Jun Wang, MD, PhD

Education and Training

• Tongji Medical University, MD
• Shanghai Brain Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD
• University of California at Berkeley and at San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

A full publication list can be found here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/48884973/?sort=date&direction=ascending

• Jiayi Lu, Yifeng Cheng, Xuehua Wang, Kayla Woodson, Craig Kemper, Emily Disney, and Jun Wang. Alcohol Intake Enhances Glutamatergic Transmission from D2 Receptor-Expressing Afferents onto D1 Receptor-Expressing Medium Spiny Neurons in the Dorsomedial Striatum. Neuropsychopharmacology, Accepted.
• Yifeng Cheng and Jun Wang. The Use of Chemogenetic Approaches in Alcohol Use Disorder Research and Treatment. Alcohol, 74:39-45 (2019).
• Yifeng Cheng, Xuehua Wang, Xiaoyan Wei, Xueyi Xie, Sebastian Melo, Rajesh C. Miranda, and Jun Wang. Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol Induces Functional and Structural Plasticity in Dopamine D1 Receptor-Expressing Neurons of the Dorsomedial Striatum. 
  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Research, 42:1493-1502 (2018).
• Tengfei Ma^#, Yifeng Cheng^#, Emily Roltsch Hellard, Xuehua Wang, Jiayi Lu, Xinsheng Gao, Cathy C.Y. Huang, Xiao-Yan Wei, Jun-Yuan Ji, and Jun Wang. Bidirectional and Long-Lasting Control of Alcohol-Seeking Behavior by Corticostriatal LTP and LTD. Nature Neuroscience, 21:373-383 (2018).

This article was recommended in Faculty of 1000 as being of special significance in its field: https://f1000.com/prime/732647279).

• Xiaoyan, Wei^#, Tengfei Ma^#, Yifeng Cheng, Cathy C.Y. Huang, Xuehua Wang, Jiayi Lu, and Jun Wang. Dopamine D1 or D2 Receptor-Expressing Neurons in the Central Nervous System. Addiction Biology, 23:569-584 (2017). (^#Equal contribution)
• Cathy C.Y. Huang^#, Tengfei Ma^#, Emily Roltsch Hellard^#, Xuehua Wang, Amutha Selvamani, Jiayi Lu, Farida Sohrabji, and Jun Wang. Stroke Triggers Nigrostriatal Plasticity and Increases Alcohol Consumption in Rats. Scientific Reports, 7:2501 (2017).
• Tengfei Ma, Britton Barbee, Xuehua Wang, and Jun Wang. Alcohol Induces Input-Specific Aberrant Synaptic Plasticity in the Rat Dorsomedial Striatum. Neuropharmacology, 123: 46-54 (2017).
• Yifeng Cheng^#, Cathy C.Y. Huang^#, Tengfei Ma^#, Xiaoyan Wei, Xuehua Wang, Jiayi Lu, and Jun Wang*. Distinct Synaptic Strengthening of the Striatal Direct and Indirect Pathways Drives Alcohol Consumption. Biological Psychiatry, 81: 918-929 (2017).

Figure 1A of this article was selected for the cover page of this issue.

This article was highlighted "In This Issue" section.

This article received a Commentary "Tipping Scales Toward Addiction", 81: 903-904 (2017).

• Jun Wang*, Yifeng Cheng, Xuehua Wang, Emily Roltsch, Tengfei Ma, Hannah Gil, Sami Ben Hamida, and Dorit Ron*. Alcohol Elicits Functional and Structural Plasticity Selectively in Dopamine D1 Receptor-Expressing Neurons of the Dorsomedial Striatum. Journal of Neuroscience 35: 11634-11643 (2015). *Corresponding authors.

This article was highlighted in the "This Week in The Journal" section.

• Jun Wang, Sami Ben Hamida, Emmanuel Darcq, Wenheng Zhu, Stuart L. Gibb, Maria Fe Lanfranco, Sebastien Carnicella, and Dorit Ron. Ethanol-Mediated Facilitation of AMPA Receptor Function in the Dorsomedial Striatum: Implication for Alcohol Drinking Behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience 32:15124 –15132 (2012).
• Jun Wang, Maria Fe Lanfranco, Stuart L. Gibb, Quinn V. Yowell, Sebastien Carnicella, and Dorit Ron. Long-Lasting Adaptations of the NR2B-Containing NMDA Receptors in the Dorsomedial Striatum Play a Crucial Role in Alcohol Consumption and Relapse. The Journal of Neuroscience 30:10187-10198 (2010a).
• Jun Wang, Sebastien Carnicella, Dao-Yao He, Somayeh Ahmadiantehrani, Segev Barak, Sami Ben Hamida, Viktor Kharazia, Agustin Zapata, Toni S. Shippenberg, and Dorit Ron. Nucleus Accumbens-Derived GDNF Is a Retrograde Enhancer of Dopaminergic Tone in the Mesocorticolimbic System. The Journal of Neuroscience 30: 14502-14512, (2010b).
• Jun Wang, Sebastien Carnicella, Khanhky Phamluong, Jerome Jeanblanc, Jennifer A. Ronesi, Nadia Chaudhri, Patricia H. Janak, David M. Lovinger, and Dorit Ron. Ethanol Induces Long-Term Facilitation of NR2B-NMDA Receptor Activity in the Dorsal Striatum: Implications for Alcohol Drinking Behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience27:3593-3602 (2007). 
  (Faculty of 1000 Biology: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1085799, factor 6 “must read” category).
• Jorge J. Palop, Jeannie Chin, Erik D. Roberson, Jun Wang, Myo T. Thwin, Nga Bien-Ly, Jong Yoo, Kaitlyn O. Ho, Gui-Qiu Yu, Anatol Kreitzer, Steven Finkbeiner, Jeffrey L. Noebels, and Lennart Mucke. Aberrant Excitatory Neuronal Activity and Compensatory Remodeling of Inhibitory Hippocampal Circuits in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuron 55:697-711 (2007).