Social Play Behavior in Adolescent Rats is Mediated by Functional Activity in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Striatum

Endocannabinoids in Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens Mediate Social Play Reward in Adolescent Rats

(2012) V. Trezza et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Understanding adolescence as a period of social–affective engagement and goal flexibility

(2012) Eveline A. Crone et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The Mysterious Motivational Functions of Mesolimbic Dopamine

(2012) John D. Salamone et al.   NEURON

Isolation rearing attenuates social interaction-induced expression of immediate early gene protein products in the medial prefrontal cortex of male and female rats

(2012) Vanessa L. Wall et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

The experience-dependent maturation of prefronto-limbic circuits and the origin of developmental psychopathology: implications for the pathogenesis and therapy of behavioural disorders

(2011) KATHARINA BRAUN et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

Projections of the medial orbital and ventral orbital cortex in the rat

(2011) Walter B. Hoover et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Dissociable Effects of Lesions to Orbitofrontal Cortex Subregions on Impulsive Choice in the Rat

(2011) A. C. Mar et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Nucleus Accumbens  -Opioid Receptors Mediate Social Reward

(2011) V. Trezza et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

In search of the neurobiological substrates for social playfulness in mammalian brains

(2011) Stephen M. Siviy et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Differential Effects of Accumbens Core vs. Shell Lesions in a Rat Concurrent Conditioned Place Preference Paradigm for Cocaine vs. Social Interaction

(2011) Michael Fritz et al.   PLoS One

Coevolutionary relationship between striatum size and social play in nonhuman primates

(2010) Kerrie Lewis Graham   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Dissociable regulation of instrumental action within mouse prefrontal cortex

(2010) Shannon L. Gourley et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Pause in Nucleus Accumbens Neuron Firing Is Required to Initiate and Maintain Feeding

(2010) M. Krause et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Dissociable roles of mGlu5 and dopamine receptors in the rewarding and sensitizing properties of morphine and cocaine

(2010) M. M. J. Veeneman et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

(2010) Viviana Trezza et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the play fighting of rats.

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

An investigation of playful behaviour in Rattus norvegicus and Mus musculus (Mammalia)

(2009) Trevor B. Poole et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Extinction circuits for fear and addiction overlap in prefrontal cortex

(2009) J. Peters et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Prosocial Effects of Nicotine and Ethanol in Adolescent Rats Through Partially Dissociable Neurobehavioral Mechanisms

(2009) Viviana Trezza et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Cannabinoid and opioid modulation of social play behavior in adolescent rats: Differential behavioral mechanisms

(2008) Viviana Trezza et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Biological substrates of reward and aversion: A nucleus accumbens activity hypothesis

(2008) William A. Carlezon et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Methylphenidate Disrupts Social Play Behavior in Adolescent Rats

(2008) Louk J M J Vanderschuren et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Neural circuitry of play fighting in golden hamsters

(2008) S.-Y. Cheng et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

(2008) Kent C. Berridge et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY