Researcher Profile
Researcher Profile
Patricia "Sue" Grigson-Kennedy, MS, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Research Interests
Dr. Sue Grigson’s research focuses on substance abuse and addiction. She has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for more than 28 years and is the recipient of an NIH MERIT award, which recognizes the top tier of research funded by the NIH.
She is the inaugural director of Penn State Addiction Center for Translation.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Reward
- Cocaine
- Saccharin
- Sucrose
- Cues
- Self Administration
- Morphine
- Heroin
- Lithium Chloride
- Street Drugs
- Parabrachial Nucleus
Recent Publications
2021
Douton, JE, Norgren, R & Grigson, PS 2021, 'Effects of a glucagon-like peptide-1 analog on appetitive and consummatory behavior for rewarding and aversive gustatory stimuli in rats', Physiology and Behavior, vol. 229, 113279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113279
2020
McKendrick, G, Garrett, H, Tanniru, S, Ballard, S, Sun, D, Silberman, Y, Grigson, PS & Graziane, NM 2020, 'A novel method to study reward-context associations and drug-seeking behaviors', Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 343, 108857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108857
2019
Donaldson, K, Buchanich, JM, Grigson, PS, Deneke, E, Vrana, KE, Sacks, DB, Kuehn, GJ, Cardamone, D, Pesce, A, Smiley, S, Nickley, J, Krock, K, Thomas, R, Wilkerson, ML, Farag, HA, Challa, SR, Tice, AM, Wolk, DM, Prichard, J, Grant, ML, Regmi, S, Kerbacher, B, Quinton, LE, Tice, AM, Olson, J, Haynes, A, Yu, E, McCully, KS, Assi, J, Wong, M, Zarrin-Khameh, N, Nifong, TP, Hawker, CD, Carlton, GT, Rivera, JM, Foulis, PR, Zuraw, A, Morlote, D, Peker, D, Reddy, V, Harada, S, Crutchfield, C, Zander, D, Barbhuiya, MA, Pederson, EC, Straub, ML, Scott, SC, Neibauer, TL, Salter, WF, Creer, MH, Zhu, Y, Bornhorst, JA, Theobald, JP, Algeciras-Schimnich, A, Cao, L, Knox, J, Hardy, R, Texas, HJ, McGuire, MF, Hunter, RL, Brown, RE, Hicks, J, Cai, Z, Brown, RE, Ali, Y, Cheng, KC, Katz, SR, Ding, Y, Vanselow, DJ, Yakovlev, MA, Lin, AY, Clark, DP, Vargas, P, Xin, X, Copper, JE, Canfield, VA, Ang, KC, Wang, Y, Xiao, X, De Carlo, F, van Rossum, DB, La Rivière, PJ, Newell, J, Hossler, C, Roche, M, Warrick, J, Phaeton, R, Kesterson, J, Myers, C, Barrios, R, Mintz, P, Robyak, K, Hamilton, C, McGhee, P, Pederson, C, Straub, M, Scott, S, Neibauer, T, Salter, W, Robyak, K, Singh, N, Morlote, D, Vnencak-Jones, C, Yemelyanova, A, Harada, S, Shah, M, Moghadamtousi, SZ, Lan, C, Duose, D, Hu, P, Esquenazi, Y, Luthra, R, Ballester, LY, Koenig, AN, Liu, CG, Zhang, J, Kalia, A, Al-Habib, A, Van Arsdall, M, Dhingra, S, Patel, K & Tatevian, N 2019, 'Abstracts of Presentations at the Association of Clinical Scientists 139th Meeting Hershey, PA, May 15-18, 2019', Annals of clinical and laboratory science, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 403-416.
2018
Imperio, CG, McFalls, AJ, Hadad, N, Blanco-Berdugo, L, Masser, DR, Colechio, EM, Coffey, AA, Bixler, GV, Stanford, DR, Vrana, KE, Grigson, PS & Freeman, WM 2018, 'Exposure to environmental enrichment attenuates addiction-like behavior and alters molecular effects of heroin self-administration in rats', Neuropharmacology, vol. 139, pp. 26-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.06.037
Coffey, AA, Fang, J & Grigson, PS 2018, 'Heroin self-administration as a function of time of day in rats', Psychopharmacology, vol. 235, no. 10, pp. 3005-3015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4990-9
2017
Jenney, CB, Dasalla, J & Grigson, PS 2018, 'Female rats exhibit less avoidance than male rats of a cocaine-, but not a morphine-paired, saccharin cue', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 138, pp. 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2017.09.001
Freet, CS, Alexander, DN, Imperio, CG, Ruiz-Velasco, V & Grigson, PS 2018, 'Heroin-induced suppression of saccharin intake in OPRM1 A118G mice', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 138, pp. 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2017.09.008