Bryan D. Alvarez
Psychology · The Ohio State University
Publications
30
Citations
196
Est. group size
~4
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
21
Publishing since 2006
Bryan D. Alvarez studies how diet, aging, drugs (like opioids), and brain chemistry (especially serotonin receptors) affect memory, learning, and flexible behavior, primarily using rodent models. Recent work examines how high-fat or processed diets, surgery-related drugs, and inflammation harm memory and brain function in aged animals, as well as how manipulating serotonin receptors influences learning flexibility and repetitive behaviors. Earlier work also touched on human perception and learning, including how people with synesthesia (a condition linking senses, such as seeing colors for letters) learn statistical patterns.
Publication output was low or absent in the mid-2010s but has grown notably since 2022, with the most recent years (2025-2026) showing the highest activity.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Short-term high-fat diet impairs anterograde and retrograde memory consolidation, but not retrieval in aged rats
Neuroscience · 2026
- Disruption of hippocampal mitochondrial function underlies opioid-induced postoperative cognitive dysfunction in aged rats
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
- Obesity-associated memory impairment and neuroinflammation precede widespread peripheral perturbations in aged rats
Immunity & Ageing · 2025
- Ligature-induced periodontitis in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease dysregulates neuroinflammation, exacerbates cognitive impairment, and accelerates amyloid pathology
Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health · 2025
- The aged amygdala’s unique sensitivity to refined diets, independent of fat or sugar content: A brain region and cell type-specific analysis
Brain Behavior and Immunity · 2025
- Repeated 5-HT6 receptor activation facilitates flexible behavior in C57BL/6J mice
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 2025
- Consumption of refined-ingredient diets impair long-term memory independent of macronutrient composition in aged rats
Brain Behavior and Immunity · 2024
- Post-surgical morphine induces long-lasting spatial memory deficits in aged female rats
Brain Behavior and Immunity · 2023
- Impact of specific serotonin receptor modulation on restricted repetitive behaviors
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · 2022
- Impairments in operant probabilistic reversal learning in BTBR T+tf/J male and female mice
Behavioural Brain Research · 2022
- Acute serotonin 1B/1A receptor activation impairs behavioral flexibility in C57BL/6J mice
Behavioural Brain Research · 2022
- Impact of specific serotonin receptor modulation on behavioral flexibility
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 2021
- Unsupervised categorization as similarity-based generalization.
eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2020
- Superior learning in synesthetes: Consistent grapheme-color associations facilitate statistical learning
Cognition · 2019
- Brain Behavior and Immunity×3
- Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior×2
- Behavioural Brain Research×2
- Immunity & Ageing×1
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience×1
- Hans Colonius
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Christopher W. Robinson
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Adele Diederich
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jennifer Schumaker
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Natalya Kaganovich
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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