Neural activity in the ventral pallidum encodes variation in the incentive value of a reward cue

AM Ahrens, PJ Meyer, LM Ferguson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
There is considerable individual variation in the extent to which reward cues are attributed
with incentive salience. For example, a food-predictive conditioned stimulus (CS; an …

The importance of the vaginal delivery route for antiretrovirals in HIV prevention

LM Ferguson, LC Rohan - Therapeutic delivery, 2011 - Future Science
The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to be a global health priority, with high rates of new HIV-1
infections persisting in young women. One HIV prevention strategy is topical pre-exposure …

Neurons of the ventral tegmental area encode individual differences in motivational “wanting” for reward cues

LM Ferguson, AM Ahrens, LG Longyear… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
It has been argued that the dopaminergic system is involved in the attribution of motivational
value to reward predictive cues as well as prediction error. To evaluate, dopamine neurons …

Hysterectomy and ovarian function: levels of follicle stimulating hormone and incidence of menopausal symptoms are not affected by hysterectomy in women under …

…, D Usher, P Warner, D Evans, M Ferguson - …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To investigate levels of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), as a measure of ovarian
function and menopausal symptoms prior to and following hysterectomy in women under …

Dynamic encoding of incentive salience in the ventral pallidum: dependence on the form of the reward cue

AM Ahrens, LM Ferguson, TE Robinson, JW Aldridge - eneuro, 2018 - eneuro.org
Some rats are especially prone to attribute incentive salience to a cue (conditioned stimulus,
CS) paired with food reward (sign-trackers, STs), but the extent they do so varies as a …

Canadian stroke best practice recommendations for acute stroke management: prehospital, emergency department, and acute inpatient stroke care, update 2018

…, L Casaubon, D Ferguson… - … Journal of Stroke, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The 2018 update of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations for Acute Stroke
Management, 6th edition, is a comprehensive summary of current evidence-based …

The ins and outs of the striatum: role in drug addiction

LM Yager, AF Garcia, AM Wunsch, SM Ferguson - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
Addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by the loss of control over drug intake,
high motivation to obtain the drug, and a persistent craving for the drug. Accumulating …

High‐resolution 3D quantitative analysis of caveolar ultrastructure and caveola–cytoskeleton interactions

…, C Ferguson, J Galea, J Goh, MR Lindsay… - Traffic, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Caveolae are characteristic invaginations of the mammalian plasma membrane (PM)
implicated in lipid regulation, signal transduction and endocytosis. We have employed electron …

The persistence of brines in sedimentary basins

G Ferguson, JC McIntosh, SE Grasby… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Brines are commonly found at depth in sedimentary basins. Many of these brines are known
to be connate waters that have persisted since the early Paleozoic Era. Yet questions …

A Moral Emergency and a Medical Problem: Negotiating the Control of Venereal Disease-The Saskatchewan Venereal Disease Protection Act, 1946

LM Ferguson - Sask. L. Rev., 2004 - HeinOnline
The author examines Saskatchewan legislation that regulated venereal disease. Although
venereal disease legislation was introduced in Saskatchewan in 1919, the centrepiece of this …