​PREPRINTS

• Lee, J.D.A., Reppucci, C.J., Bowden, S.M., Huez, E.D.M, Bredewold, R., Veenema, A.H. (2021). Structural and functional sex differences in the ventral pallidal vasopressin system are associated with the sex-specific regulation of juvenile social play behavior in rats. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2021.01.31.429043. [link]

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:

• Reppucci, C. J., & Veenema, A. H. (2020). The Social versus Food Preference Test: A behavioral paradigm for studying competing motivated behaviors in rodents. MethodsX, 7:101119. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.101119 [link]
• Reppucci, C. J., Brown, L. A., Chambers, A. Q., & Veenema, A. H. (2020). Wistar rats and C57BL/6J mice differ in their motivation to seek social interaction versus food in the Social versus Food Preference Test. Physiology & Behavior. 227:113162. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113162. [link]
• Reppucci, C. J., Gergely, C. K., Bredewold, R., & Veenema, A. H. (2020). Involvement of orexin/hypocretin in the expression of social play behaviour in juvenile rats. International Journal of Play.  9(1):108-127. doi: 10.1080/21594937.2020.1720132 [pdf]
• Bredewold, R., Nascimento, N., Ro, G., Cieslewski, S., Reppucci, C.J., & Veenema, A.H. (2018). Involvement of dopamine, but not norepinephrine, in the sex-specific regulation of juvenile socially rewarding behavior by vasopressin. Neuropsychopharmacology. 43:2109–2117. doi:10.1038/s41386-018-0100-2. [pdf]
• Reppucci, C.J., Gergely, C.K., & Veenema, A.H. (2018). Activation patterns of vasopressinergic and oxytocinergic brain regions following social play exposure in juvenile male and female rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 30(8):e12582 doi: 10.1111/jne.12582. [pdf]
• Reppucci, C.J. & Petrovich, G.D. (2018). Neural substrates of fear-induced hypophagia in male and female rats. Brain Structure and Function. 223(6):2925-2947. doi: 10.1007/s00429-018-1668-3. [pdf]
• Reppucci, C. J. & Petrovich, G. D. (2016). Organization of connections between the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, and lateral hypothalamus: a single and double retrograde tracing study in rats. Brain Structure and Function. 221(6):2937–2962.  doi: 10.1007/s00429-015-1081-0. [pdf] 
• Reppucci, C.J., Kuthyar, M., & Petrovich, G.D. (2013). Contextual fear cues inhibit eating in food-deprived male and female rats. Appetite. 69:186-195. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2013.06.004. [pdf]
• Petrovich, G.D., Hobin M.P., & Reppucci, C.J. (2012). Selective Fos induction in hypothalamic orexin/hypocretin, but not melanin-concentrating hormone neurons, but a learned food-cue that stimulate feeding in sated rats. Neuroscience. 224:70-80. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.08.036. [pdf]
• Reppucci, C.J. & Petrovich, G.D. (2012). Learned food cue stimulates persistent feeding in sated rats. Appetite. 59(2):437-447.  doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.06.007. [pdf]

SELECTED ABSTRACTS (see CV for full list of abstracts & presentations):

• Reppucci, C.J., Chambers, A.Q., Brown, L.A., & Veenema, A.H. (2019, October). The motivation to seek social contact versus food differs with age and between rats and mice. Program No. 325.20. 2019 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience 2019. [link]
• Reppucci, C.J., Bredewold, R., Posani, S.S., Washington, C.L., & Veenema, A.H. (2018, November). Activation of the ventral
  tegmental area supports the expression of social play behavior in juvenile rats. Program No. 229.15. 2018 Neuroscience MeetingPlanner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2018. [link]
• Reppucci, C.J. (2018, November). Neural substrates underlying social motivation in juvenile rats. Program No. 347.04. 2018
  Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2018. Talk delivered during the “Social Motivation
  Across the Lifespan” Minisymposium.  [link]
• Reppucci, C.J., Gergely, C.K., Nascimento, N.F., Ro, G.S., Bredewold, R., & Veenema, A.H. (2017, November). Recruitment of the ventral tegmental area and its afferent pathways during socially rewarding behavior in juvenile male and female rats. Program No. 162.01. 2017 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience 2017. Online. [link]
• Smith, J.A., Bredewold, R., Reppucci, C.J., & Veenema, A.H. (2017, November). Behavioral and neuroanatomical characterization of the vasopressin system in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis reveals potential coordination of separate populations of vasopressin neurons in mediating social behavior. Program No. 162.04. 2017 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience 2017. Online. [link]
• Reppucci, C.J., Gergely, C.K., & Veenema, A.H. (2017, July). Recruitment of vasopressin and oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular and supraoptic hypothalamic nuclei during social play in juvenile male and female rats. Talk delivered and poster presented (#30) at the 12th World Congress on Neurohypophysial Hormones, Mangaratiba – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
• Reppucci, C.J., Gergely, C.K., Nascimento, N.F., Ro, G.S., Bredewold, R., & Veenema, A.H.  (2016, November). Socially rewarding behavior recruits orexin/hypocretin neurons in juvenile male and female rats. Program No. 260.09. 2016 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience 2016. Online.  [link]
• Nascimento, N.F., Ro, G.S., Reppucci,C. J., Bredewold, R., & Veenema, A.H. (2016, November). Lateral septum vasopressin system interacts with nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex to regulate social play in sex-specific ways. Program No. 260.06. 2016 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience 2016. Online. [link]
• Reppucci, C.J. & Petrovich, G.D. (2014, November). Suppressed Fos induction within the central nucleus of the amygdala corresponds with inhibited feeding in the presence of a fear-cue in male and female rats. Program No. 256.10. 2014 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2014. Online.  [link]
• Keefer, S.E., Reppucci, C.J., Mayer, H.S., & Petrovich, G.D. (2014, November). Plasticity within the basolateral amygdala pathways to the prelimbic cortex during Pavlovian appetitive conditioning. Program No. 650.11. 2014 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2014. Online.  [link]
• Reppucci, C.J. & Petrovich, G.D. (2013, November). Fear-cue inhibited feeding in male and female rats: Fos-induction within the central nucleus of the amygdala. Program No. 756.10. 2013 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2013. Online. [link]​
• Reppucci, C.J. & Petrovich, G.D. (2012, October). Neuroanatomical evidence for a topographically organized forebrain network composed of the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, and lateral hypothalamus in rats. Program No. 283.05. 2012 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. New Orleans, LA: Society for Neuroscience, 2012. Online. [link]
• Cole, S., Powell, D.J., Hobin, M.P., Reppucci, C.J., Petrovich, G.D. (2012, July). Expression of Pavlovian appetitive conditioning recruits orexin neurons in the medial region of the lateral hypothalamus in the rat. Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. Appetite. 59(Supplement 1):e14. [pdf]
• Kuthyar, M., Reppucci, C.J., & Petrovich, G.D. (2011, November). Fear-contextual cues inhibit eating in food-deprived male and female rats. Program No. 412.13. 2011 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2011. Online. [link]
• Petrovich, G.D. & Reppucci, C.J. (2011, November). Selective activation of the hypothalamic peptide orexin/hypocretin, but not melanin-concentrating hormone by a learned cue that stimulates feeding in sated rats. Program No. 285.23. 2011 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2011. Online. [link]
• Reppucci, C.J. & Petrovich, G.D. (2011, November). ​Characterization of the basolateral amygdala pathways to the medial prefrontal cortex and lateral hypothalamus in rats. Program No. 600.16. 2011 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2011. Online. [link]