Craig Schiltz
| Years in MSTP | 2001-2008 |
| PhD | Neuroscience |
| Mentors | Ann Kelley and Charles Landry |
| Thesis | The Transcriptional Response of the Forebrain to Cues Associated with Rewards that Have Abuse Potential |
| Residency |
Psychiatry, University of California-San Francisco |
Publications
Schiltz CA, Bremer QZ, Landry CF, Kelley AE. 2007. Food-associated cues alter forebrain functional connectivity as assessed with immediate early gene and proenkephalin expression. BMC Biol 5:16. PMCID: 1868707
Schiltz CA, Kelley AE, Landry CF. 2007. Acute stress and nicotine cues interact to unveil locomotor arousal and activity-dependent gene expression in the prefrontal cortex. Biol Psychiatry 61:127-35. PMCID: 1698504
Hernandez PJ, Schiltz CA, Kelley AE. 2006. Dynamic shifts in corticostriatal expression patterns of the immediate early genes Homer 1a and Zif268 during early and late phases of instrumental training. Learn Mem 13:599-608. PMCID: 1783614
Schiltz CA. 2006. Habitual responding and the dorsal striatum (commentary). J Neurosci 26:1891-2.
Kelley AE, Schiltz CA, Landry CF. 2005. Neural systems recruited by drug- and food-related cues: studies of gene activation in corticolimbic regions. Physiol Behav 86:11-4.
Rouhana L, Wang L, Buter N, Kwak JE, Schiltz CA, Gonzalez T, Kelley AE, Landry CF, Wickens M. 2005. Vertebrate GLD2 poly(A) polymerases in the germline and the brain. RNA 11:1117-30.
Schiltz CA, Kelley AE, Landry CF. 2005. Contextual cues associated with nicotine administration increase arc mRNA expression in corticolimbic areas of the rat brain. Eur J Neurosci 21:1703-11. PMCID: 1388273
Kelley AE, Schiltz CA. 2004. Accessories to addiction: G protein regulators play a key role in cocaine seeking and neuroplasticity. Neuron 42:181-3.
Schroeder BE, Schiltz CA, Kelley AE. 2003. Neural activation profile elicited by cues associated with the anxiogenic drug yohimbine differs from that observed for reward-paired cues. Neuropsychopharmacology 28:14-21.