Neurobiology & Anatomy Department at  DUCOM
Biomedical Graduate Studies at DUCOM

Devilbiss DM and Waterhouse BD.  Locus coeruleus regulates sensory encoding by neurons and networks in animals.  Journal of Neuroscience 26: 9860-9872, 2006.

Drouin C, Page M, and Waterhouse BD.  Methylphenidate enhances noradrenergic transmission and suppresses mid-and long-latency sensory  responses in the primary  somatosensory cortex of awake rats. Journal of Neurophysiology 96: 622-632, 2006.

Rutter JR, Devilbiss DM, and
Waterhouse BD.  Effects of systemically administered cocaine on sensory responses to peri-threshold vibrissae stimulation: individual cells, ensemble activity and animal behavior.  European Journal of Neuroscience 22: 3205-3216, 2005. 

Lee HS, Kim MA, and Waterhouse BD.  2005. Retrograde double- labeling study of common afferent projections to the dorsal raphe and the nuclear core of the locus coeruleus in the rat.  Journal of Comparative Neurology 481: 179-193, 2005.

Devilbiss D and Waterhouse BD.  Effects of tonic locus ceruleus output on sensory-evoked responses of ventral posterior medial thalamic and barrel field cortical neurons in the awake rat.  Multimodal influences of the locus coeruleus efferent pathway on signal transmission through ascending sensory pathways.  Journal of Neuroscience 24: 10773-10785, 2004.

Drouin CE and Waterhouse, BD.  Cocaine-induced vs behavior-related alterations of spontaneous and evoked discharge of somatosensory cortical neurons.  European Journal of Neuroscience 19: 1016-1026, 2004.

Simpson KL, Waterhouse BD, and Lin RCS.  Differential expression of nitric oxide in  serotonergic projection neurons: neurochemical identification of dorsal raphe inputs to rodent trigeminal somatosensory targets.  Journal of Comparative Neurology 466: 495-512, 2003.