Publications

Grzanzinski R*, Carpenter RS, Rutsohn J, Jatkar A, Mata K, Bhatt A, Ortiz-Juza MM, Dennehey MR, Gilleskie D, Elison J, Pégard NC, Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. Pupil responses to social stimuli are associated with adaptive behaviors across the first 24 months of life. The Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2025; 17(1):44. 12 p. 

Ortiz-Juza MM, Ung RL, Hegel SM, Ring AL, Miller NW, Garcia-Reyes RA, Nomura H, Zhou P, Kato HK, Pégard NC, Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. Extended amygdala Pnoc neurons signal escape behavior. Biological Psychiatry: Open Global Science. 2025; 5(5):100538. 10 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J*, Tormes-Vaquerano J, McTaggart EM, Ortiz-Juza MM, Miller NW, Thomas K, Florido A, Pégard NC*. Motor Assisted Commutator to Harness Electronics in Tethered Experiments. eNeuro, 2024 12(5):ENEURO.0583-24.2025. 11 p.

Cai C, Traubert O, Tormes-Vaquerano J, Eybposh MH, Turuga SC, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Naumann EA, Pégard NC*. Compressive streak microscopy for fast sampling of fluorescent reporters of neural activity. 2025; Neurophotonics, 12(02):025013. 15 p. 

Florido A, Curtis VR, Pégard NC and Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. New Discoveries in the Brian Sciences of Fear and Anxiety: Disentangling the neural circuits of arousal and anxiety-like behavior. Berlin, Germany: Springer Nature; 2024. 30 p. 

McTaggart EM, Miller NW, Ortiz-Juza MM, Pégard NC*, and Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. A fully automated social interaction chamber for studying social threat learning in mice. 2024; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1481935. 8 p.

Ortiz-Juza MM, Tormes-Vaquerano J, Hegel S, Curtis VR, Alghorazi RA, Miller NW, McTaggart EM, Pégard NC*, and Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. Protocol for an open-source system for Calcium-imaging, Pupillometry, and Locomotion-estimated Tracking. 2024; Cell Press: STAR Protocols, 5(4):103331. 35 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J* and Quirk GJ*. Mentoring to propagate racial inclusivity in neuroscience. 2024; Neuron, 112 (17): 2833-2836. 4 p. 

Eybposh MH, Cai C, Moossavi A, Rodriguez-Romaguera J* and Pégard NC*. ConIQA: A deep learning method for perceptual image quality assessment with limited data. 2022; Scientific Reports, 14, 20066. 10 p. 

Eybposh MH, Curtis VR, Rodriguez-Romaguera J* and Pégard NC*. Advances in computer-generated holography for targeted neuronal modulation. 2022; Neurophotonics, 9(4), 041409. 18 p. 

Dichter GS* and Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. Preclinical, Translational, and Clinical Integration: Anhedonia and Hyperhedonia in Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Berlin, Germany: Springer Nature; 2022. 28 p. 

Ortiz-Juza MM, Alghorazi RA, and Rodriguez-Romaguera J*. Cell-type diversity in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to regulate motivated behaviors. 2021; Behavioral Brain Research, 411, 113401. 7 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Ung RL, Nomura H, Otis JM, Basiri ML, Namboodiri VMK, Zhu X, Robinson JE, van den Munkhof HE, McHenry JA, Eckman LEH, Kosyk O, Jhou TC, Kash TL, Bruchas MR and Stuber GD*. Prepronociceptin expressing neurons in the extended amygdala encode and promote rapid arousal responses to motivational salient stimuli. 2020; Cell Reports, 33(6):108362. 11 p.

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Namboodiri VMK, Basiri ML, Stamatakis AL and Stuber GD*. Addiction: Developments from bulk optogenetics to single-cell strategies to dissect the neural circuits that underlie aberrant motivational states. Cold Spring Harbor (NY): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2020. 11 p. 

Resendez SL, Namboodiri VMK, Otis JM, Eckman LEH, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Ung RL, Basiri ML, Kosyk O, Rossi MA, Dichter GS and Stuber GD*. Social stimuli induce activation of oxytocin neurons within the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus to promote social behavior in male mice. 2020; Journal of Neuroscience, 40(11): 2282-2295. 14 p. 

