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
- Cocaine
- Reward
- Saccharin
- Cues
- Sucrose
- Self Administration
- Heroin
- Morphine
- Lithium Chloride
- Street Drugs
- Parabrachial Nucleus
Recent Publications
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
2016
Grigson, PS 2016, 'Addiction: A preclinical and clinical analysis', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 123, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2016.03.008
Imperio, CG, McFalls, AJ, Colechio, EM, Masser, DR, Vrana, KE, Grigson, PS & Freeman, WM 2016, 'Assessment of individual differences in the rat nucleus accumbens transcriptome following taste-heroin extended access', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 123, pp. 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.12.005
Nyland, JE, Alexander, DN & Grigson, PS 2016, 'Drug-Motivated behavior in rats with lesions of the thalamic orosensory area', Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 130, no. 1, pp. 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000114
Jenney, CB, Petko, J, Ebersole, B, Njatcha, CVN, Uzamere, TO, Alexander, DN, Grigson, PS & Levenson, R 2016, 'Early avoidance of a heroin-paired taste-cue and subsequent addiction-like behavior in rats', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 123, pp. 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.10.008
Jenney, CB, Alexander, DN, Jones, BC, Unger, EL & Grigson, PS 2016, 'Preweaning iron deficiency increases non-contingent responding during cocaine self-administration in rats', Physiology and Behavior, vol. 167, pp. 282-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.09.007
Coffey, AA, Guan, Z, Grigson, PS & Fang, J 2016, 'Reversal of the sleep–wake cycle by heroin self-administration in rats', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 123, pp. 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.09.008
McFalls, AJ, Imperio, CG, Bixler, G, Freeman, WM, Grigson, PS & Vrana, KE 2016, 'Reward devaluation and heroin escalation is associated with differential expression of CRF signaling genes', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 123, pp. 81-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.11.009
Twining, RC, Freet, CS, Wheeler, RA, Reich, CG, Tompers, DA, Wolpert, SE & Grigson, PS 2016, 'The role of dose and restriction state on morphine-, cocaine-, and LiCl-induced suppression of saccharin intake: A comprehensive analysis', Physiology and Behavior, vol. 161, pp. 104-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.03.037
Venkiteswaran, K, Alexander, DN, Puhl, MD, Rao, A, Piquet, AL, Nyland, JE, Subramanian, MP, Iyer, P, Boisvert, MM, Handly, E, Subramanian, T & Grigson, PS 2016, 'Transplantation of human retinal pigment epithelial cells in the nucleus accumbens of cocaine self-administering rats provides protection from seeking', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 123, pp. 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.11.008