Michael Terranova

Journal Article The Gerontologist · September 2025 Background and objectivesCare for persons with dementia costs ∼$500 billion annually in the United States. Few qualitative studies or conceptual frameworks of the financial experiences of people impacted by dementia exist. This study examined how ... Full text Cite

Caregiver Experiences Navigating the Diagnostic Journey in a Rapidly Progressing Dementia.

Journal Article Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · July 2023 IntroductionPeople with suspected Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and their families experience a burdensome process while seeking a diagnosis. These challenges are problematic in the most common dementia syndromes, but they can b ... Full text Cite

Developing neuropalliative care for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

Journal Article Prion · December 2022 We aimed to identify targets for neuropalliative care interventions in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by examining characteristics of patients and sources of distress and support among former caregivers. We identified caregivers of decedents with spora ... Full text Cite

In vivo reduction of striatal D1R by RNA interference alters expression of D1R signaling-related proteins and enhances methamphetamine addiction in male rats.

Journal Article Brain structure & function · April 2020 This study sought to determine if reducing dopamine D1 receptor (D1R) expression in the dorsal striatum (DS) via RNA-interference alters methamphetamine self-administration. A lentiviral construct containing a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) was used to knock do ... Full text Cite

Voluntary wheel running during adolescence distinctly alters running output in adulthood in male and female rats.

Journal Article Behavioural brain research · January 2020 Adult female rats show greater running output compared with age-matched male rats, and the midbrain dopaminergic system may account for behavioral differences in running output. However, it is unknown if the lower running output in adult males can be regul ... Full text Cite

Sex differences in context-driven reinstatement of methamphetamine seeking is associated with distinct neuroadaptations in the dentate gyrus

Journal Article Brain Sciences · December 1, 2018 The present study examined differences in operant responses in adult male and female rats during distinct phases of addiction. Males and females demonstrated escalation in methamphetamine (0.05 mg/kg, i.v.) intake with females showing enhanced latency to e ... Full text Cite

Hippocampal neural progenitor cells play a distinct role in fear memory retrieval in male and female CIE rats.

Journal Article Neuropharmacology · December 2018 Adult male and female GFAP-TK transgenic rats experienced six weeks of chronic intermittent ethanol vapor inhalation (CIE). During the last week of CIE, a subset of male and female TK rats were fed with Valcyte to ablate neural progenitor cells (NPCs). Sev ... Full text Cite

Neurogenesis during Abstinence Is Necessary for Context-Driven Methamphetamine-Related Memory.

Journal Article The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · February 2018 Abstinence from methamphetamine addiction enhances proliferation and differentiation of neural progenitors and increases adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus (DG). We hypothesized that neurogenesis during abstinence contributes to context-driven drug-se ... Full text Cite