Sue Grigson

Professor of Neural and Behavioral Science

Sue Grigson

Research Summary

Neural basis of reward comparison.

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Ecological momentary assessment and cue-elicited drug craving as primary endpoints: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial testing the efficacy of a GLP-1 receptor agonist in opioid use disorder

Christopher Freet, Brianna Evans, Timothy R. Brick, Erin Deneke, Emily J. Wasserman, Sarah M. Ballard, Dean M. Stankoski, Lan Kong, Nazia Raja-Khan, Jennifer E. Nyland, Amy Arnold, Venkatesh Basappa Krishnamurthy, Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, H. Harrington Cleveland, Adam D. Scioli, Amanda Molchanow, Amy E. Messner, Hasan Ayaz, Patricia S. Grigson, Scott C. Bunce, 2024, Addiction science & clinical practice

Addiction III: From mouse to man

Patricia J. McLaughlin, Elizabeth A. West, Patricia Sue Grigson, Andrea L. Hobkirk, 2023, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 22-26

Sleep is increased by liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, in rats

Jidong Fang, Patti Miller, Patricia S. Grigson, 2023, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 142-155

Greater avoidance of a saccharin cue paired with passive delivery of heroin is associated with a select increase in expression of CRFR2 and CRFbp in the hippocampus in rats

Ashley J. McFalls, Christopher Jenney, Rachel S. Stanford, Emma Woodward, Andras Hajnal, Patricia S. Grigson, Kent E. Vrana, 2022, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 48-60

An RNA-seq study of the mPFC of rats with different addiction phenotypes

Ashley J. McFalls, Ceasar G. Imperio, Emma Woodward, Claire Krikorian, Brooke Stoltsfus, Benjamin Wronowski, Patricia S. Grigson, Willard M. Freeman, Kent E. Vrana, 2022, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 107-120

Acute treatment with the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, liraglutide, reduces cue- and drug-induced fentanyl seeking in rats

Luke A. Urbanik, Nikhil K. Acharya, Patricia S. Grigson, 2022, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 155-162

Dose titration with the glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist, liraglutide, reduces cue- and drug-induced heroin seeking in high drug-taking rats

Brianna Evans, Brooke Stoltzfus, Nikhail Acharya, Jennifer E. Nyland, Amy Arnold, Christopher S. Freet, Scott C. Bunce, Patricia S. Grigson, 2022, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 163-173

Acute glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist liraglutide prevents cue-, stress-, and drug-induced heroin-seeking in rats

Joaquin E. Douton, Nikhil K. Acharya, Brooke Stoltzfus, Dongxiao Sun, Patricia S. Grigson, Jennifer E. Nyland, 2022, Behavioural Pharmacology on p. 364-378

Pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of random nicotine delivery on cigarettes per day and smoke exposure

Jessica M. Yingst, Courtney Lester, Craig Livelsberger, Sophia Allen, Erin Hammett, Susan Veldheer, Breianna Hummer, Candace Bordner, Junjia Zhu, Christopher N. Sciamanna, Trushin, N Trushin, Hock Tan, Stephen J. Wilson, Robert Twining, Jonathan Foulds, Patricia Sue Grigson, 2022, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 30-37

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, liraglutide, reduces heroin self-administration and drug-induced reinstatement of heroin-seeking behaviour in rats

Joaquin E. Douton, Nelli Horvath, Sara Mills-Huffnagle, Jennifer E. Nyland, Andras Hajnal, Patricia S. Grigson, 2022, Addiction Biology

Most-Cited Papers

Food reward system: Current perspectives and future research needs

Miguel Alonso-Alonso, Stephen C. Woods, Marcia Pelchat, Patricia Sue Grigson, Eric Stice, Sadaf Farooqi, Chor San Khoo, Richard D. Mattes, Gary K. Beauchamp, 2015, Nutrition Reviews on p. 296-307

Diabetes, Drug Treatment, and Mortality in COVID-19: A Multinational Retrospective Cohort Study

Jennifer Nyland, N Raja-Khan, K Bettermann, P Haouzi, J Kraschnewski, L Parent, P Grigson, 2021, Diabetes on p. 2903-2916

Weak ventral striatal responses to monetary outcomes predict an unwillingness to resist cigarette smoking

Stephen J. Wilson, Mauricio R. Delgado, Sherry A. McKee, Patricia S. Grigson, R. Ross MacLean, Travis T. Nichols, Shannon L. Henry, 2014, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 1196-1207

Exposure to environmental enrichment attenuates addiction-like behavior and alters molecular effects of heroin self-administration in rats

Caesar G. Imperio, Ashley J. McFalls, Niran Hadad, Laura Blanco-Berdugo, Dustin R. Masser, Elizabeth M. Colechio, Alissa A. Coffey, Georgina V. Bixler, David R. Stanford, Kent E. Vrana, Patricia S. Grigson, Willard M. Freeman, 2018, Neuropharmacology on p. 26-40

H63D mutation in hemochromatosis alters cholesterol metabolism and induces memory impairment

Fatima Ali-Rahmani, Patricia "Sue" Grigson-Kennedy, Sang Lee, Elizabeth Neely, James Connor, Cara-Lynne Schengrund, 2014, Neurobiology of Aging on p. 1511.e1-1511.e12

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, exendin-4, reduces reinstatement of heroin-seeking behavior in rats

Joaquin E. Douton, Corinne Augusto, Brooke Stoltzfus, Nurgul Carkaci-Salli, Kent E. Vrana, Patricia S. Grigson, 2021, Behavioural Pharmacology on p. 265-277

Assessment of individual differences in the rat nucleus accumbens transcriptome following taste-heroin extended access

Caesar G. Imperio, Ashley J. McFalls, Elizabeth M. Colechio, Dustin R. Masser, Kent E. Vrana, Patricia S. Grigson, Willard M. Freeman, 2016, Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques on p. 71-80

Greater avoidance of a heroin-paired taste cue is associated with greater escalation of heroin self-administration in rats

Caesar G. Imperio, Patricia S. Grigson, 2015, Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 380-388

Once is too much: Conditioned aversion develops immediately and predicts future cocaine self-administration behavior in rats

Elizabeth M. Colechio, Caesar G. Imperio, Patricia S. Grigson, 2014, Behavioral Neuroscience on p. 207-216

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, liraglutide, reduces heroin self-administration and drug-induced reinstatement of heroin-seeking behaviour in rats

Joaquin E. Douton, Nelli Horvath, Sara Mills-Huffnagle, Jennifer E. Nyland, Andras Hajnal, Patricia S. Grigson, 2022, Addiction Biology