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Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS Scales.

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A Systematic Method for Clinical Description and Classification of Personality Variants

1987 • 3,661 citations

Neurobiology of the structure of personality: Dopamine, facilitation of incentive motivation, and extraversion

1999 • 1,997 citations

Placebo-Induced Changes in fMRI in the Anticipation and Experience of Pain

2004 • 1,961 citations

Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking

1996 • 1,831 citations

Placebo and Opioid Analgesia-- Imaging a Shared Neuronal Network

2002 • 1,466 citations

Expectation and Dopamine Release: Mechanism of the Placebo Effect in Parkinson's Disease

2001 • 950 citations

Keeping pain out of mind: the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in pain modulation

2003 • 895 citations

The Importance of Placebo Effects in Pain Treatment and Research

1994 • 851 citations

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

2000 • 760 citations

Placebo Effects Mediated by Endogenous Opioid Activity on μ-Opioid Receptors

2005 • 754 citations

Neuronal activity in primate dorsolateral and orbital prefrontal cortex during performance of a reward preference task

2003 • 627 citations

Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS Scales.

1994 • 624 citations

Placebo and Nocebo Effects Are Defined by Opposite Opioid and Dopaminergic Responses

2008 • 611 citations

Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients: Premature Aging of the Brain?

2007 • 588 citations

Individual Differences in Reward Drive Predict Neural Responses to Images of Food

2006 • 583 citations

An analysis of factors that contribute to the magnitude of placebo analgesia in an experimental paradigm

1999 • 560 citations

Mechanisms of placebo analgesia: rACC recruitment of a subcortical antinociceptive network

2005 • 558 citations

Placebo effects on human μ-opioid activity during pain

2007 • 535 citations

Reward Circuitry Activation by Noxious Thermal Stimuli

2001 • 490 citations

Voxel-Based Morphometry

2007 • 452 citations

Individual Differences in Reward Responding Explain Placebo-Induced Expectations and Effects

2007 • 447 citations

Opioid site in nucleus accumbens shell mediates eating and hedonic ‘liking’ for food: map based on microinjection Fos plumes

2000 • 399 citations

Effects of odors on pain perception: deciphering the roles of emotion and attention

2003 • 342 citations

Relationships Among Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release, Cortisol Secretion, and Subjective Responses to Amphetamine

2005 • 309 citations

Anterolateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Analgesic Effect of Expected and Perceived Control over Pain

2006 • 308 citations

Individual differences in extraversion and dopamine genetics predict neural reward responses

2005 • 265 citations

Individual differences in trait anhedonia: a structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging study in non-clinical subjects

2007 • 250 citations

Gene–gene interaction associated with neural reward sensitivity

2007 • 246 citations

An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system

2008 • 244 citations

The contribution of suggestibility and expectation to placebo analgesia phenomenon in an experimental setting

2002 • 241 citations

Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Insular Cortex and the Personality Trait of Novelty Seeking

2001 • 188 citations

Executive dysfunction in early stages of Huntington's disease is associated with striatal and insular atrophy: A neuropsychological and voxel-based morphometric study

2005 • 181 citations

Increased gray matter density in young women with chronic vulvar pain

2008 • 181 citations

Dopamine Reuptake Inhibition in the Rostral Agranular Insular Cortex Produces Antinociception

1999 • 149 citations

Pain and the Placebo: What We Have Learned

2005 • 137 citations

Dopamine Increases Inhibition in the Monkey Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex through Cell Type-Specific Modulation of Interneurons

2006 • 121 citations

The relationship between dorsolateral prefrontal N-acetylaspartate measures and striatal dopamine activity in schizophrenia

1999 • 110 citations

Dopaminergic input to GABAergic neurons in the rostral agranular insular cortex of the rat

2003 • 106 citations

Volume of left amygdala subregion predicted temperamental trait of harm avoidance in female young subjects. A voxel-based morphometry study

2006 • 80 citations

Strain differences in the rewarding and dopamine-releasing effects of morphine in rats

1995 • 78 citations

Opioid Receptor PET Reveals the Psychobiologic Correlates of Reward Processing

2008 • 58 citations

The Relationship Between Gray Matter Morphometry and Neuropsychological Performance in a Large Sample of Cognitively Healthy Adults

2007 • 55 citations

Antinociceptive mechanism of l-DOPA

2004 • 52 citations

Effects of intravenous placebo with glucose expectation on human basal ganglia dopaminergic function

2008 • 39 citations

Amphetamine-induced analgesia does not involve brain opioids

1984 • 24 citations

Positive correlation between medial prefrontal activity and trait anhedonia severity during the processing of positive information in non-clinical subjects

2007 • 24 citations