Helen Marie Kamens, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Helen Marie Kamens, PhD
Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Research Interests
- Ethanol
- Nicotinic Receptors
- Nicotine
- Genes
- Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Inbred C57BL Mouse
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Anxiety
- Gene Expression
- Methamphetamine
- Alcohols
- Inbred DBA Mouse
Recent Publications
2022
Kamens, HM, Flarend, G, Wickenheisser, A, Horton, WJ & Cavigelli, SA 2022, 'The Effect of Stress on Opioid Addiction-Related Behaviors: A Review of Preclinical Literature', Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000588
2021
Kamens, HM, Miller, CN, Caulfield, JI, Zeid, D, Horton, WJ, Silva, CP, Sebastian, A, Albert, I, Gould, TJ, Fishbein, D, Grigson, PS & Cavigelli, SA 2021, 'Adolescent Stress Reduces Adult Morphine-Induced Behavioral Sensitization in C57BL/6J Mice', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 15, 678102. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.678102
Caulfield, JI, Ching, AM, Cover, EM, August, A, Craig, T, Kamens, HM & Cavigelli, SA 2021, 'Correction to: Inhaled corticosteroids as treatment for adolescent asthma: effects on adult anxiety-related outcomes in a murine model (Psychopharmacology, (2021), 238, 1, (165-179), 10.1007/s00213-020-05666-x)', Psychopharmacology, vol. 238, no. 4, pp. 1225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-021-05778-y
Mooney-Leber, SM, Caruso, MJ, Gould, TJ, Cavigelli, SA & Kamens, HM 2022, 'The impact of adolescent stress on nicotine use and affective disorders in rodent models', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 55, no. 9-10, pp. 2196-2215. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15421
2020
Silva, CP & Kamens, HM 2021, 'Cigarette smoke-induced alterations in blood: A review of research on DNA methylation and gene expression.', Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 116-135. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000382
Caulfield, JI, Ching, AM, Cover, EM, August, A, Craig, T, Kamens, HM & Cavigelli, SA 2021, 'Inhaled corticosteroids as treatment for adolescent asthma: effects on adult anxiety-related outcomes in a murine model', Psychopharmacology, vol. 238, no. 1, pp. 165-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05666-x
Kamens, HM, Silva, CP, Nye, RT, Miller, CN, Singh, N, Sipko, J, Trushin, N, Sun, D, Branstetter, SA, Muscat, JE, Richie, JP & Foulds, J 2020, 'Pharmacokinetic Profile of Spectrum Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes', Nicotine and Tobacco Research, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 273-279. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntz045
Miller, CN & Kamens, HM 2020, 'The role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in alcohol-related behaviors', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 163, pp. 135-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2020.07.017
2019
Miller, CN, Caruso, MJ & Kamens, HM 2019, 'Corrigendum to “Early-adolescent male C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice display reduced sensitivity to acute nicotine administration” [Neurosci. Lett. 690 (2019) 151–157](S0304394018306906)(10.1016/j.neulet.2018.10.014)', Neuroscience letters, vol. 707, 134307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134307
Miller, CN, Caruso, MJ & Kamens, HM 2019, 'Early-adolescent male C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice display reduced sensitivity to acute nicotine administration', Neuroscience letters, vol. 690, pp. 151-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.10.014
Miller, CN & Kamens, HM 2020, 'Reduced expression of ethanol sensitization by α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in DBA/2J mice', Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 348-354. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000324
Miller, CN, Ruggery, C & Kamens, HM 2019, 'The α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist 18-Methoxycoronaridine decreases binge-like ethanol consumption in adult C57BL/6J mice', Alcohol, vol. 79, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2018.11.006