Otis JM, Zhu M, Namboodiri VMK, Cook CA, Kosyk O, Matan AM, Ying R, Hashikawa K, Ivan Trujillo- Pisanty I, Jiami G, Ung RL, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Anton ES and Stuber GD*. Paraventricular thalamus projection neurons integrate cortical and hypothalamic signals for cue- reward processing. 2019; Neuron, 103(3): 423-431. 9 p. 

Namboodiri VMK, Otis JM, van Heeswijk K, Voets ES, Alghorazi R, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Mihalas S and Stuber GD*. Distinct ensembles of orbitofrontal neurons track and support associative learning. 2018; Nature Neuroscience, 22(7): 1110-1121. 11 p. 

Diehl MM, Bravo-Rivera C, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Pagán-Rivera PA, Burgos-Robles A, Roman- Ortiz C, and Quirk GJ*. Active avoidance requires inhibitory signaling in the rodent prelimbic prefrontal cortex. 2018; eLife, e34657. 19 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J and Stuber GD*. Social isolation co-opts fear and aggression circuits. 2018; Cell, 173 (5): 1071-1072. 2 p. 

Zhou P, Resendez SL, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Jimenez JC, Neufeld SQ, Stuber GD, Hen R, Mazen A, Sabatini BL, Kass RE, and Paninski L*. Efficient and accurate extraction of in vivo calcium signals from microendoscopic video data. 2018; eLife, e28728. 37 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J and Quirk GJ*. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Phenomenology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment: Extinction of conditioned fear and avoidance: Relevance for OCD. New York City (NY): Oxford University Press; 2017. 17 p.

Namboodiri VMK, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, and Stuber GD*. The Habenula. 2016; Current Biology, 26: R873-R877. 5 p. 

Martínez-Rivera FJ, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Lloret-Torres ME, Do Monte FH, Quirk GJ, and Barreto-Estrada JL*. Bidirectional modulation of extinction of drug seeking by deep brain stimulation of the ventral striatum. 2016; Biological Psychiatry, 80:682-690. 9 p.

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Greenberg BD, Rasmussen SA, and Quirk GJ*. An avoidance-based rodent model of exposure with response prevention therapy. 2016; Biological Psychiatry, 80:534-540. 7 p. 

Heilbronner SR, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Quirk GJ, Groenewegen HJ, and Haber SN*. Circuit based cortico-striatal homologies between rat and primate. 2016; Biological Psychiatry, 80:509-521. 12 p. 

Rosal-Vidal LE, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Do-Monte FHM, and Andero R*. Targeting the reconsolidation of extinction memories: a novel potential strategy to treat anxiety disorders. 2015; Molecular Psychiatry, 20(11):1264-5. 2 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Greenberg BD, Haber SN, and Quirk GJ*. A cross-species approach to understanding DBS modulation of fear. 2015; Brain Stimulation, 8(5):986-8. 3 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Do Monte FHM, Tanimura Y, Quirk GJ, and Haber SN*. Enhancement of fear extinction with DBS of ventral striatum: evidence for medial OFC involvement. 2015; Neuropsychopharmacology, 40(7):1726-33. 8 p. 

Bravo-Rivera C, Diehl MM, Roman-Ortiz C, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Rosas-Vidal LE, Bravo- Rivera H, Quinones-Laracuente K and Do-Monte FHM. Long-range GABAergic neurons in the prefrontal cortex modulate behavior. 2014; Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(3):1357-1359. 3 p. 

Do Monte FHM, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Rosas-Vidal LE, and Quirk GJ*. Deep brain stimulation of the ventral striatum increases BDNF in the fear extinction circuit. 2016; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 7:102. 9 p. 

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Do Monte FHM, and Quirk GJ*. Deep brain stimulation of the ventral striatum enhances extinction of conditioned fear. 2012; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109:8764-8769. 6 p. 

Rougemont-Bucking A, Linnman C, Zeffiro TA, Zeidan MA, Lebron-Milad K, Rodriguez- Romaguera J, Rauch SL, Pitman RK, and Milad MR*. Altered processing of contextual information during fear extinction in PTSD: an fMRI study. 2011; CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics, 17:227-236. 9 p.

Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Sotres-Bayon F, Mueller D, and Quirk GJ*. Systemic propranolol acts centrally to reduce conditioned fear in rats without impairing extinction. 2009; Biological Psychiatry, 65:887- 892. 6 p.