Nick Hollon

Title(s)	Assistant Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry
School	Vc-health Sciences-schools
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
ORCID	0000-0003-4827-1582
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Research

Research Activities and Funding

Substantia nigra circuits in instrumental action
NIH R01NS138598Sep 4, 2024 - Aug 31, 2029
Role: Principal Investigator

Stress effects on circuitry regulating nigrostriatal dopamine during goal-directed action
NIH R00MH119312Sep 15, 2022 - Jun 30, 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

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Publications

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Ventral pallidum GABA and glutamate neurons drive approach and avoidance through distinct modulation of VTA cell types. Nat Commun. 2024 May 18; 15(1):4233. Faget L, Oriol L, Lee WC, Zell V, Sargent C, Flores A, Hollon NG, Ramanathan D, Hnasko TS. PMID: 38762463; PMCID: PMC11102457.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Mesoaccumbal glutamate neurons drive reward via glutamate release but aversion via dopamine co-release. Neuron. 2024 Feb 07; 112(3):488-499.e5. Warlow SM, Singhal SM, Hollon NG, Faget L, Dowlat DS, Zell V, Hunker AC, Zweifel LS, Hnasko TS. PMID: 38086374; PMCID: PMC10922836.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
Nigrostriatal dopamine signals sequence-specific action-outcome prediction errors. Curr Biol. 2021 12 06; 31(23):5350-5363.e5. Hollon NG, Williams EW, Howard CD, Li H, Traut TI, Jin X. PMID: 34637751; PMCID: PMC8665080.

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Bio Biology
Translation:Animals
Optogenetic stimulation of striatal patches modifies habit formation and inhibits dopamine release. Sci Rep. 2021 10 06; 11(1):19847. Nadel JA, Pawelko SS, Scott JR, McLaughlin R, Fox M, Ghanem M, van der Merwe R, Hollon NG, Ramsson ES, Howard CD. PMID: 34615966; PMCID: PMC8494762.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals
VTA Glutamate Neuron Activity Drives Positive Reinforcement Absent Dopamine Co-release. Neuron. 2020 09 09; 107(5):864-873.e4. Zell V, Steinkellner T, Hollon NG, Warlow SM, Souter E, Faget L, Hunker AC, Jin X, Zweifel LS, Hnasko TS. PMID: 32610039; PMCID: PMC7780844.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
Neural Implementation of Behavioral Hierarchy. Neuron. 2020 02 05; 105(3):402-404. Hollon NG, Jin X. PMID: 32027829.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Genetic-Based Dissection Unveils the Inputs and Outputs of Striatal Patch and Matrix Compartments. Neuron. 2016 Sep 07; 91(5):1069-1084. Smith JB, Klug JR, Ross DL, Howard CD, Hollon NG, Ko VI, Hoffman H, Callaway EM, Gerfen CR, Jin X. PMID: 27568516; PMCID: PMC5017922.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals Cells
Learning from other people's fear: amygdala-based social reference learning in social anxiety disorder. Psychol Med. 2016 10; 46(14):2943-2953. Blair KS, Otero M, Teng C, Geraci M, Lewis E, Hollon N, Blair RJ, Ernst M, Grillon C, Pine DS. PMID: 27476529; PMCID: PMC5063696.

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Psy Psychology
Translation:Humans
Neuroscience: Making risk-takers settle. Nature. 2016 Mar 31; 531(7596):588-9. Hollon NG, Phillips PE. PMID: 27007851.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Stress effects on the neural substrates of motivated behavior. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Oct; 18(10):1405-12. Hollon NG, Burgeno LM, Phillips PE. PMID: 26404715; PMCID: PMC4721524.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans Animals
Dopamine-associated cached values are not sufficient as the basis for action selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Dec 23; 111(51):18357-62. Hollon NG, Arnold MM, Gan JO, Walton ME, Phillips PE. PMID: 25489094; PMCID: PMC4280640.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals
Phasic dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens in response to pro-social 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats. J Neurosci. 2014 Aug 06; 34(32):10616-23. Willuhn I, Tose A, Wanat MJ, Hart AS, Hollon NG, Phillips PE, Schwarting RK, Wöhr M. PMID: 25100595; PMCID: PMC4200110.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals
Dopaminergic prediction errors persevere in the nucleus accumbens core during negative reinforcement. J Neurosci. 2013 Feb 20; 33(8):3253-5. Hollon NG, Soden ME, Wanat MJ. PMID: 23426653; PMCID: PMC3608139.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Animals
Severe stress switches CRF action in the nucleus accumbens from appetitive to aversive. Nature. 2012 Oct 18; 490(7420):402-6. Lemos JC, Wanat MJ, Smith JS, Reyes BA, Hollon NG, Van Bockstaele EJ, Chavkin C, Phillips PE. PMID: 22992525; PMCID: PMC3475726.

