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2001 • 3,867 citations

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1991 • 3,177 citations

Drug Addiction, Dysregulation of Reward, and Allostasis

2001 • 2,820 citations

Dopamine transmission in the initiation and expression of drug- and stress-induced sensitization of motor activity

1991 • 2,025 citations

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2001 • 1,084 citations

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1998 • 936 citations

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1983 • 925 citations

The control of firing pattern in nigral dopamine neurons: single spike firing

1984 • 856 citations

Prefrontal cortical efferents in the rat synapse on unlabeled neuronal targets of catecholamine terminals in the nucleus accumbens septi and on dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area

1992 • 832 citations

The role of divalent cations in the N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate responses of mouse central neurones in culture.

1988 • 810 citations

Efferent projections of the subthalamic nucleus in the rat: Light and electron microscopic analysis with the PHA‐L method

1987 • 580 citations

Afferent projections to the ventral tegmental area of Tsai and interfascicular nucleus: A horseradish peroxidase study in the rat

1979 • 550 citations

Dopamine ?Autoreceptors?: Pharmacological characterization by microiontophoretic single cell recording studies

1977 • 544 citations

Afferent connections of the laterodorsal and the pedunculopontine tegmental nuclei in the rat: A retro‐ and antero‐grade transport and immunohistochemical study

1992 • 535 citations

Antidromic identification of dopaminergic and other output neurons of the rat substantia nigra

1978 • 498 citations

Noradrenaline in the ventral forebrain is critical for opiate withdrawal-induced aversion

2000 • 455 citations

Burst Firing in Dopamine Neurons Induced by N -Methyl-D-aspartate: Role of Electrogenic Sodium Pump

1992 • 433 citations

Electrophysiological Characterization of GABAergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area

1998 • 387 citations

The pharmacology of mesolimbic dopamine neurons: a dual-probe microdialysis study in the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens of the rat brain

1996 • 376 citations

Involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor stimulation in the ventral tegmental area and amygdala in behavioral sensitization to cocaine.

1993 • 368 citations

Tonic Activation of NMDA Receptors Causes Spontaneous Burst Discharge of Rat Midbrain Dopamine Neurons In Vivo

1993 • 350 citations

Projections of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the mesencephalon, pons, and medulla oblongata in the cat

1985 • 340 citations

Afferent projections to the rat locus coeruleus demonstrated by retrograde and anterograde tracing with cholera-toxin B subunit and Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin

1995 • 334 citations

Properties and Plasticity of Excitatory Synapses on Dopaminergic and GABAergic Cells in the Ventral Tegmental Area

1999 • 317 citations

Relationship between dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens and the discharge activity of dopaminergic neurons during local in vivo application of amino acids in the ventral tegmental area

1992 • 315 citations

Potent excitatory influence of prefrontal cortex activity on noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons

1998 • 298 citations

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1986 • 298 citations

Synaptic Regulation of Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Neurons

1996 • 289 citations

Electrophysiological properties of identified output neurons of the rat substantia nigra (pars compacta and pars reticulata): Evidences for the existence of branched neurons

1978 • 284 citations

Dopamine microdialysis in the nucleus accumbens during acute and chronic morphine, naloxone-precipitated withdrawal and clonidine treatment

1991 • 282 citations

Opiate withdrawal-induced hyperactivity of locus coeruleus neurons is substantially mediated by augmented excitatory amino acid input

1991 • 269 citations

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1998 • 256 citations

Ultrastructural Localization of the Vesicular Monoamine Transporter-2 in Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons: Potential Sites for Somatodendritic Storage and Release of Dopamine

1996 • 239 citations

Dopamine-containing neurons in the mammalian central nervous system: Electrophysiology and pharmacology

1988 • 233 citations

Depression of Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission and Sensitization to Morphine During Opiate Abstinence

1992 • 224 citations

Iontophoretically administered drugs acting at the N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor modulate burst firing in A9 dopamine neurons in the rat

1992 • 219 citations

Involvement of D2 dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens in the opiate withdrawal syndrome

1994 • 214 citations

Presynaptic Effects of NMDA in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells and Interneurons

1999 • 202 citations

Topographical distribution of possible glutamatergic pathways from the frontal cortex to the striatum and substantia nigra in rats

1982 • 171 citations

Potent Regulation of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons by the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis

2001 • 167 citations

The pharmacology of mesocortical dopamine neurons: a dual-probe microdialysis study in the ventral tegmental area and prefrontal cortex of the rat brain.

1998 • 151 citations

Glutamate receptor subtypes mediate excitatory synaptic currents of dopamine neurons in midbrain slices

1991 • 145 citations

The cortico-nigral projection: reduced glutamate content in the substantia nigra following frontal cortex ablation in the rat

1984 • 133 citations

Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors in the Ventral Tegmental Area Regulate Dopamine Release in the Ventral Striatum

1996 • 130 citations

Terminals of subthalamonigral fibres are enriched with glutamate-like immunoreactivity: An electron microscopic, immunogold analysis in the cat

1993 • 123 citations

Subthalamic nucleus modulates burst firing of nigral dopamine neurones via NMDA receptors

1994 • 118 citations

Effects of apamin on the discharge properties of putative dopamine-containing neurons in vitro

1988 • 113 citations

Evidence for the presence of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors in the ventral tegmental area of the rat: an electrophysiological in vitro study

1990 • 103 citations

Regulation of GABA release via NMDA and 5-HT1A receptors in guinea pig dentate gyrus

1997 • 102 citations

Antagonism of NMDA receptors but not AMPA/kainate receptors blocks bursting in dopaminergic neurons induced by electrical stimulation of the prefrontal cortex

1996 • 96 citations

Activation of locus coeruleus by prefrontal cortex is mediated by excitatory amino acid inputs

1997 • 96 citations

Autoreceptor-mediated changes in dopaminergic terminal excitability: Effects of striatal drug infusions

1984 • 92 citations

Modulation of dopamine neuronal activity by glutamate receptor subtypes

1997 • 89 citations

Evidence that non-NMDA receptors are involved in the excitatory pathway from the pedunculopontine region to nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons

1992 • 81 citations

Microinjections of an opiate receptor antagonist into the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis suppress heroin self-administration in dependent rats

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Electrophysiological identification of neurons in locus coeruleus

1976 • 74 citations

A morphological evidence for monosynaptic projections from the nucleus tegmenti pedunculopontinus pars compacta (TPC) to nigrostriatal projection neurons

1988 • 71 citations

Autoreceptor-mediated changes in dopaminergic terminal excitability: Effects of increases in impulse flow

1984 • 66 citations

l-Glutamate excitation of A10 dopamine neurons is preferentially mediated by activation of NMDA receptors: extra- and intracellular electrophysiological studies in brain slices

1993 • 58 citations

Nucleus basalis neurons exhibit axonal branching with decreased impulse conduction velocity in rat cerebrocortex

1985 • 55 citations

Striatal Extracellular Dopamine Levels in Rats with Haloperidol-Induced Depolarization Block of Substantia Nigra Dopamine Neurons

1998 • 46 citations

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1993 • 45 citations

Synaptic Regulation of Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Neurons

1996 • 29 citations

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1991 • 29 citations

Central Stimulation of Oxytocin Release in the Lactating Rat by N-Methyl-D-Aspartate: Requirement for Coactivation through Non-NMDA Glutamate Receptors or the Glycine Coagonist Site

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