Kate M. Wassum, Ph.D.
Titles
Associate Professor, Psychology
Member, Brain Research Institute
Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Contact Information
Email
kwassum@ucla.edu Phone
Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-5443
Address
Mailing Address:
Franz Hall Room 8548Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
Publications
A selected list of publications:
Wassum KM, Greenfield, VY, Linker KE, Maidment NT, Ostlund SB.
Inflated Reward Value in Early Opiate Withdrawal
Addiction Biology,
2014;
.
Tolosa VM, Wassum KM, Maidment NT, Monbouquette HG.
Electrochemically-deposited iridium oxide reference electrode integrated with an electroenzymatic glutamate sensor on a multi-electrode array microprobe,
Biosensors and Bioelectronics,
2013;
.
Wassum KM, Ostlund SB, Loewinger GC, Maidment NT.
Phasic mesolimbic dopamine release tracks reward seeking during expression of Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer,
Biological Psychiatry,
2013;
.
Wassum KM, Ostlund SB, Maidment NT.
Phasic mesolimbic dopamine signaling precedes and predicts performance of a self-initiated action sequence,
Biological Psychiatry,
2012;
.
Wassum KM, Tolosa VM, Tseng TC, Balleine BW, Monbouquette HG, Maidment NT.
Transient extracellular glutamate events in the basolateral amygdala track reward seeking actions,
Journal of Neuroscience,
2012;
.
Lichtenberg Nina T, Pennington Zachary T, Holley Sandra M, Greenfield Venuz Y, Cepeda Carlos, Levine Michael S, Wassum Kate M
Basolateral Amygdala to Orbitofrontal Cortex Projections Enable
Cue-Triggered Reward Expectations
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2017; 37(35):
8374-8384.
Hersman Sarah, Cushman Jesse, Lemelson Noah, Wassum Kate, Lotfipour Shahrdad, Fanselow Michael S
Optogenetic excitation of cholinergic inputs to hippocampus primes
future contextual fear associations
Scientific reports,
2017; 7(1):
2333.
Lichtenberg Nina T, Wassum Kate M
Amygdala mu-opioid receptors mediate the motivating influence of
cue-triggered reward expectations
The European journal of neuroscience,
2017; 45(3):
381-387.
Ostlund Sean B, Liu Angela T, Wassum Kate M, Maidment Nigel T
Modulation of cue-triggered reward seeking by cholinergic signaling in
the dorsomedial striatum
The European journal of neuroscience,
2017; 45(3):
358-364.
Collins Anne L, Aitken Tara J, Greenfield Venuz Y, Ostlund Sean B, Wassum Kate M
Nucleus Accumbens Acetylcholine Receptors Modulate Dopamine and
Motivation
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology,
2016; 41(12):
2830-2838.
Wassum Kate M, Greenfield Venuz Y, Linker Kay E, Maidment Nigel T, Ostlund Sean B
Inflated reward value in early opiate withdrawal
Addiction biology,
2016; 21(2):
221-33.
Aitken Tara J, Greenfield Venuz Y, Wassum Kate M
Nucleus accumbens core dopamine signaling tracks the need-based
motivational value of food-paired cues
Journal of neurochemistry,
2016; 136(5):
1026-36.
Malvaez Melissa, Greenfield Venuz Y, Wang Alice S, Yorita Allison M, Feng Lili, Linker Kay E, Monbouquette Harold G, Wassum Kate M
Corrigendum: Basolateral amygdala rapid glutamate release encodes an
outcome-specific representation vital for reward-predictive cues to
selectively invigorate reward-seeking actions
Scientific reports,
2016; 6(5):
20891.
Collins Anne L, Greenfield Venuz Y, Bye Jeffrey K, Linker Kay E, Wang Alice S, Wassum Kate M
Dynamic mesolimbic dopamine signaling during action sequence learning
and expectation violation
Scientific reports,
2016; 6(5):
20231.
Fanselow Michael S, Wassum Kate M
The Origins and Organization of Vertebrate Pavlovian Conditioning
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology,
2015; 8(1):
a021717.
Malvaez Melissa, Greenfield Venuz Y, Wang Alice S, Yorita Allison M, Feng Lili, Linker Kay E, Monbouquette Harold G, Wassum Kate M
Basolateral amygdala rapid glutamate release encodes an
outcome-specific representation vital for reward-predictive cues to
selectively invigorate reward-seeking actions
Scientific reports,
2015; 5:
12511.
Wassum Kate M, Izquierdo Alicia
The basolateral amygdala in reward learning and addiction
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews,
2015;
.
