Evidence for motivational effects elicited by activation of GABA-A or dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell

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1997 • 1,445 citations

Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat

1991 • 1,186 citations

Progressive Ratio as a Measure of Reward Strength

1961 • 1,108 citations

On the significance of subterritories in the “accumbens” part of the rat ventral striatum

1992 • 1,022 citations

Intra-Accumbens Amphetamine Increases the Conditioned Incentive Salience of Sucrose Reward: Enhancement of Reward “Wanting” without Enhanced “Liking” or Response Reinforcement

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Corticostriatal-hypothalamic circuitry and food motivation: Integration of energy, action and reward

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2002 • 387 citations

GABA in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell Participates in the Central Regulation of Feeding Behavior

1997 • 385 citations

Evidence of a Functional Relationship between the Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Lateral Hypothalamus Subserving the Control of Feeding Behavior

1999 • 310 citations

Discrete neurochemical coding of distinguishable motivational processes: insights from nucleus accumbens control of feeding

2007 • 310 citations

EFFECTS OF INCREMENT SIZE AND REINFORCER VOLUME ON PROGRESSIVE RATIO PERFORMANCE

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Effects of Dopamine Antagonists and Accumbens Dopamine Depletions on Time-Constrained Progressive-Ratio Performance

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The structural basis for mapping behavior onto the ventral striatum and its subdivisions

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The efferent projections of the nucleus accumbens in the rat

1977 • 146 citations

Appetite-inducing accumbens manipulation activates hypothalamic orexin neurons and inhibits POMC neurons

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Feeding induced by GABA-sub(A ) receptor stimulation within the nucleus accumbens shell: Regional mapping and characterization of macronutrient and taste preference.

1999 • 130 citations

Feeding induced by GABAA receptor stimulation within the nucleus accumbens shell: Regional mapping and characterization of macronutrient and taste preference.

1999 • 116 citations

Post-weaning housing conditions influence the behavioural effects of cocaine and d -amphetamine

1997 • 111 citations

Centrally administered orexin A increases motivation for sweet pellets in rats

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Reinforcement Value of Gustatory Stimuli Determined by Progressive Ratio Performance

1999 • 93 citations

Increases in food intake or food-seeking behavior induced by GABAergic, opioid, or dopaminergic stimulation of the nucleus accumbens: is it hunger?

2004 • 91 citations

Effects of neuropeptide Y, insulin, 2-deoxyglucose, and food deprivation on food-motivated behavior

1995 • 85 citations

Reinforcer Magnitude and Progressive Ratio Responding in the Rat: Effects of Increased Effort, Prefeeding, and Extinction

1993 • 85 citations

The progressive ratio schedule as a model for studying the psychomotor stimulant activity of drugs in the rat

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Progressive ratio performance varies with body weight in rats

1997 • 49 citations

Activation of feeding-related neural circuitry after unilateral injections of muscimol into the nucleus accumbens shell

2005 • 47 citations

Appetite and Body Weight: Integrative Systems and the Development of Anti-Obesity Drugs

2007 • 44 citations

Appetite and body weight : integrative systems and the development of anti-obesity drugs

2007 • 36 citations

NPY mediates the feeding elicited by muscimol injections into the nucleus accumbens shell

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2007 • 12 citations