Lauren R. Fitzgerald

Instructor

UAMS

Also affiliated: University of Maryland, Baltimore (2024)

Faculty Researcher

2 h-index 6 pubs 15 cited

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Lauren R. Fitzgerald investigates the pharmacological effects of various psychoactive substances, with a focus on their impact on behavior and neurobiology in animal models and humans. Her research has examined structure-activity relationships for the locomotor stimulant effects and monoamine transporter interactions of substituted amphetamines and cathinones. Fitzgerald has also studied the abuse liability and psychosis-like neurocognitive effects of novel arylcyclohexylamine drugs in rodents, as well as the influence of ambient temperature on psychostimulant-induced behaviors in mice. Her work also includes exploring the role of gabapentin and other agents in opioid use disorder treatment, investigating heart rate variability in participants undergoing buprenorphine-assisted transitions. Fitzgerald collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Brenda M. Gannon and William E. Fantegrossi.

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h-index: 2
Publications: 6
Citations: 15

Selected Publications

Exploratory study of heart rate variability among participants with opioid use disorder inducted on gabapentin versus placebo during outpatient buprenorphine-assisted transition to injection naltrexone. (2025)

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology DOI OpenAlex
Gabapentin and D-cycloserine alone and in combination with naloxone in methadone-maintained humans responding under a naloxone novel-response discrimination procedure (2025)

Behavioural Pharmacology DOI OpenAlex
Erratum to “Effects of ambient temperature on locomotor activity and place conditioning elicited by abused psychostimulants in mice: Role of 3,4-methylenedioxy moiety” [Drug Alcohol Depend. 250 (2023) 110917] (2024)

Drug and Alcohol Dependence DOI OpenAlex
Phencyclidine-Like Abuse Liability and Psychosis-Like Neurocognitive Effects of Novel Arylcyclohexylamine Drugs of Abuse in Rodents (2024)

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
Structure-activity relationships for locomotor stimulant effects and monoamine transporter interactions of substituted amphetamines and cathinones (2023)

Neuropharmacology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Effects of ambient temperature on locomotor activity and place conditioning elicited by abused psychostimulants in mice: Role of 3,4-methylenedioxy moiety (2023)

Drug and Alcohol Dependence 1 citation DOI OpenAlex