Lex Kravitz

Lex Kravitz

Washington University in St. Louis

H-index: 38

North America-United States

About Lex Kravitz

Lex Kravitz, With an exceptional h-index of 38 and a recent h-index of 32 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, specializes in the field of Neuroscience, Obesity, Addiction, Reward.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

MouseVUER: video based open-source system for laboratory mouse home-cage monitoring

TMEM135 links peroxisomes to the regulation of brown fat mitochondrial fission and energy homeostasis

Fused fiber couplers for fiber photometry

Nucleus accumbens D1 receptor–expressing spiny projection neurons control food motivation and obesity

Toggling between food-seeking and self-preservation behaviors via hypothalamic response networks

Kappa opioid receptor activation increases thermogenic energy expenditure which drives increased feeding

Dopaminergic innervation at the central nucleus of the amygdala reveals distinct topographically segregated regions

Imaging neuroinflammation in an animal model of diet-induced obesity

Lex Kravitz Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

7710

Citations(since 2020)

4246

Cited By

5079

hIndex(all)

38

hIndex(since 2020)

32

i10Index(all)

62

i10Index(since 2020)

57

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Lex Kravitz Skills & Research Interests

Neuroscience

Obesity

Addiction

Reward

Top articles of Lex Kravitz

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

MouseVUER: video based open-source system for laboratory mouse home-cage monitoring

Scientific Reports

Ghadi Salem

Niall Cope

Marcial Garmendia

Alex Pu

Abhishek Somenhalli

...

2024/2/1

TMEM135 links peroxisomes to the regulation of brown fat mitochondrial fission and energy homeostasis

Nature communications

Donghua Hu

Min Tan

Dongliang Lu

Brian Kleiboeker

Xuejing Liu

...

2023/9/29

Fused fiber couplers for fiber photometry

Cell Reports Methods

Alex A Legaria

Alexxai V Kravitz

2023/3/27

Nucleus accumbens D1 receptor–expressing spiny projection neurons control food motivation and obesity

Biological psychiatry

Bridget A Matikainen-Ankney

Alex A Legaria

Yiyan Pan

Yvan M Vachez

Caitlin A Murphy

...

2023/3/15

Toggling between food-seeking and self-preservation behaviors via hypothalamic response networks

Neuron

Isabel de Araujo Salgado

Chia Li

C Joseph Burnett

Shakira Rodriguez Gonzalez

Jordan J Becker

...

2023/9/20

Kappa opioid receptor activation increases thermogenic energy expenditure which drives increased feeding

Iscience

Aaron L Cone

Kenny K Wu

Alexxai V Kravitz

Aaron J Norris

2023/7/21

Dopaminergic innervation at the central nucleus of the amygdala reveals distinct topographically segregated regions

Brain Structure and Function

Eric Casey

María Elena Avale

Alexxai Kravitz

Marcelo Rubinstein

2023/3

Imaging neuroinflammation in an animal model of diet-induced obesity

Chandresh Shyam

Timothy Whitehead

Dong Zhou

Lin Qiu

Piyush Maiti

...

2023/6/1

Identification of a stress-sensitive anorexigenic neurocircuit from medial prefrontal cortex to lateral hypothalamus

Biological Psychiatry

Rachel E Clarke

Katharina Voigt

Alex Reichenbach

Romana Stark

Urvi Bharania

...

2023/2/15

Impact of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and oxycodone co-administration on measures of antinociception, dependence, circadian activity, and reward in mice

bioRxiv

Richard A Slivicki

Justin G Wang

Vy Trinh Tran Nhat

Alexxai V Kravitz

Meaghan C Creed

...

2023/12/5

Induction of a torpor-like hypothermic and hypometabolic state in rodents by ultrasound

Nature Metabolism

Yaoheng Yang

Jinyun Yuan

Rachael L Field

Dezhuang Ye

Zhongtao Hu

...

2023/5

Oral oxycodone self‐administration leads to features of opioid misuse in male and female mice

Addiction Biology

Richard A Slivicki

Tom Earnest

Yu‐Hsuan Chang

Rajesh Pareta

Eric Casey

...

2023/1

Partial ablation of postsynaptic dopamine D2 receptors in the central nucleus of the amygdala increases risk avoidance in exploratory tasks

ENeuro

Eric Casey

María Elena Avale

Alexxai Kravitz

Marcelo Rubinstein

2022/3/1

Glutamatergic Supramammillary Nucleus Neurons Respond to Threatening Stressors and Promote Active Coping

bioRxiv

Abraham Escobedo

Salli-Ann Holloway

Megan Votoupal

Aaron L Cone

Hannah E Skelton

...

2022/9/23

Enhanced food motivation in obese mice is controlled by D1R expressing spiny projection neurons in the nucleus accumbens

bioRxiv

Bridget A Matikainen-Ankney

Alex A Legaria

Yvan M Vachez

Caitlin A Murphy

Yiyan Pan

...

2022/1/13

Fiber photometry in striatum reflects primarily nonsomatic changes in calcium

Nature neuroscience

Alex A Legaria

Bridget A Matikainen-Ankney

Ben Yang

Biafra Ahanonu

Julia A Licholai

...

2022/9

Metabolic sensing in AgRP neurons integrates homeostatic state with dopamine signalling in the striatum

Elife

Alex Reichenbach

Rachel E Clarke

Romana Stark

Sarah Haas Lockie

Mathieu Mequinion

...

2022/1/12

Natural locus coeruleus dynamics during feeding

Science advances

Natale R Sciolino

Madeline Hsiang

Christopher M Mazzone

Leslie R Wilson

Nicholas W Plummer

...

2022/8/19

Scalable and modular wireless-network infrastructure for large-scale behavioural neuroscience

Nature biomedical engineering

Raza Qazi

Kyle E Parker

Choong Yeon Kim

Ruediger Rill

Makenzie R Norris

...

2022/6

Impact of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Administration on Measures of Oxycodone-induced Antinociception, Dependence and Reward in Mice

The Journal of Pain

Richard Slivicki

Vy Trinh Tran Nhat

Justin G Wang

Alexxai V Kravitz

Meaghan C Creed

...

2022/5/1

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