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Home > CDAP > Dr. Peter Kalivas
Dr. Peter Kalivas

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Distinguished University Professor
Professor, Department of Neurosciences
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

EDUCATION

Western Washington State University, Bellingham, WA B.S. 1974 Biology
University of Washington, Seattle, WAPh.D. 1980Pharmacology 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NCPostdoctoral 1982Neuropharmacology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1982-1984 Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
1984-1987Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, & Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1987-1991Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, & Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1990-1998Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1991-1998Professor, Department of Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, & Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1995-1996Visiting Professor, Department of Anatomy & Histology, The Flinders University School of Medicine, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1998-presentProfessor and Chair, Department of Neurosciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC
2000-2003Co-Director, Neuroscience Institute, MUSC, Charleston, SC

AWARDS AND HONORS

1980 NIMH Postdoctoral Trainee Fellowship
1990NIDA Research Career Development Award     
1993Smith-Kline-Beecham Research Excellence Award
1993Plenary Lecture, Summer Neuropeptide Conference, Martha's Vineyard
1995Fogarty Senior Fellowship
1995Plenary Lecture, Dopamine Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan
1996Daniel H Efron Award (American College of Neuropsychopharmacology)
1996Washington State Sahlin Faculty Research Excellence Award
1996Plenary Lecture, 7th In Vivo Monitoring of Molecules in Neuroscience, Tenerife, Spain
1996Grass Traveling Scientist Award, Indianapolis Chapter of Society for Neuroscience, Indianapolis
1998Elliot Stellar Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1999Grass Traveling Scientist Award, Nashville Chapter of Society for Neuroscience, Nashville, TN
1999Plenary Lecture, American Neuropsychiatric Society, Fort Myers, FL
1999Grass Traveling Scientist Award, Mississippi Chapter of Society for Neuroscience, Jackson
2001Honorary Professor of Neurological Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, China
2001Grass Traveling Scientist Award, Kentucky Chapter of Society for Neuroscience, Lexington, KY
2001Plenary Lecture, Neuroscience Hellenic Society, San Diego, CA
2001-2011NIDA Merit Award for 2001-2011
2002Wheeler Plenary Speaker, 33rd International Narcotics Research Conference, Pacific Grove
2002Plenary Lecture, Society for Neuroimmunology, Tampa, FL
2002Appointed to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
2003Distinguished University Professor, MUSC
2003Grass Traveling Scientist Award, Michigan Chapter Society for Neuroscience, Detroit, MI
2003Appointed to NARSAD Scientific Advisory Board
2003Appointed to the Fundacion Cerebro y Mente Advisory Board
2004Keynote Lecture, University of Cincinnati Medical School 25th Annual Research Forum
2004Sigma Xi Banquet Speaker, The Citadel, Charleston, SC
2005Distinguished Basic Science Scholar on the Addictions (Am J Addict)
2005Plenary Speaker, Research Society for Alcoholism, Santa Barbara, CA
2005Elected to ACNP Council
2005Appointed as Chair of the NIDA Medications Development SAB
2006Plenary Lecture, International Neuroscience Winter Conference, Solden, Austria
2006Special Lecture, Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA

PUBLICATIONS (2006-present)
Carr D & Kalivas PW. Orexin: A gatekeeper of addiction. Nature Medicine 12(3):274-276, 2006.

Champtiaux N, Kalivas PW & Bardo MT. Contribution of dihydro-beta-erythroidine sensitive nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the ventral tegmental area to cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization in rats. Behavior Brain Research 168(1):120-126, 2006.

Kalivas PW & Hu X-T. Exciting inhibition in psychostimulant addiction. Trends in Neurosciences 29(11):610-616, 2006.

Kalivas PW, Peters J & Knackstedt L. Animal models and brain circuits in drug addiction. Molecular Interventions 6(6):339-344, 2006.

LaRowe SD, Mardikian P, Malcolm R, Myrick H, Kalivas P, McFarland K, Saladin M, McRae A & Brady K. Safety and tolerability of N-acetylcysteine in cocaine-dependent individuals. American Journal on Addictions 15(1):105-110, 2006.

Melendez RI, Middaugh LD & Kalivas PW. Development of an alcohol deprivation and escalation effect in C57BL/6J mice. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research 30(12):2017-2025, 2006.

Nogueira L, Kalivas PW & Lavin A. Long-term neuroadaptations produced by withdrawal from repeated cocaine treatment: Role of dopaminergic receptors in modulating cortical excitability. Journal of Neuroscience 26(47):12308-12313, 2006.

Peters J & Kalivas PW. The group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, LY379268, inhibits both cocaine- and food-seeking behavior in rats. Psychopharmacology 186(2):143-149, 2006.

Shih AY, Erb H, Sun X, Toda S, Kalivas PW & Murphy TH. Cystine/glutamate exchange modulates glutathione supply for neuroprotection from oxidative stress and cell proliferation. Journal of Neuroscience 26(41):10514-10523, 2006.

Szumlinski KK, Abernathy KE, Oleson EB, Klugmann M, Lominac KD, He D-Y, Ron D, During M & Kalivas PW. Homer isoforms differentially regulate cocaine-induced neuroplasticity. Neuropsychopharmacology 31(4):768-777, 2006.

Szumlinski KK, Kalivas PW & Worley PF. Homer proteins: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16(3):251-257, 2006.

Toda S, Shen HW, Peters J, Cagle S & Kalivas PW. Cocaine increases actin cycling: Effects in the reinstatement model of drug seeking. Journal of Neuroscience 26(5):1579-1587, 2006.

Kalivas PW. Neurobiology of cocaine addiction: Implications for new pharmacotherapy. American Journal on Addictions 16(2):71-78, 2007.

Knackstedt LA & Kalivas PW. Extended access to cocaine self-administration enhances drug-primed reinstatement but not behavioral sensitization. Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics 322(3):1103-1109, 2007.

Larowe SD, Myrick H, Hedden S, Mardikian P, Saladin M, McRae A, Brady K, Kalivas PW & Malcolm R. Is cocaine desire reduced by N-acetylcysteine? American Journal of Psychiatry 164(7):1115-1117, 2007.

Mardikian PN, Larowe SD, Hedden S, Kalivas PW & Malcolm RJ. An open-label trial of N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of cocaine dependence: A pilot study. Progress in Neuro Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 31(2):389-394, 2007.

Pacchioni AM, Vallone J, Melendez RI, Shih A, Murphy TH & Kalivas PW. Nrf2 gene deletion fails to alter psychostimulant-induced behavior or neurotoxicity. Brain Research 1127(1):26-35, 2007.

Shen H, Korutla L, Champtiaux N, Toda S, LaLumiere R, Vallone J, Klugmann M, Blendy JA, Mackler SA & Kalivas PW. NAC1 regulates the recruitment of the proteasome complex into dendritic spines. Journal of Neuroscience 27(33):8903-8913, 2007.

Zhou W, Liu H, Zhang F, Tang S, Zhu H, Lai M & Kalivas PW. Role of acetylcholine transmission in nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in heroin-seeking induced by conditioned cues. Neuroscience 144(4):1209-1218, 2007.

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