Hannah Carlson
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology and Neuroscience
- Lillard Science Center 156
- 847-735-6111
- hcarlson@lakeforest.edu
Specialization
Behavioral Neuroscience
Behavioral Pharmacology
Neurobiology
Neuroanatomy
Research Interests
Substance use and addiction
Translational (rodent) models
Ingestive behavior
Education
PhD Wake Forest School of Medicine
MA Wake Forest University
BS/BA University of Georgia
Courses Taught
NEUR 302/PSYC370 Neuroscience and Behavior
PSYC 320 Learning
PSYC 465 Drugs, Substance Use, and Addiction
Selected Publications
* Indicates undergraduate author
Carlson, H.N., *Spera, A.G., Smith, M.A. (in review) Effects of xylazine on naloxone-precipitated fentanyl withdrawal in male and female rats.
Smith, M. A., Armas, S. P., Camp, J. D., & Carlson, H. N. (2024). The positive reinforcing effects of cocaine and opposite-sex social contact: roles of biological sex and estrus. Psychopharmacology, 10.1007/s00213-024-06648-z. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-024-06648-z
Smith, M. A., Biancorosso, S. L., Camp, J. D., Hailu, S. H., *Johansen, A. N., *Morris, M. H., & Carlson, H. N. (2023). "Tranq-dope" overdose and mortality: lethality induced by fentanyl and xylazine. Frontiers in pharmacology, 14, 1280289. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2023.1280289
Carlson, H. N., & Weiner, J. L. (2023). The maladaptive alcohol self-administration task: An adapted novel model of alcohol seeking with negative consequences. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 119(3), 488–500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.834
Carlson, H. N., *Christensen, B. A., & Pratt, W. E. (2022). Stimulation of mu opioid, but not GABAergic, receptors of the lateral habenula alters free feeding in rats. Neuroscience letters, 771, 136417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136417
Carlson, H. N., & Weiner, J. L. (2021). The neural, behavioral, and epidemiological underpinnings of comorbid alcohol use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. International review of neurobiology, 157, 69–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irn.2020.09.006
Carlson, H. N., *Murphy, C., & Pratt, W. E. (2021). Shifting motivational states: The effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine and opioid receptor activation on a modified effort-based choice task. Behavioural brain research, 399, 112999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112999
Selected Awards and Honors
2023 Sundberg Award, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
2023 Award for Outstanding Dissertation, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience
Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awardee, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (F31 AA029292)
Graduate Research Fellowship (2017), Wake Forest University Center for Molecular Signaling
Phi Beta Kappa