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Job Description: Research Interests: Ethanol and its effect on the CRF system and the neural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The ultimate goal is to find a substance suitable for the treatment of alcohol dependence.


Publications:

Simms, J.A., Steensland, P., Medina, B., Abernathy, K., Chandler, L.J., Wise, R.A., and Bartlett, S.E. (2008) Intermittent-Access to 20% Ethanol induces high ethanol consumption in Long-Evans and Wistar rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 32:1-8.
Steensland, P., Simms, J.A., Holgate, J., Richards, J.K., and Bartlett, S.E. (2007) Varenicline, an a4b2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor partial agonist, selectively decreases ethanol consumption and seeking. PNAS published July 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705368104.

Steensland P, Blakely G, Nyberg F, Fahlke C, Pohorecky LA. Anabolic androgenic steroid affects social aggression and fear-related behaviors in male pair-housed rats. Horm Behav. 2005 Aug;48(2):216-24.
PMID: 15878576 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Steensland P, Hallberg M, Kindlundh A, Fahlke C, Nyberg F. Amphetamine-induced aggression is enhanced in rats pre-treated with the anabolic androgenic steroid nandrolone decanoate. Steroids. 2005 Mar;70(3):199-204.
PMID: 15763599 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Johansson-Steensland P, Nyberg F, Chahl L.  The anabolic androgenic steroid, nandrolone decanoate, increases the density of Fos-like immunoreactive neurons in limbic regions of guinea-pig brain. Eur J Neurosci. 2002 Feb;15(3):539-44.
PMID: 11876781 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Johansson P, Lindqvist A, Nyberg F, Fahlke C. Anabolic androgenic steroids affects alcohol intake, defensive behaviors and brain opioid peptides in the rat. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2000 Oct;67(2):271-9.
PMID: 11124391 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Johansson P, Hallberg M, Kindlundh A, Nyberg F. The effect on opioid peptides in the rat brain, after chronic treatment with the anabolic androgenic steroid, nandrolone decanoate. Brain Res Bull. 2000 Mar 15;51(5):413-8.
PMID: 10715562 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Johansson P, Ray A, Zhou Q, Huang W, Karlsson K, Nyberg F.  Anabolic androgenic steroids increase beta-endorphin levels in the ventral tegmental area in the male rat brain. Neurosci Res. 1997 Feb;27(2):185-9.
PMID: 9100262 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Previous Employment:
Uppsala Universitet - Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Center of Alcohol Studies.