Dopamine: the salient issue

A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward

1997 • 8,991 citations

Predictive Reward Signal of Dopamine Neurons

1998 • 4,446 citations

What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience?

1998 • 3,973 citations

Dopamine, learning and motivation

2004 • 3,146 citations

Getting Formal with Dopamine and Reward

2002 • 2,558 citations

Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons

2003 • 2,034 citations

A framework for mesencephalic dopamine systems based on predictive Hebbian learning

1996 • 2,003 citations

Phasic versus tonic dopamine release and the modulation of dopamine system responsivity: A hypothesis for the etiology of schizophrenia

1991 • 1,819 citations

An opponent-process theory of motivation: I. Temporal dynamics of affect.

1974 • 1,644 citations

The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in motivated behavior: a unifying interpretation with special reference to reward-seeking

1999 • 1,420 citations

Differential Effect of Stress on In Vivo Dopamine Release in Striatum, Nucleus Accumbens, and Medial Frontal Cortex

1989 • 1,107 citations

Subsecond dopamine release promotes cocaine seeking

2003 • 1,086 citations

Selective activation of the mesocortical DA system by stress

1976 • 1,037 citations

Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory

2001 • 1,034 citations

Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms.

1986 • 998 citations

Responses of monkey dopamine neurons during learning of behavioral reactions

1992 • 986 citations

The dopamine hypothesis of reward: past and current status

1999 • 981 citations

Mesolimbocortical and nigrostriatal dopamine responses to salient non-reward events

2000 • 962 citations

Intracellular and extracellular electrophysiology of nigral dopaminergic neurons—1. Identification and characterization

1983 • 925 citations

Information Processing in Animals

2014 • 900 citations

Preferential activation of midbrain dopamine neurons by appetitive rather than aversive stimuli

1996 • 826 citations

Opponent interactions between serotonin and dopamine

2002 • 821 citations

Uniform Inhibition of Dopamine Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area by Aversive Stimuli

2004 • 778 citations

Dopamine Operates as a Subsecond Modulator of Food Seeking

2004 • 686 citations

The involvement of nucleus accumbens dopamine in appetitive and aversive motivation

1994 • 580 citations

Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons

2001 • 569 citations

Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?

1999 • 514 citations

Dopamine: generalization and bonuses

2002 • 479 citations

An Opponent-Process Theory of Motivation

2008 • 470 citations

A computational substrate for incentive salience

2003 • 421 citations

Differential Expression of Motivational Stimulus Properties by Dopamine in Nucleus Accumbens Shell versus Core and Prefrontal Cortex

2002 • 331 citations

Selective D2 Receptor Actions on the Functional Circuitry of Working Memory

2004 • 316 citations

Coding of Predicted Reward Omission by Dopamine Neurons in a Conditioned Inhibition Paradigm

2003 • 306 citations

Burst activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons is elicited by sensory stimuli in the awake cat

1997 • 292 citations

Neural mechanisms of reward-related motor learning

2003 • 287 citations

Modulation of A10 dopamine neurons by gamma-aminobutyric acid agonists.

1990 • 265 citations

Reciprocal changes in prefrontal and limbic dopamine responsiveness to aversive and rewarding stimuli after chronic mild stress: implications for the psychobiology of depression

1999 • 250 citations

An electrophysiological characterization of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons during differential pavlovian fear conditioning in the awake rabbit

1999 • 202 citations

Responses of nigrostriatal dopamine neurons to high-intensity somatosensory stimulation in the anesthetized monkey

1987 • 184 citations

Dynamic Gain Control of Dopamine Delivery in Freely Moving Animals

2004 • 177 citations

Sensory stimuli alter discharge rate of dopamine (DA) neurons: evidence for two functional types of DA cells in the substantia nigra

1980 • 176 citations

Behaviour of male and female rats with free choice of two environments differing in novelty

1968 • 174 citations

Rapid sampling of extracellular dopamine in the rat prefrontal cortex during food consumption, handling and exposure to novelty

1996 • 169 citations

Effect of noxious tail pinch on the discharge rate of mesocortical and mesolimbic dopamine neurons: selective activation of the mesocortical system

1989 • 166 citations

A subset of ventral tegmental area neurons is inhibited by dopamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine and opioids

1997 • 162 citations

Glutamatergic Regulation of Basal and Stimulus‐Activated Dopamine Release in the Prefrontal Cortex

1998 • 145 citations

Role of endogenous substance P in stress-induced activation of mesocortical dopamine neurones

1983 • 134 citations

The Role of Mesoprefrontal Dopamine Neurons in Stress

1996 • 127 citations

Some normal and abnormal behavioral syndromes due to transmitter gating of opponent processes.

1984 • 119 citations

The interpretation of the measurement of nucleus accumbens dopamine by in vivo dialysis: the kick, the craving or the cognition?

2003 • 116 citations

Enkephalin release into the ventral tegmental area in response to stress: modulation of mesocorticolimbic dopamine

1987 • 116 citations

The role of afferents to the ventral tegmental area in the handling stress-induced increase in the release of dopamine in the medial prefrontal cortex: a dual-probe microdialysis study in the rat brain

1998 • 109 citations

Stress‐Induced Dopamine Release in the Neostriatum: Evaluation of the Role of Action Potentials in Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neurons or Local Initiation by Endogenous Excitatory Amino Acids

1993 • 96 citations

Mechanisms contributing to the recovery of striatal releasable dopamine following MFB stimulation

1987 • 89 citations

Intrinsic reinforcing properties of putatively neutral stimuli in an instrumental two-lever discrimination task

1996 • 61 citations

Effects of peripheral stimulation on the activity of neurons in the ventral tegmental area, substantia nigra and midbrain reticular formation of rats

1982 • 58 citations

Role of excitatory amino acids in the regulation of dopamine synthesis and release in the neostriatum

1998 • 51 citations