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Journal articles
2024, 'The Murray-Darling Medical Schools Network Research Collaboration: protocol for a longitudinal, multi-university program of work to explore the effect of rurally based medical school programs in the Murray-Darling region', Rural and Remote Health, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.22605/RRH8306
,2023, 'Start small and let it build; a mixed-method evaluation of a school-based physical activity program, Kilometre Club', BMC Public Health, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14927-7
,2020, 'An experimental evaluation of a concept to improve conventional aortic prostheses', Journal of Biomechanics, 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110010
,2016, 'Early detection of cryptic memory and glucose uptake deficits in pre-pathological APP mice', Nature Communications, 7, pp. 11761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11761
,2012, 'Angiotensin II-inhibition: effect on Alzheimer’s pathology in the aged triple transgenic mouse', American Journal of Translational Research, 4, pp. 151 - 164, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353528/
,2011, 'Mechanism of acute tryptophan depletion: Is it only serotonin', Molecular Psychiatry, 16, pp. 695 - 713, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2011.9
,2011, 'Angiotensin II-inhibiting drugs have no effect on intraneuronal Aβ or oligomeric Aβ levels in a triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease', American Journal of Translational Research, 3, pp. 197 - 208, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056565/
,2011, 'Cerebral metabolic responses to 5-HT
2010, 'Elevated BDNF protein level in cortex but not in hippocampus of MDMA-treated Dark Agouti rats: A potential link to the long-term recovery of serotonergic axons', Neuroscience Letters, 478, pp. 56 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.061
,2010, 'Acute tryptophan depletion potentiates 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine- induced cerebrovascular hyperperfusion in adult male wistar rats', Journal of Neuroscience Research, 88, pp. 1557 - 1568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnr.22308
,2010, 'Acute SSRI-induced anxiogenic and brain metabolic effects are attenuated 6 months after initial MDMA-induced depletion', Behavioural Brain Research, 207, pp. 280 - 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.011
,2010, 'Acute tryptophan depletion in C57BL/6 mice does not induce central serotonin reduction or affective behavioural changes', Neurochemistry International, 56, pp. 21 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuint.2009.08.010
,2009, 'Acute tryptophan depletion in rats alters the relationship between cerebral blood flow and glucose metabolism independent of central serotonin', Neuroscience, 163, pp. 683 - 694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.06.063
,2009, 'Sex influences the effect of a lifelong increase in serotonin transporter function on cerebral metabolism', Journal of Neuroscience Research, 87, pp. 2375 - 2385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnr.22062
,2009, 'Phosphodiesterase inhibitors enhance object memory independent of cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization in rats', Neuropsychopharmacology, 34, pp. 1914 - 1925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.24
,2008, 'Novel analysis for improved validity in semi-quantitative 2-deoxyglucose autoradiographic imaging', Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 175, pp. 25 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.07.020
,2006, 'Persistent cerebrovascular effects of MDMA and acute responses to the drug', European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, pp. 509 - 519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04923.x
,2006, 'Partial lesion of the serotonergic system by a single dose of MDMA results in behavioural disinhibition and enhances acute MDMA-induced social behaviour on the social interaction test', Neuropharmacology, 50, pp. 884 - 896, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2005.12.010
,2006, 'Acute and long-term effects of a single dose of MDMA on aggression in Dark Agouti rats', International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 9, pp. 63 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S146114570500581X
,2005, 'Local cerebral metabolic response to 8-OH-DPAT in Dark Agouti rats is altered by prior exposure to 3, 4, -methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)', Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 25, pp. S582 - S582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9591524.0582
,2004, 'Acute methylenedioxymethamphetamine administration: effects on local cerebral blood flow and glucose utilisation in the Dark Agouti rat.', Psychopharmacology (Berl), 173, pp. 287 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-004-1784-z
,2004, 'Effects of a single dose of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine on circadian patterns, motor activity and sleep in drug-naive rats and rats previously exposed to MDMA.', Psychopharmacology (Berl), 173, pp. 296 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-004-1787-9
,2002, 'Functional consequences of perinatal exposure to 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine in rat brain.', Br J Pharmacol, 137, pp. 963 - 970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjp.0704961
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