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Theresa Bjorness, Ph.D.

Theresa Bjorness, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assistant Professor

Schools
Medical School
Departments
Psychiatry
  • Education
    Graduate School
    University of Michigan-Ann Arb (2007)
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Orexin-mediated motivated arousal and reward seeking.
    Bjorness TE, Greene RW, Peptides 2024 Oct 180 171280
    Arousal-Mediated Sleep Disturbance Persists During Cocaine Abstinence in Male Mice.
    Bjorness TE, Greene RW, Front Neurosci 2022 16 868049
    Interaction between cocaine use and sleep behavior: A comprehensive review of cocaine's disrupting influence on sleep behavior and sleep disruptions influence on reward seeking.
    Bjorness TE, Greene RW, Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2021 Jul 206 173194
    Sleeping Sickness Disrupts the Sleep-Regulating Adenosine System.
    Rijo-Ferreira F, Bjorness TE, Cox KH, Sonneborn A, Greene RW, Takahashi JS, J Neurosci 2020 Nov 40 48 9306-9316
    An essential role for MEF2C in the cortical response to loss of sleep in mice.
    Bjorness TE, Kulkarni A, Rybalchenko V, Suzuki A, Bridges C, Harrington AJ, Cowan CW, Takahashi JS, Konopka G, Greene RW, Elife 2020 08 9
    Gating and the Need for Sleep: Dissociable Effects of Adenosine A1 and A2A Receptors.
    Lazarus M, Oishi Y, Bjorness TE, Greene RW, Front Neurosci 2019 13 740
    Sleep deprivation alters the time course but not magnitude of locomotor sensitization to cocaine.
    Bjorness TE, Greene RW Sci Rep 2018 Dec 8 1 17672
    Hippocampal theta power pressure builds over non-REM sleep and dissipates within REM sleep episodes.
    Bjorness TE, Booth V, Poe GR Arch Ital Biol 2018 Sep 156 3 112-126
    Dose response of acute cocaine on sleep/waking behavior in mice.
    Bjorness TE, Greene RW, Neurobiol Sleep Circadian Rhythms 2018 Jun 5 84-93
    The adenosine-mediated, neuronal-glial, homeostatic sleep response.
    Greene RW, Bjorness TE, Suzuki A Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 2017 Jun 44 236-242