Madara, J.C., and Levine, E.S. Simultaneous presynaptic and postsynaptic effects of BDNF are mediated by NMDA Receptors. submitted.

Fortin D.A. and Levine E. S. (2006) Differential effects of endocannabinoids on glutamatergic and GABAergic inputs to layer 5 pyramidal neurons. Cerebral Cortex. Feb 8; [Epub ahead of print].

Fogal, B., Trettel, J., Uliasz, T. F., Levine, E. S., and Hewett, S. J. (2005) Changes in secondary glutamate release underlie the developmental regulation of excitotoxic neuronal cell death, Neuroscience, 132: 929-942.

Kolb, J. E., Trettel, J. and Levine, E. S. (2005) BDNF enhancement of postsynaptic NMDA receptors is blocked by ethanol. Synapse, 55: 52-57.

Fortin, D. A., Trettel, J. and Levine, E. S. (2004) Brief trains of action potentials enhance pyramidal neuron excitability via endocannabinoid-mediated suppression of inhibition. J Neurophysiology, 92:2105-2112.

Trettel J., Fortin D. A. and Levine E. S. (2004) Endocannabinoid signalling selectively targets perisomatic inhibitory inputs to pyramidal neurones in juvenile mouse neocortex. J. Physiology, 556: 95-107.

Trettel, J. and Levine, E. S. (2003) Endocannabinoids mediate rapid retrograde signaling at interneuron - pyramidal neuron synapses of the neocortex. J. Neurophysiology, 89: 2334-2338.

Trettel, J. and Levine, E. S. (2002) Cannabinoids depress inhibitory synaptic inputs received by layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons of the neocortex. J. Neurophysiology, 88: 534-539.

Levine, E. S. (2001) Neurotrophins and Hippocampal Plasticity, in Neurobiology of the Neurotrophins, I. Mocchetti (ed.), F. P. Graham Publishing, pp. 165-186.

Kolb, J. E. and Levine, E. S. (2000) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor increases activity of NR2B-containing NMDA receptors in excised patches from hippocampal neurons, J Neurosci Res, 62: 357-362.

Levine, E. S. and Black, I. B. (2000) Trophic Interactions and Neuronal Plasticity, in The New Cognitive Neurosciences, M. S. Gazzaniga (ed.), MIT Press, pp. 159-170.

Levine, E. S. and Black, I. B. (2000) Neurotrophic Factors, in Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, B. J. Sadock and V. A. Sadock (eds.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pp. 71-76.

Lin, S. Y., Wu, K., Len, G. W., Xu, J. L., Levine, E. S., Suen, P. C., Mount, H. T. J. and Black, I. B. (1999) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor enhances association of protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP1D with the NMDA receptor subunit NR2B in the cortical postsynaptic density. Mol Brain Res, 70: 18-25.

Levine, E. S., Crozier, R. A., Black, I. B. and Plummer, M. R. (1998) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor modulates hippocampal synaptic transmission by increasing N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 95: 10235-10239.

Suen, P. C., Wu, K., Xu, J. L., Lin, S. Y., Levine, E. S. and Black, I. B. (1998) NMDA receptor subunits in the postsynaptic density of rat brain: expression and phosphorylation by endogenous protein kinases. Mol Brain Res, 59: 215-228.

Lin, S. Y., Wu, K., Levine, E. S., Mount, H. T. J., Suen, P. C. and Black, I. B. (1998) BDNF acutely increases tyrosine phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor subunit 2B in cortical and hippocampal postsynaptic densities. Mol Brain Res 55: 20-27.

Levine, E. S. and Black, I. B. (1997) Trophic Factors, Synaptic Plasticity, and Memory, in Frontiers of Neurology, D. J. Reis and J. B. Posner (eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Vol. 835, pp. 12-19.

Levine, E. S., Black, I. B., and Plummer, M. R. (1997) Neurotrophin modulation of hippocampal synaptic transmission, in Advances in Pharmacology: Catecholamines, D. S. Goldstein, G. Eisenhofer, and R. McCarty (eds.), Academic Press, pp. 921-924.

Suen, P. C., Wu, K., Levine, E. S., Mount, H. T. J., Xu, J. L., Lin, S. Y. and Black, I. B. (1997) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor rapidly enhances phosphorylation of the postsynaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit 1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94: 8191-8195.

Levine, E. S., Dreyfus, C. F., Black, I. B. and Plummer, M. R. (1996) Selective role for trkB neurotrophin receptors in rapid modulation of hippocampal synaptic transmission. Mol Brain Res 38: 300-303.

Wu, K., Xu, J. L., Suen, P. C., Levine, E. S., Huang, Y. Y., Mount, H. T. J., Lin, S. Y. and Black, I. B. (1996) Functional trkB neurotrophin receptors are intrinsic components of the adult brain postsynaptic density. Mol Brain Res 43: 286-290.

Levine, E. S., Dreyfus, C. F., Black, I. B. and Plummer, M. R. (1995) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor rapidly enhances synaptic transmission in hippocampal neurons via postsynaptic tyrosine kinase receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 8074-7.

Levine, E. S., Dreyfus, C. F., Black, I. B. and Plummer, M. R. (1995) Differential effects of NGF and BDNF on voltage-gated calcium currents in embryonic basal forebrain neurons. J Neurosci 15: 3084-91.

Levine, E. S. and Jacobs, B. L. (1992) Neurochemical afferents controlling the activity of serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus: microiontophoretic studies in the awake cat. J Neurosci 12: 4037-44.

Levine, E. S. and Jacobs, B. L. (1992) Microiontophoresis and single-unit recordings of serotonergic neurons in the awake cat. J Chem Neuroanat 5: 335-7.

Jacobs, B. L., Abercrombie, E. D., Levine, E. S., Morilak, D. A., and Stafford, I. L. (1991) Single unit and physiological analyses of brain norepinephrine function in cat, in Neurobiology of the Locus Coeruleus, O. Pompeiano and C. D. Barnes (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Jacobs, B. L., Abercrombie, E. D., Fornal, C. A., Levine, E. S., Morilak, D. A. and Stafford, I. L. (1991) Single-unit and physiological analyses of brain norepinephrine function in behaving animals. Progress in Brain Research, 88:159-165.

Levine, E. S., Litto, W. J. and Jacobs, B. L. (1990) Activity of cat locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons during the defense reaction. Brain Res 531: 189-95.

Abercrombie, E. D., Levine, E. S. and Jacobs, B. L. (1988) Microinjected morphine suppresses the activity of locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons in freely moving cats. Neurosci Lett 86: 334-9.

Northmore, D. P., Levine, E. S. and Schneider, G. E. (1988) Behavior evoked by electrical stimulation of the hamster superior colliculus. Exp Brain Res 73: 595-605.