Publications

43+ peer-reviewed articles including Nature, Science, and Nature Neuroscience

33H-Index
7,232+Citations

Selected Publications

2024Biol Psychiatry

SIRT1 coordinates transcriptional regulation of neural activity and modulates depression-like behaviors in the nucleus accumbens

Kim HD, Wei J, Call T, Ma X, Quintus NT, Summers AJ, Carotenuto S, Johnson R, Nguyen A, Cui Y, Park JG, Qiu S, Ferguson D

2024STAR Protoc

Protocol for Xenium spatial transcriptomics studies using fixed frozen mouse brain sections

Ma X, Chen P, Wei J, Zhang J, Chen C, Zhao H, Ferguson D, McGee AW, Dai Z, Qiu S

2025Neural Regen Res

MET receptor tyrosine kinase promotes the generation of functional synapses in adult cortical circuits

Cui Y, Ma X, Wei J, Chen C, Shakir N, Guirram H, Dai Z, Anderson T, Ferguson D, Qiu S

2021Mol Psychiatry

Shisa6 mediates cell-type specific regulation of depression in the nucleus accumbens

Kim HD, Wei J, Call T, Quintus NT, Summers AJ, Carotenuto S, Johnson R, Ma X, Xu C, Park JG, Qiu S, Ferguson D

2015J Neurosci

SIRT1-FOXO3a regulate cocaine actions in the nucleus accumbens

Ferguson D, Shao N, Heller E, Feng J, Neve R, Kim HD, Call T, Magazu S, Shen L, Nestler EJ

2015Nat Neurosci

Role of Tet1 and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in cocaine action

Feng J, Shao N, Szulwach KE, Vialou V, Huynh J, Zhong C, Le T, Ferguson D, ..., Nestler EJ

2014Nature

β-catenin mediates stress resilience through Dicer1/microRNA regulation

Dias C, Feng J, Sun H, ..., Ferguson D, ..., Nestler EJ

2014Nat Neurosci

Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors

Heller EA, Cates HM, Pena CJ, ..., Ferguson D, ..., Nestler EJ

2013J Neurosci

Essential role of SIRT1 signaling in the nucleus accumbens in cocaine and morphine action

Ferguson D, Koo JW, Feng J, Heller E, Rabkin J, Heshmati M, Renthal W, Neve R, Liu X, Shao N, Sartorelli V, Shen L, Nestler EJ

2013Nature

Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons

Chaudhury D, Walsh JJ, Friedman AK, ..., Ferguson D, ..., Nestler EJ, Han MH

2012Science

BDNF is a negative modulator of morphine action

Koo JW, Mazei-Robison MS, Chaudhury D, ..., Ferguson D, ..., Nestler EJ