A Neuropsychological Theory of Anxiety

Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.

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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

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Stereotaxic Mapping of the Monoamine Pathways in the Rat Brain*

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The Behavior of Organisms

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The psychology of fear and stress

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Handbook of Psychopharmacology

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The Psychology of Animal Learning

1976 • 2,451 citations

The psychology of animal learning

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Learning Theory and Behavior

1962 • 1,634 citations

Learning theory and behavior.

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Behavior Theory and Conditioning

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6-hydroxy-dopamine induced degeneration of central monoamine neurons

1968 • 1,419 citations

Some quantitative properties of anxiety.

1941 • 1,366 citations

The hippocampus and behavior.

1967 • 1,118 citations

Handbook of Psychopharmacology

1978 • 1,034 citations

Harvard educational review

1965 • 1,016 citations

Frustrative nonreward in partial reinforcement and discrimination learning: Some recent history and a theoretical extension.

1962 • 966 citations

On the dual nature of learning—a re-interpretation of "conditioning" and "problem-solving."

1947 • 942 citations

Elements of a two-process theory of learning

1975 • 850 citations

Behavior theory and conditioning.

1956 • 848 citations

Aversive Conditioning and Learning

1971 • 764 citations

Progress in physiological psychology

1966 • 747 citations

The Emotions: Facts, Theories and a New Model

1964 • 713 citations

A Sequential Hypothesis of Instrumental Learning

1967 • 531 citations

Patterns of Emotions: A New Analysis of Anxiety and Depression

1972 • 529 citations

Studies of fear as an acquirable drive: I. Fear as motivation and fear-reduction as reinforcement in the learning of new responses.

1948 • 520 citations

The hippocampus and behavioral maturation

1973 • 456 citations

Motivational properties of frustration: I. Effect on a running response of the addition of frustration to the motivational complex.

1952 • 456 citations

Efferent connections of the septal area in the rat: An analysis utilizing retrograde and anterograde transport methods

1977 • 443 citations

Analysis of behavioral change

1968 • 412 citations

AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFERENT PROJECTION OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS

1966 • 397 citations

Drug Effects on Fear and Frustration: Possible Limbic Site of Action of Minor Tranquilizers

1977 • 372 citations

Principles of behavioral analysis

1967 • 371 citations

The Maudsley Reactive and Nonreactive strains of rats: A survey

1975 • 344 citations

Physiology, Emotion and Psychosomatic Illness

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Drug Action on The Electrical Activity of The Hippocampus

1965 • 312 citations

The Role of Pleasure in Behavior

1965 • 305 citations

Effects of Chronic Exposure to Stressors on Avoidance-Escape Behavior and on Brain Norepinephrine*

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Minor tranquillizers, stress and central catecholamine neurons

1971 • 279 citations

Sodium amobarbital, the hippocampal theta rhythm, and the partial reinforcement extinction effect.

1970 • 264 citations

Impaired Learning and Decreased Cortical Norepinephrine after Bilateral Locus Coeruleus Lesions

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Learning in the absence of forebrain noradrenaline

1975 • 262 citations

Hippocampal Rhythmic Slow Activity and Neocortical Low-Voltage Fast Activity: Relations to Behavior

1975 • 257 citations

The Septal Nuclei

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Molecular and functional neurobiology

1976 • 225 citations

Current research in motivation

1966 • 223 citations

Effects of selective forebrain noradrenaline loss on behavioral inhibition in the rat.

1977 • 217 citations

Effect of minor tranquillisers on hippocampal θ rhythm mimicked by depletion of forebrain noradrenaline

1975 • 185 citations

Resistance to punishment and extinction following training with shock or nonreinforcement.

1964 • 169 citations

Performance in different segments of an instrumental response chain as a function of reinforcement schedule.

1959 • 159 citations

Sodium amobarbital and effects of frustrative nonreward.

1969 • 158 citations

Frequency-Specific Relation between Hippocampal Theta Rhythm, Behavior, and Amobarbital Action

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The brain and reward

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Proceedings of the American Psychological Association

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Sodium Amylobarbitone and Responses to Nonreward*

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Slam on the brakes: A critique of Altman, Brunner, and Bayer's response-inhibition model of hippocampal function

1975 • 143 citations

Septal driving of hippocampal theta rhythm as a function of frequency in the male rat: Effects of drugs

1977 • 142 citations

Septal driving of hippocampal theta rhythm as a function of frequency in the free-moving male rat

1977 • 139 citations

Persistence of runway performance after septal lesions in rats.

1974 • 133 citations

Barbiturates and meprobamate: Decreases in catecholamine turnover of central dopamine and noradrenaline neuronal systems and the influence of immobilization stress

1972 • 130 citations

The Avoidance Learning Problem

1972 • 120 citations

Expectancy and the Pituitary — Adrenal System

1972 • 115 citations

Effects of septal driving of the hippocampal theta rhythm on resistance to extinction

1972 • 105 citations

Medial septal lesions, hippocampal theta rhythm and the control of vibrissal movement in the freely moving rat

1971 • 97 citations

Behavioral and physiological studies of septal function and related medial cortical structures

1973 • 88 citations

Sex and strain differences in septal driving of the hippocampal theta rhythm as a function of frequency: Effects of gonadectomy and gonadal hormones

1977 • 87 citations

Interaction of amobarbital sodium and reinforcement schedule in determining resistance to extinction of an instrumental running response.

1969 • 74 citations

An analysis of the effects of septal lesions on negatively reinforced behavior

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Sodium amytal and partially reinforced runway performance.

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The Role of Attention in the Disinhibition of Displacement Activities

1966 • 57 citations

MOTIVATIONAL PROPERTIES OF FRUSTRATION

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Instrumental conditioning of hippocampal theta and subsequent response persistence.

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Acquisition of a simple running response as a function of partial and continuous schedules of reinforcement

1959 • 52 citations

The partial reinforcement extinction effect in rats with medial septal lesions

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Rapid Extinction following Drug-inhibited Incidental Learning

1967 • 51 citations

Theoretical and experimental bases of the behaviour therapies

1977 • 46 citations

Partial Reinforcement and Breadth of Learning

1966 • 37 citations

Psychogenetics and psychopharmacology

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Resistance to extinction after partial reinforcement training with blocking of the hippocampal theta rhythm by septal stimulation

1972 • 31 citations

Amytal and the small trial partial reinforcement effect: Stimulus properties of early trial nonrewards.

1971 • 31 citations

A Functional Analysis of the Septal Nuclei

1976 • 30 citations

1. Current Research on Motivation

1958 • 29 citations

Hippocampal and cortical activity during sexual behavior in the female rat.

1975 • 27 citations

Normal jump avoidance performance in rats with the hippocampal theta rhythm selectively disrupted

1975 • 24 citations

Theoretical and experimental bases of the behaviour therapies

1976 • 24 citations

Amobarbital and the partial reinforcement effect in rats: Isolating frustrative control over instrumental responding.

1971 • 21 citations

Effects of ethanol and partial reinforcement upon runway acquisition

1965 • 19 citations

The Septal Nuclei

1976 • 16 citations

Effects of amobarbital on discrimination acquisition and reversal

1967 • 14 citations

EFFECT OF CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE UPON PARTIALLY-REINFORCED BEHAVIOR OF RATS IN THE STRAIGHT RUNWAY

1966 • 11 citations

Relationship between hippocampal EEG, novelty, and frustration in the rat

1974 • 11 citations