Ryan Butler, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School | Graduate School Departments Psychiatry | Pediatrics Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering Research Interest Evolution of molecular components of the nervous system Gene therapy for genetic disorders How pain alters cognitive function and leads to co-morbid addiction How pain is altered by cognitive state Publications RNAi-Induced Expression of Paternal UBE3A Kang HR, Zaric V, Rybalchenko V, Gray SJ, Butler RK Genes 2026 Feb 17 Altered Behavior and Neuronal Activity with Paternal Snord116 Deletion Scott DS, Zaric V, Tamminga CA, Butler RK Genes 2025 Aug 16 RNAi Knockdown of EHMT2 in Maternal Expression of Prader–Willi Syndrome Genes Zaric V, Kang HR, Rybalchenko V, Zigman JM, Gray SJ, Butler RK Genes 2024 Nov 15 Effects of thermoneutrality on food intake, body weight, and body composition in a Prader-Willi syndrome mouse model Osborne-Lawrence S, Lawrence C, Metzger NP, Klavon J, Baig HR, Richard C, Varshney S, Gupta D, Singh O, Ogden SB, Shankar K, Paul S, Butler RK, Zigman JM Obesity 2023 Jun 31 1644-1654 Amygdala Arginine Vasopressin Modulates Chronic Ethanol Withdrawal Anxiety-Like Behavior in the Social Interaction Task Harper KM, Knapp DJ, Butler RK, Cook CA, Criswell HE, Stuber GD, Breese GR Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 2019 Oct 43 2134-2143 Hemispheric differences in the number of parvalbumin-positive neurons in subdivisions of the rat basolateral amygdala complex Butler RK, Oliver EM, Fadel JR, Wilson MA Brain Research 2018 Jan 1678 214-219 Distinct neuronal populations in the basolateral and central amygdala are activated with acute pain, conditioned fear, and fear-conditioned analgesia Butler RK, Ehling S, Barbar M, Thomas J, Hughes MA, Smith CE, Pogorelov VM, Aryal DK, Wetsel WC, Lascelles BD Neuroscience letters 2017 Nov 661 11-17 A mouse model for chronic pain-induced increase in ethanol consumption Butler RK, Knapp DJ, Ulici V, Longobardi L, Loeser RF, Breese GR Pain 2017 158 457-462 Activation of corticotropin releasing factor-containing neurons in the rat central amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis following exposure to two different anxiogenic stressors Butler RK, Oliver EM, Sharko AC, Parilla-Carrero J, Kaigler KF, Fadel JR, Wilson MA Behavioural Brain Research 2016 May 304 92-101 Comparison of the activation of somatostatin- and neuropeptide Y-containing neuronal populations of the rat amygdala following two different anxiogenic stressors Butler RK, White LC, Frederick-Duus D, Kaigler KF, Fadel JR, Wilson MA Experimental Neurology 2012 Nov 238 52-63 Results 1-10 of 18 1 2 Next Last Professional Associations/Affiliations Society for Neuroscience (2009)
