
Sergios Charntikov
Courses Taught
- BMS 799H: Senior Honors Thesis
- INCO 590: Student Research Experience
- NSB 799H: Honors Senior Thesis
- PSYC 502: Research Methods in Psychology
- PSYC 741W: SpcTop/Fund of Substance Abuse
- PSYC 894: Advanced Research
- PSYC 933: Adv Sem/Physiological Psych
- PSYC 991: Pract&Sem/Teaching Psychology
- PSYC 999: Doctoral Research
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Nebraska
- M.A., General Experimental Psychology, California State University
- B.A., Psychology, California State University
Research Interests
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Drug addiction
- Heroin
- Learning with drug states
- Methamphetamine
- Nicotine
- Pharmacology
Selected Publications
Robison, C. L., Kazan, T., Miller, R. L. A., Allen, T., Hensley, J. S., & Charntikov, S. (2025). Topographical Organization of Prefrontal Cortex and Adjacent Areas Projections to the Dorsomedial Caudate-Putamen in Rats: A Retrograde Tracing Study.. Brain Sci, 15(4). doi:10.3390/brainsci15040398
Robison, C. L., Madore, V., Cova, N., Karbalivand, M., Elsawa, S. F., & Charntikov, S. (2025). Differential Gene Expression in the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus Following Long-Access Methamphetamine Self-Administration in Male Rats.. Int J Mol Sci, 26(4). doi:10.3390/ijms26041400
Suarez, M., Charntikov, S., Huynh, Y. W., Barrett, S. T., Bevins, R. A., & Wakabayashi, K. T. (2024). "A robust and simple catheter connector assembly for long-term self-administration experiments".. MethodsX, 12, 102675. doi:10.1016/j.mex.2024.102675
Robison, C. L., Madore, V., Cova, N., Drugan, R. C., & Charntikov, S. (2024). Individual corticosterone response to intermittent swim stress predicts a shift in economic demand for ethanol from pre- stress to post-stress in male rats.. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.02.26.582066
Robison, C. L., Cova, N., Madore, V., Allen, T., Barrett, S., & Charntikov, S. (2023). Assessment of ethanol and nicotine interactions using a reinforcer demand modeling with grouped and individual levels of analyses in a long-access self-administration model using male rats.. Front Behav Neurosci, 17, 1291128. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1291128
Charntikov, S., Pittenger, S. T., Thapa, I., Bastola, D. R., Bevins, R. A., & Pendyala, G. (2015). Ibudilast reverses the decrease in the synaptic signaling protein phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 1 (PEBP1) produced by chronic methamphetamine intake in rats. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, 152, 15-23. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.04.012
Chamtikov, S., Swalve, N., Pittenger, S., Fink, K., Schepers, S., Hadlock, G. C., . . . Bevins, R. A. (2013). Iptakalim attenuates self-administration and acquired goal-tracking behavior controlled by nicotine. NEUROPHARMACOLOGY, 75, 138-144. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.07.019
Bevins, R. A., Barrett, S. T., Polewan, R. J., Pittenger, S. T., Swalve, N., & Charntikov, S. (2012). Disentangling the nature of the nicotine stimulus. BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES, 90(1), 28-33. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.020
Iniguez, S. D., Charntikov, S., Baella, S. A., Herbert, M. S., Bolanos-Guzman, C. A., & Crawford, C. A. (2012). Post-training cocaine exposure facilitates spatial memory consolidation in C57BL/6 mice. HIPPOCAMPUS, 22(4), 802-813. doi:10.1002/hipo.20941
Charntikov, S., Der-Ghazarian, T., Herbert, M. S., Horn, L. R., Widarma, C. B., Gutierrez, A., . . . McDougall, S. A. (2011). IMPORTANCE OF D1 AND D2 RECEPTORS IN THE DORSAL CAUDATE-PUTAMEN FOR THE LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY AND STEREOTYPED BEHAVIORS OF PREWEANLING RATS. NEUROSCIENCE, 183, 121-133. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.03.037