Ryan Butler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Psychiatry | Pediatrics 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 Featured Publications 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 03 158 3 457-462 Stress-induced analgesia. Butler RK, Finn DP Prog. Neurobiol. 2009 Jul 88 3 184-202 Endocannabinoid-mediated enhancement of fear-conditioned analgesia in rats: opioid receptor dependency and molecular correlates. Butler RK, Rea K, Lang Y, Gavin AM, Finn DP Pain 2008 Dec 140 3 491-500 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 Res. 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 BDX Neurosci. Lett. 2017 Nov 661 11-17 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 Behav. Brain Res. 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 Exp. Neurol. 2012 Nov 238 1 52-63 Fear-induced suppression of nociceptive behaviour and activation of Akt signalling in the rat periaqueductal grey: role of fatty acid amide hydrolase. Butler RK, Ford GK, Hogan M, Roche M, Doyle KM, Kelly JP, Kendall DA, Chapman V, Finn DP J. Psychopharmacol. (Oxford) 2012 Jan 26 1 83-91 Molecular and electrophysiological changes in the prefrontal cortex-amygdala-dorsal periaqueductal grey pathway during persistent pain state and fear-conditioned analgesia. Butler RK, Nilsson-Todd L, Cleren C, Léna I, Garcia R, Finn DP Physiol. Behav. 2011 Oct 104 5 1075-81 Activation of phenotypically-distinct neuronal subpopulations of the rat amygdala following exposure to predator odor. Butler RK, Sharko AC, Oliver EM, Brito-Vargas P, Kaigler KF, Fadel JR, Wilson MA Neuroscience 2011 Feb 175 133-44 Results 1-10 of 13 1 2 Next Last Professional Associations/Affiliations Society for Neuroscience (2009)