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Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Pavlovian valuation systems in learning and decision making. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2012 Dec; 22(6):1054-61. Clark JJ, Hollon NG, Phillips PE. PMID: 22749132; PMCID: PMC3465491.

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Bio Biology Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans Animals
Reduced dorsal anterior cingulate cortical activity during emotional regulation and top-down attentional control in generalized social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and comorbid generalized social phobia/generalized anxiety disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Sep 15; 72(6):476-82. Blair KS, Geraci M, Smith BW, Hollon N, DeVido J, Otero M, Blair JR, Pine DS. PMID: 22592057; PMCID: PMC3424322.

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Psy Psychiatry Psy Psychophysiology
Translation:Humans
Social norm processing in adult social phobia: atypically increased ventromedial frontal cortex responsiveness to unintentional (embarrassing) transgressions. Am J Psychiatry. 2010 Dec; 167(12):1526-32. Blair KS, Geraci M, Hollon N, Otero M, DeVido J, Majestic C, Jacobs M, Blair RJ, Pine DS. PMID: 20889651; PMCID: PMC3175630.

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Psy Psychiatry
Translation:Humans
Available alternative incentives modulate anticipatory nucleus accumbens activation. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2009 Dec; 4(4):409-16. Cooper JC, Hollon NG, Wimmer GE, Knutson B. PMID: 19843618; PMCID: PMC2799954.

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Neu Neurology Soc Social Sciences
Translation:Humans
Interdependent self-construal and neural representations of self and mother. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2010 Jun; 5(2-3):318-23. Ray RD, Shelton AL, Hollon NG, Matsumoto D, Frankel CB, Gross JJ, Gabrieli JD. PMID: 19822601; PMCID: PMC2894675.

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Neu Neurology Soc Social Sciences
Translation:Humans
Cognitive and neural development of individuated self-representation in children. Child Dev. 2009 Jul-Aug; 80(4):1232-42. Ray RD, Shelton AL, Hollon NG, Michel BD, Frankel CB, Gross JJ, Gabrieli JD. PMID: 19630904; PMCID: PMC4138977.

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Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans
Stimulus-reinforcement-based decision making and anxiety: impairment in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) but not in generalized social phobia (GSP). Psychol Med. 2009 Jul; 39(7):1153-61. DeVido J, Jones M, Geraci M, Hollon N, Blair RJ, Pine DS, Blair K. PMID: 19102795; PMCID: PMC2999404.

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Psy Psychology
Translation:Humans
Neural response to self- and other referential praise and criticism in generalized social phobia. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008 Oct; 65(10):1176-84. Blair K, Geraci M, Devido J, McCaffrey D, Chen G, Vythilingam M, Ng P, Hollon N, Jones M, Blair RJ, Pine DS. PMID: 18838634; PMCID: PMC2785901.

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Psy Psychiatry
Translation:Humans
Neural antecedents of the endowment effect. Neuron. 2008 Jun 12; 58(5):814-22. Knutson B, Wimmer GE, Rick S, Hollon NG, Prelec D, Loewenstein G. PMID: 18549791.

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Neu Neurology
Translation:Humans
Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning. Psychol Sci. 2008 Apr; 19(4):320-3. Samanez-Larkin GR, Hollon NG, Carstensen LL, Knutson B. PMID: 18399882; PMCID: PMC2365707.

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Psy Psychology
Translation:Humans