Publications

My peer-reviewed work. The complete list is also on PubMed.

2025

• Andrus MD, Vu T, Juarez B, Walker DM. Adolescent isolation disrupts medial amygdala and ventral tegmental area maturation and sex-specifically dysregulates transcriptional responses to cocaine and stress.Neuropharmacology 279, 110629. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110629 · PubMed · free full text1¹First-author paper. Adolescent social isolation breaks the cocaine-responsive transcriptional concordance between the medial amygdala and the ventral tegmental area, sex-specifically, without changing their connectivity or dopamine-neuron firing.
• Williams BE, Martin SA, Hoffman KA, Andrus MD, Dellabough-Gormley E, Buchheit BM. “It’s within your own power”: shared decision-making to support transitions to buprenorphine.Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 20(1), 22. doi:10.1186/s13722-025-00555-0 · PubMed · free full text2²Qualitative study of patients using illicitly manufactured fentanyl who chose among three buprenorphine-initiation methods with their clinicians.

2021

• Bendersky CJ, Milian AA, Andrus MD, De La Torre U, Walker DM. Long-term impacts of post-weaning social isolation on nucleus accumbens function.Frontiers in Psychiatry 12, 745406. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.745406 · PubMed · free full text3³Review of what adolescent isolation does to the nucleus accumbens, from molecules to behavior, with a first mining of public data for isolation-induced transcriptional profiles in D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons.