Darragh Devine

Muehlmann, A.M. and Devine, D.P. (submitted). The role of neurotensin in self-injurious behavior, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.

Devine, D.P. (in press). Animal models of self-injurious behaviour: an overview and update, Psychiatric Disorders, Methods in Molecular Biology

Devine, D.P. (in press). New insights into the pemoline model of self-injurious behaviour, Psychiatric Disorders

Yuan, X. and Devine, D.P. (2016). The role of anxiety in vulnerability for self-injurious behavior: studies in a rodent model, Behavioural Brain Research 311: 201-209.  PMID:27217100

Marcinkiewcz, C.A. and Devine, D.P. (2015). Modulation of OCT3 gene expression by stress, and antidepressant-like activity of decynium-22 in Wistar-Kyoto Rats, Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 131: 33-41.  PMID:25597272

Devine, D.P. (2014). Self-injurious behavior in autistic children: a neurodevelopmental theory of social and environmental isolation, Psychopharmacology, 231: 979-997.  PMID:24057764

** This paper is an invited contribution in a special issue on Autism Spectrum Disorders

Richardson, C.M.E., Rice, K.G., and Devine, D.P. (2014). Perfectionism, emotion regulation, and the physiological stress response, Journal of Counseling Psychology 61: 110-118.  PMID:240040777

Reynolds, S., Urruela. M., and Devine, D.P. (2013). Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Repetitive Behaviors in the BTBR T+tf/J Mouse Model of Autism, Autism Research, 6: 337-343.  PMID:23813950

Devine, D.P. and Symons, F.J. (2013). Biological vulnerability and risk for self-injury in Intellectual and Developmental Disorders, International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 44: 37-67.

** This paper is an invited contribution in a special issue on “Challenging Behavior”.

Reynolds, S., Millette, A., and Devine, D.P. (2012). Sensory and motor characterization in the post-natal valproate rat model of autism, Developmental Neuroscience, 34: 258-267.  PMID:22627078

Symons, F.J., Devine, D.P., and Oliver, C. (2012). Self-injurious behaviour in people with intellectual disability, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities Research, 56: 421-426.  PMID:22487005

Muehlmann, A.M., Kies, S.D., Turner, C.A., Wolfman, S., Lewis, M.H., and Devine, D.P. (2012). Self-injurious behavior: Limbic disregulation and stress effects in an animal model, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities Research. 56: 490- 500.  PMID:21988194

Devine, D.P. (2012). Animal models of self-injurious behaviour: an overview, Psychiatric Disorders, Methods in Molecular Biology, 829: 68-85.  PMID: 2223812

Devine, D.P. (2012). The pemoline model of self-injurious behaviour, Psychiatric Disorders, Methods in Molecular Biology, 829: 153-170.  PMID: 22231807

Muehlmann, A.M., Wilkinson, J.A., and Devine, D.P. (2011). Individual differences in vulnerability for self-injurious behavior: Studies using an animal model, Behavioural Brain Research. 217: 148-154.  PMID: 20974187

Wolfman, S. and Devine, D. P. (2011). The Effects of Chronic Social Stress on a Rodent Model of Self-Injurious Behavior, J. Undergrad .Res., 12 (3): 1-4.

McDonald, C. J., Murphy, T. K., and Devine, D. P. (2011). Relationship between cortisol concentration and tic severity in children with Tourette’s syndrome, J. Undergrad. Res., 12 (3): 1-4.

Green, M. K. and Devine, D. P. (2009). Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ and NOP receptor gene regulation after single or repeated social defeat exposure, Neuropeptides, 43: 507-514.  PMID: 19720395

Green, M. K., Devine, D. P., Vierck, C., and Yezierski, R. P. (2009). Effects of duloxetine (Cymbalta) on escape and lick/guard behaviors in rats, The Journal of Pain, 10 (S4): S24.

Marcinkiewcz, C.A., Green, M.K., Devine, D. P., Duarte, P., Vierck, C. J., and Yezierski, R. P. (2009). Social defeat stress potentiates thermal sensitivity in operant models of pain processing, Brain Research, 1251: 112-120.  PMID: 19059227

** This paper was recommended by Faculty of 1000 Medicine, March 4 2009.

Devine, D. P. and Muehlmann, A. M. (2009). Tiermodelle für selbstverletzendes Verhalten (Animal models of self-injurious behaviour), In: Selbstverletzendes Verhalten bei stressassoziierten Erkrankungen (Self-Injurious Behaviour in Stress-Associated Disorders), C. Schmahl and C. Stiglmayr (Eds.), pp 39-60, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.

Muehlmann, A.M. and Devine, D.P. (2008). Glutamate-mediated neuroplasticity in an animal model of self-injurious behaviour, Behavioural Brain Research, 189: 32-40.  PMID: 18243356

Muehlmann, A.M., Brown, B.D. and Devine, D.P. (2008). Pemoline-induced self-injurious behavior: a rodent model of pharmacotherapeutic efficacy, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 324: 214-223.  PMID: 17925479

Green, M.K., Barbieri, E.V., Brown, B.D., Chen, K.-W., and Devine, D. P. (2007). Roles of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis and of the amygdala in N/OFQ-mediated anxiety and HPA axis activation, Neuropeptides, 41:.399-410.  PMID: 17980908

King, C.D., Devine, D. P., Vierck, C. J., Mauderli, A., and Yezierski, R. P. (2007). Opioid modulation of reflex versus operant responses following stress in the rat, Neuroscience, 147: 174-182.  PMID: 17521823

Blake, B. L., Muehlmann, A. M., Egami, K., Breese, G. R., Devine, D. P., and Jinnah, H. A. (2007). Nifedipine suppresses self-injurious behaviors in animals, Developmental Neuroscience, 29: 241-250.  PMID: 17047321

Barbieri, E. V. and Devine, D. P. (2007). N/OFQ-mediated anxiety: Role of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis, J. Undergrad. Res., 8 (5).

Naccarato, A. M. and Devine, D. P. (2007). Rats exhibit behavioral despair after repeated social defeat stress, J. Undergrad. Res., 8 (5).

Wilkinson, J.A. and Devine, D. P. (2007). Self-injurious behavior: Investigating individual differences in vulnerability and sensory thresholds in an animal model, J. Undergrad. Res., 8 (5).

Devine, D. P. (2007). Foreword: Effects of stress on behaviour and biology. J. Undergrad. Res., 8 (5).

Tartar, J. L., King, M. A., and Devine, D. P. (2006). Glutamate-mediated neuroplasticity in a limbic input to the hypothalamus, Stress, 9: 13-19.  PMID: 16753929

King, C. D., Devine, D. P., Vierck, C., and Yezierski, R. P. (2005). Effects of acute stress on two different behavioral measures of thermal nociception, The Journal of Pain, 6 (S3): S17.

Hersh, C. M. and Devine, D. P. (2005). The effects of environmental challenges on nociceptin/orphanin FQ-induced anxiety, J. Undergrad. Res., 6 (7).

Kies, S. D. and Devine, D. P. (2004). Self-injurious behaviour: a comparison of caffeine and pemoline models in rats, Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior, 79: 587-598.  PMID: 15582667

Fernandez, F., Misilmeri, M. A., Felger, J. C., and Devine, D. P. (2004). Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ increases anxiety-related behaviour and circulating levels of corticosterone during neophobic tests of anxiety, Neuropsychopharmacology, 29: 59-71.  PMID: 14532912

Bauer M. C. and Devine, D. P. (2004). The effects of J113397, an orphanin/nociceptin FQ receptor antagonist, on the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, J. Undergrad. Res., 6 (2).

King, C. D., Devine, D. P., Rodgers, J., Vierck, C. J., and Yezierski, R. P. (2003). Differential effects of stress on escape and reflexive responses to noxious thermal stimuli in the rat, Brain Research, 987: 214-222.  PMID: 14499966

Kabbaj, M., Yoshida, S., Numachi, Y., Matsuoka, H., Sato, M., Devine, D. P., and Ueda, T. (2003). Methamphetamine differentially regulates hippocampal glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor mRNAs in Fisher and Lewis rats, Molecular Brain Research. 117: 8-14.  PMID: 14499476

Simpkiss, J. L. and Devine, D. P. (2003). Responses of the HPA axis after chronic variable stress: effects of novel and familiar stressors, Neuroendocrinology Letters. 24: 75-81.  PMID: 12743542

Devine, D. P., Hoversten, M. T., Ueda, Y., and Akil, H. (2003). Nociceptin/orphanin FQ content is decreased in forebrain neurones during acute stress, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 15: 69-74.  PMID: 12535171

Fernandez, F. and Devine, D. P. (2002). N/OFQ exerts anxiogenic actions in an open field, J. Undergrad. Res., 3 (10)

Devine, D. P., Watson, S. J., Jr. and Akil, H. (2001). Nociceptin/orphanin FQ regulates neuroendocrine function of the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, Neuroscience. 102: 541-553.  PMID: 11226692

Kabbaj, M., Devine, D. P., Savage, V., and Akil, H. (2000). Neurobiological correlates of individual differences in novelty-seeking behavior in the rat: differential expression of stress-related molecules, Journal of Neuroscience. 20: 6983-6988.  PMID: 10995843

Akil, H., Meng, F., Devine, D. P. and Watson, S. J. (1997). Molecular and neuroanatomical properties of the endogenous opioid system: implications for treatment of opiate addiction, In: Seminars in Neuroscience - Strategies for the Treatment of Opiate Abuse, L. L. Iversen and B. H. Herman (Eds.), vol. 9, pp. 70?83 Academic Press, New York.

Devine, D. P., Taylor, L., Reinscheid, R. K., Monsma, F. J., Jr., Civelli, O. and Akil, H. (1996). Rats rapidly develop tolerance to the locomotor?inhibiting effects of the novel neuropeptide orphanin FQ, Neurochemical Research. 21: 1387?1396.  PMID: 8947929

Devine, D. P., Reinscheid, R. K., Monsma, F. J., Jr., Civelli, O. and Akil, H. (1996). The novel neuropeptide orphanin FQ fails to produce conditioned place preference or aversion, Brain Research. 727: 225?229.  PMID: 8842403

Carlezon, W. A. Jr., Devine, D. P. and Wise, R. A. (1995). Habit-forming actions of nomifensine in nucleus accumbens, Psychopharmacology. 122: 194?197.  PMID: 8848536

Devine, D. P. and Wise, R. A. (1994). Self-administration of morphine, DAMGO, and DPDPE into the ventral tegmental area of rats, Journal of Neuroscience. 14: 1978?1984.  PMID: 8158252

Devine, D. P., Leone, P. and Wise, R. A. (1993). Mesolimbic dopamine neurotransmission is increased by administration of µ?opioid receptor antagonists, European Journal of Pharmacology. 243: 55?64.  PMID: 7902813

Devine, D. P., Leone, P., Pocock, D. and Wise, R. A. (1993). Differential involvement of ventral tegmental area mu, delta and kappa opioid receptors in modulation of basal mesolimbic dopamine release: In vivo microdialysis studies, Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. 266: 1236?1246.  PMID: 7690399

Devine, D. P., Leone, P. and Wise, R. A. (1993). Striatal tissue preparation facilitates early sampling in microdialysis and reveals an index of neuronal damage, Journal of Neurochemistry. 61: 1246?1254.  PMID: 7690846

** A commentary on this paper was published in Current Separations, (1994). 12: 200.)

Devine, D. P., Leone, P. and Wise, R. A. (1993). Surgical preparation of striatal tissue facilitates early sampling in microdialysis and reveals an index of neuronal damage, Current Separations. 12: 68.

Devine, D. P., Leone, P., Carlezon, W. A. Jr. and Wise, R. A. (1993). Ventral mesencephalic δ opioid receptors are involved in modulation of basal mesolimbic dopamine neurotransmission: An anatomical localization study, Brain Research. 622: 348?352.  PMID: 8242379

Devine, D. P. and Spanos, N. P. (1990). Effectiveness of maximally different cognitive strategies and expectancy in attenuation of reported pain, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. 58: 672?678.  PMID: 2348363

Devine, D. P. and Spanos, N. P. (1988). Distraction, imagery, and expectancy factors in cognitive analgesia, Canadian Psychology. 29: 187.