stress-induced potentiation of CNS pro-inflammatory cytokine responses

MG Frank, MV Baratta, DB Sprunger, LR Watkins… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Prior exposure to a stressor can potentiate CNS pro-inflammatory immune responses to a
peripheral immune challenge. However, the neuroimmune substrate(s) mediating this effect …

[HTML][HTML] A high-light sensitivity optical neural silencer: development and application to optogenetic control of non-human primate cortex

…, A Chuong, R Rajimehr, A Yang, MV Baratta… - Frontiers in systems …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
… ; resting membrane potential was approximately −60 mV in current-clamp recording. To …
in neurons voltage clamped at −60 mV. Light-induced membrane hyperpolarizations were …

Morphine paradoxically prolongs neuropathic pain in rats by amplifying spinal NLRP3 inflammasome activation

…, DJ Urban, X Wang, MV Baratta… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Opioid use for pain management has dramatically increased, with little assessment of potential
pathophysiological consequences for the primary pain condition. Here, a short course of …

SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 subunit induces neuroinflammatory, microglial and behavioral sickness responses: Evidence of PAMP-like properties

…, JB Ball, S Hopkins, T Kelley, MV Baratta… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2022 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 infection produces neuroinflammation as well as neurological, cognitive (ie,
brain fog), and neuropsychiatric symptoms (eg, depression, anxiety), which can persist for an …

[HTML][HTML] From helplessness to controllability: toward a neuroscience of resilience

MV Baratta, MEP Seligman, SF Maier - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
“Learned helplessness” refers to debilitating outcomes, such as passivity and increased fear,
that follow an uncontrollable adverse event, but do not when that event is controllable. The …

fMRI BOLD response to alcohol stimuli in alcohol dependent young women

SF Tapert, GG Brown, MV Baratta, SA Brown - Addictive behaviors, 2004 - Elsevier
Background: Cue reactivity in alcohol dependent adults has revealed autonomic, cognitive,
and neural responses to alcohol-related stimuli that differ from those of nonabusers. Cue …

Sex differences in resilience: Experiential factors and their mechanisms

…, BN Greenwood, MV Baratta - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Adverse life events can lead to stable changes in brain structure and function and are
considered primary sources of risk for post‐traumatic stress disorder, depression and other …