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  1. A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Novel, Potent Kv7 Channel Opener Azetukalner in Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder and Anhedonia: Neural Response to Reward, Clinical Outcomes, and Safety

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  2. Neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting are altered in a mouse model of diabetes

    Article • Communications Biology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  3. STZ-induced hyperglycemia differentially influences mitochondrial distribution and morphology in the habenulointerpeduncular circuit

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, December 2024, Frontiers

    Jessica Ables

  4. A Phase 1 single ascending dose study of pure oral harmine in healthy volunteers

    Article • Journal of Psychopharmacology, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Jessica Ables

  5. Diabetes alters neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting

    Article • January 2024, openRxiv

    Jessica Ables

  6. Understanding the habenula: A major node in circuits regulating emotion and motivation

    Article • Pharmacological Research, April 2023, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  7. Gene linked to smoking-related lung diseases may regulate the addictive properties of nicotine

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Paul Kenny, Jessica Ables, Ines Ibanez-Tallon, Paul Johnson, Stephanie Caligiuri

  8. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Nicotine Reward and Aversion

    Article • Pharmacological Reviews, January 2022, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  9. The habenular G-protein–coupled receptor 151 regulates synaptic plasticity and nicotine intake

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jessica Ables

  10. Habenular TCF7L2 links nicotine addiction to diabetes

    Article • Nature, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables, Zichen Wang

  11. The Habenular Receptor GPR151 Regulates Addiction Vulnerability Across Drug Classes

    Article • July 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Jessica Ables

  12. F67. Exploring the Role of the Habenular-Interpeduncular Circuit in Affective States in Diabetes

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, May 2019, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  13. Retrograde inhibition by a specific subset of interpeduncular α5 nicotinic neurons regulates nicotine preference

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jessica Ables

  14. Letter to the Editor: Electrode placement in electroconvulsive therapy – bilateral is still the ‘gold standard’ for some patients

    Article • Psychological Medicine, March 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Jessica Ables

  15. The habenulo-interpeduncular pathway in nicotine aversion and withdrawal

    Article • Neuropharmacology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  16. Excitatory transmission at thalamo-striatal synapses mediates susceptibility to social stress

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  17. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Distinct roles of segregated transmission of the septo-habenular pathway in anxiety and fear.

    Article • January 2014, F1000Research

    Jessica Ables

  18. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Activation of GABAergic neurons in the interpeduncular nucleus triggers physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

    Article • January 2014, F1000Research

    Jessica Ables

  19. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Cell-type-specific modulation of neocortical activity by basal forebrain input.

    Article • January 2014, F1000Research

    Jessica Ables

  20. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A unique population of ventral tegmental area neurons inhibits the lateral habenula to promote reward.

    Article • January 2014, F1000Research

    Jessica Ables

  21. Habenular expression of rare missense variants of the β4 nicotinic receptor subunit alters nicotine consumption

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Jessica Ables

  22. Smoking-Related Genes and Functional Consequences

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  23. Pacemaking of midbrain habenular cholinergic neurons in nicotine withdrawal

    Article • Biochemical Pharmacology, October 2013, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  24. Reexposure to nicotine during withdrawal increases the pacemaking activity of cholinergic habenular neurons

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jessica Ables

  25. In vivocontribution of nestin- and GLAST-lineage cells to adult hippocampal neurogenesis

    Article • Hippocampus, May 2013, Wiley

    Jessica Ables

  26. Epigenetic regulation of RAC1 induces synaptic remodeling in stress disorders and depression

    Article • Nature Medicine, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  27. Not(ch) just development: Notch signalling in the adult brain

    Article • Nature Reviews Neuroscience, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  28. Ascl1 (Mash1) Defines Cells with Long-Term Neurogenic Potential in Subgranular and Subventricular Zones in Adult Mouse Brain

    Article • PLOS One, March 2011, PLOS

    Jessica Ables

  29. I B Kinase Regulates Social Defeat Stress-Induced Synaptic and Behavioral Plasticity

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, January 2011, Society for Neuroscience

    Jessica Ables

  30. Notch1 Is Required for Maintenance of the Reservoir of Adult Hippocampal Stem Cells

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, August 2010, Society for Neuroscience

    Jessica Ables

  31. Neurod1 is essential for the survival and maturation of adult-born neurons

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jessica Ables

  32. Cell-intrinsic signals that regulate adult neurogenesis in vivo: insights from inducible approaches

    Article • BMB Reports, May 2009, Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - BMB Reports

    Jessica Ables

  33. Neurotrophic factors and structural plasticity in addiction

    Article • Neuropharmacology, January 2009, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  34. AKT Signaling within the Ventral Tegmental Area Regulates Cellular and Behavioral Responses to Stressful Stimuli

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, October 2008, Elsevier

    Jessica Ables

  35. Dynamic Contribution of Nestin-Expressing Stem Cells to Adult Neurogenesis

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, November 2007, Society for Neuroscience

    Jessica Ables