Wassum Kate M, Phillips Paul E M
Probing the neurochemical correlates of motivation and decision
making
ACS chemical neuroscience,
2015; 6(1):
11-3.
Ostlund Sean B, LeBlanc Kimberly H, Kosheleff Alisa R, Wassum Kate M, Maidment Nigel T
Phasic mesolimbic dopamine signaling encodes the facilitation of
incentive motivation produced by repeated cocaine exposure
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology,
2014; 39(10):
2441-9.
Tolosa Vanessa M, Wassum Kate M, Maidment Nigel T, Monbouquette Harold G
Electrochemically deposited iridium oxide reference electrode
integrated with an electroenzymatic glutamate sensor on a
multi-electrode array microprobe
Biosensors & bioelectronics,
2013; 42(8):
256-60.
Wassum Kate M, Ostlund Sean B, Loewinger Gabriel C, Maidment Nigel T
Phasic mesolimbic dopamine release tracks reward seeking during
expression of Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
Biological psychiatry,
2013; 73(8):
747-55.
Wassum Kate M, Ostlund Sean B, Maidment Nigel T
Phasic mesolimbic dopamine signaling precedes and predicts performance
of a self-initiated action sequence task
Biological psychiatry,
2012; 71(10):
846-54.
Wassum Kate M, Tolosa Vanessa M, Tseng Tina C, Balleine Bernard W, Monbouquette Harold G, Maidment Nigel T
Transient extracellular glutamate events in the basolateral amygdala
track reward-seeking actions
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2012; 32(8):
2734-46.
Wassum Kate M, Ostlund Sean B, Balleine Bernard W, Maidment Nigel T
Differential dependence of Pavlovian incentive motivation and
instrumental incentive learning processes on dopamine signaling
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.),
2011; 18(7):
475-83.
Wassum Kate M, Cely Ingrid C, Balleine Bernard W, Maidment Nigel T
Micro-opioid receptor activation in the basolateral amygdala mediates
the learning of increases but not decreases in the incentive value of
a food reward
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2011; 31(5):
1591-9.
Ostlund Sean B, Wassum Kate M, Murphy Niall P, Balleine Bernard W, Maidment Nigel T
Extracellular dopamine levels in striatal subregions track shifts in
motivation and response cost during instrumental conditioning
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2011; 31(1):
200-7.
Wassum KM, Cely IC, Ostlund SB, Maidment NT, Balleine BW.
Disruption of endogenous opioid activity during instrumental learning enhances habit acquisition,
Neuroscience,
2009; 163(3):
770-80.
Wassum KM, Ostlund SB, Maidment NT, Balleine BW.
Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events,
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,
2009; 106(30):
12512-7.
Wassum Kate M, Evans Christopher J
International Narcotics Research Conference - 39th Annual Meeting
IDrugs : the investigational drugs journal,
2008; 11(9):
646-9.
Wassum Kate M, Tolosa Vanessa M, Wang Jianjun, Walker Eric, Monbouquette Harold G, Maidment Nigel T
Silicon Wafer-Based Platinum Microelectrode Array Biosensor for Near
Real-Time Measurement of Glutamate in Vivo
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland),
2008; 8(8):
5023-5036.
Wightman R Mark, Heien Michael L A V, Wassum Kate M, Sombers Leslie A, Aragona Brandon J, Khan Amina S, Ariansen Jennifer L, Cheer Joseph F, Phillips Paul E M, Carelli Regina M
Dopamine release is heterogeneous within microenvironments of the rat
nucleus accumbens
The European journal of neuroscience,
2007; 26(7):
2046-54.
Cheer Joseph F, Wassum Kate M, Sombers Leslie A, Heien Michael L A V, Ariansen Jennifer L, Aragona Brandon J, Phillips Paul E M, Wightman R Mark
Phasic dopamine release evoked by abused substances requires
cannabinoid receptor activation
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2007; 27(4):
791-5.
Cheer Joseph F, Wassum Kate M, Wightman R Mark
Cannabinoid modulation of electrically evoked pH and oxygen transients
in the nucleus accumbens of awake rats
Journal of neurochemistry,
2006; 97(4):
1145-54.
Heien Michael L A V, Khan Amina S, Ariansen Jennifer L, Cheer Joseph F, Phillips Paul E M, Wassum Kate M, Wightman R Mark
Real-time measurement of dopamine fluctuations after cocaine in the
brain of behaving rats
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
2005; 102(29):
10023-8.
Cheer Joseph F, Wassum Kate M, Heien Michael L A V, Phillips Paul E M, Wightman R Mark
Cannabinoids enhance subsecond dopamine release in the nucleus
accumbens of awake rats
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2004; 24(18):
4393-400.