Pharmacology of Basal Forebrain Involvement in Reinforcement

Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain.

1954 • 3,047 citations

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1972

1974 • 1,493 citations

Catecholamine theories of reward: A critical review

1978 • 766 citations

Hypothalamic Substrates of Reward

1962 • 474 citations

Pimozide-induced extinction of intracranial self-stimulation: response patterns rule out motor or performance deficits

1976 • 320 citations

The Neurobiology of Motivation and Reward

1985 • 255 citations

Self-administration of methionine enkephalin into the nucleus accumbens

1984 • 238 citations

The role of dopamine in maintaining intracranial self-stimulation in the ventral tegmentum, nucleus accumbens, and medial prefrontal cortex.

1978 • 211 citations

The role of dopamine in intracranial self-stimulation of the ventral tegmental area

1987 • 189 citations

Reinforcing properties of cocaine in the medial prefrontal cortex: Primary action on presynaptic dopaminergic terminals

1986 • 169 citations

Metabolic Mapping of the Brain During Rewarding Self-Stimulation

1984 • 120 citations

Effects of chlorpromazine, meprobamate, pentobarbital and morphine on self-stimulation.

1960 • 116 citations

Dopaminergic substrates of intracranial self-stimulation in the caudate-putamen

1976 • 102 citations

Effects of amphetamine isomers and neuroleptics on self-stimulation from the nucleus accumbens and dorsal nor-adrenergenic bundle

1975 • 101 citations

Is the dopaminergic mesocorticolimbic system necessary for intracranial self-stimulation?

1979 • 100 citations

Escape from Self-Produced Rates of Brain Stimulation

1969 • 100 citations

Self-stimulation at the lateral hypothalamus and locus coeruleus after specific unilateral lesions of the dopamine system

1978 • 99 citations

Brain stimulation reward and dopamine terminal fields. I. Caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens and amygdala

1984 • 98 citations

Amygdaloid stimulation and operant reinforcement in the rat.

1963 • 88 citations

Neurotensin self-injection in the ventral tegmental area

1987 • 84 citations

Reduction of the rewarding effect of brain stimulation by a blockade of dopamine D1 receptor with SCH 23390

1986 • 80 citations

Specific modulation of brain stimulation reward by haloperidol

1979 • 73 citations

The effect of microinjections of morphine and haloperidol into the neostriatum and the nucleus accumbens on self-stimulation behaviour.

1975 • 61 citations

Potentiation of central reward by localised perfusion of acetylcholine and 5-hydroxytryptamine

1976 • 59 citations

Medial thalamic injection of opioid agonists: μ-agonist increases while κ-agonist decreases stimulus thresholds for pain and reward

1988 • 54 citations

Modulation of intracranial self-stimulation behaviour by local perfusions of dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin within the caudate nucleus and nucleus accumbens

1978 • 53 citations

The distribution of changes in local cerebral energy metabolism associated with brain stimulation reward to the medial forebrain bundle of the rat

1990 • 52 citations

Intracranial self-stimulation from the sulcal prefrontal cortex in the rat: The effect of 6-hydroxydopamine or kainic acid lesions at the site of stimulation

1981 • 50 citations

Intracranial self-stimulation from the dorsal raphe nucleus of the rat: effects of the injection of para-chlorophenylalanine and of alpha-methylparatyrosine

1976 • 49 citations

Thalamic Reticular System and Central Grey: Self-Stimulation

1967 • 48 citations

Brain stimulation reward and dopamine terminal fields. II. Septal and cortical projections

1984 • 47 citations

Self-Stimulation in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus

1972 • 46 citations

Contrasting effects of hypothalamic and nucleus accumbens septi self-stimulation on brain stem single unit activity and cortical arousal

1971 • 43 citations

Effects of agonists and antagonists of D1 and D2 dopamine receptors on self-stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex in the rat

1983 • 43 citations

Changes in local cerebral glucose utilization during rewarding brain stimulation.

1984 • 42 citations

Evidence for a role of dopamine in self-stimulation of the nucleus accumbens of the rat.

1978 • 38 citations

Effects of naltrexone on nucleus accumbens, lateral hypothalamic and ventral tegmental self-stimulation rate—frequency functions

1988 • 37 citations

Identification of a subregion within rat neostriatum for the dopaminergic modulation of lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation

1978 • 36 citations

Differential effects of para-chlorophenylalanine on self-stimulation in caudate-putamen and lateral hypothalamus

1976 • 33 citations

Comparison of deficits in electrical self-stimulation after ibotenic acid lesion of the lateral hypothalamus and the medial prefrontal cortex

1985 • 31 citations

Increased in vivo tyrosine hydroxylase activity in rat telencephalon produced by self-stimulation of the ventral tegmental area

1987 • 29 citations

Effects of GABA receptor blockade on stimulation-induced feeding and self-stimulation

1980 • 29 citations

Relative effectiveness of pimozide, haloperidol and trifluoperazine on self-stimulation rate-intensity functions

1985 • 27 citations

Self-stimulation of the sulcal prefrontal cortex in the rat: Direct evidence for ascending dopaminergic mediation

1979 • 27 citations

Unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of dopamine neurons produce bilateral self-stimulation deficits

1982 • 27 citations

Electrical self-stimulation deficits in the anterior and posterior parts of the medial forebrain bundle after ibotenic acid lesion of the middle lateral hypothalamus

1985 • 24 citations

Dopamine-acetylcholine “balance” in nucleus accumbens and corpus striatum and its effect on hypothalamic self-stimulation

1979 • 24 citations

GABA antagonism lowers self-stimulation thresholds in the ventral tegmental area

1980 • 23 citations

Serotonergic mediation of habenular self-stimulation in the rat

1984 • 22 citations

The reinforcing and rate effects of intracranial dopamine administration.

1986 • 21 citations

Suppression of self-stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex after local micro-injection of kainic acid in the rat

1985 • 15 citations

Induction of self-stimulation behavior derived from a brain region lacking in dopaminergic innervation

1980 • 15 citations

Increases in dopamine metabolism are not a general feature of intracranial self-stimulation

1982 • 10 citations

Lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation persists in rats after destruction of lateral hypothalamic neurons by kainic acid or ibotenic acid

1985 • 9 citations

Effects of naloxone and chlordiazepoxide on lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation in rats

1985 • 9 citations

Opioid-receptor blockade reduces nose-poke self-stimulation derived from medial entorhinal cortex

1986 • 8 citations