Lucy L. Brown, Ph.D.

Functional Neuroanatomy of the Basal Ganglia

Lawhorn C, Smith DM, Brown LL. Partial ablation of mu-opioid receptor rich striosomes produces deficits on a motor-skill learning task, Neuroscience 163:109-19, 2009

Breuer, O., Lawhorn, C., Miller, T., Smith, D.M., Brown, L.L.  Functional architecture of the mammalian striatum: Mouse vascular and striosome organization and their anatomic relationships. Neuroscience Letters, 385:198-203, 2005.

Brown, L.L., Makman, M.H., Wolfson, L.I., Dvorkin, B., Warner, C. and Katzman, R. A Direct Role of Dopamine in the Rat Subthalamic Nucleus and an Adjacent Intra peduncular Area. Science, 206:1416 1418, 1979.

Brown, L.L. Somatotopic Organization in Rat Striatum: Evidence for a Combinational Map, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 89:7403-7407, 1992.

Sharp, F.R., Rando, T.A., Greenberg, S.A., Brown, L.L., Sagar, S.M. Pseudochoreoathetosis: Movements Associated with Loss of Proprioception, Archives of Neurology, 51:1103-1109, 1994.

Brown, L.L., Hand, P.J., Divac, I. The Representation of a single vibrissa in the rat neostriatum: peaks of metabolism reveal a distributed functional module, Neuroscience, 75:717-728, 1996.

Brown, L.L., Smith, D.M., Goldbloom, L. Organizing principles for cortical integration in the rat neostriatum: the body surface map is an ordered lattice of curved laminae and radial points, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 392 (4): 468-488, 1998.

Brown, L.L., Feldman, S.M., Smith, D.M., Cavanaugh, J.R., Ackermann, R.F. and Graybiel, A.M.: Differential metabolic activity in the striosome and matrix compartments of the rat striatum during natural behaviors, Journal of Neuroscience, 22(1):305-314, 2002.

 

Romantic Love Studies

 

Fisher H, Aron A, Brown LL. Romantic love: an fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice, Journal of Comparative Neurology 5;493(1):58-62, 2005.

Aron, A. Fisher, H.E., Mashek, D.J., Strong, G. Li. H-f., Brown, L.L.  Reward, Motivation and Emotion Systems Associated with Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love.  Journal of Neurophysiology 94:327-37, 2005.

Fisher HE, Aron A, Brown LL. Romantic Love: a mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences. Dec 29;361(1476):2173-86, 2006. Review.

Helen E. Fisher, Lucy L. Brown, Arthur Aron, Greg Strong, Debra Mashek. Reward, Addiction, and Emotional Regulation Systems associated with Rejection in Love. Journal of Neurophysiology 104:51-60, 2010.

Frascella, J, Potenza MN, Brown LL, Childress AR. Shared brain vulnerabilities open the way for nonsubstance addictions: carving addiction at a new joint? Annals of the NY Acacemy of Sciences 1187:294-315, 2010

Xiaomeng Xu, Arthur Aron, Lucy Brown, Guikang Cao, Tingyong Feng, Xuchu Weng. Reward and Motivation Systems: A Brain Mapping Study of Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love in Chinese Participants. Human Brain Mapping Feb;32(2):249-57, 2011.

Acevedo, B., Aron, A., Fisher, H., Brown, LL. Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Feb;7(2):145-59, 2012.

Acevedo B, Aron A, Fisher HE, Brown LL. Neural correlates of marital satisfaction and well-being: reward, empathy and affect. Clinical Neuropsychiatry 9:20-31, 2012.