Cellular activation in limbic brain systems during social play behaviour in rats

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

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

Braking Dopamine Systems: A New GABA Master Structure for Mesolimbic and Nigrostriatal Functions

(2012) M. Barrot 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

Whole-Brain Mapping of Direct Inputs to Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

(2012) Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida et al.   NEURON

A Rapid and Highly Sensitive Method of Non Radioactive Colorimetric In Situ Hybridization for the Detection of mRNA on Tissue Sections

(2012) Electra Stylianopoulou et al.   PLoS One

Deep Brain Stimulation Reveals a Dissociation of Consummatory and Motivated Behaviour in the Medial and Lateral Nucleus Accumbens Shell of the Rat

(2012) Geoffrey van der Plasse et al.   PLoS One

Projections from the rat pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei to the anterior thalamus and ventral tegmental area arise from largely separate populations of neurons

(2011) Ericka C. Holmstrand et al.   Brain Structure & Function

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

Nucleus Accumbens  -Opioid Receptors Mediate Social Reward

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

Negative Reward Signals from the Lateral Habenula to Dopamine Neurons Are Mediated by Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus in Primates

(2011) S. Hong et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Projection-Specific Modulation of Dopamine Neuron Synapses by Aversive and Rewarding Stimuli

(2011) Stephan Lammel et al.   NEURON

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

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

Serotonin, motivation, and playfulness in the juvenile rat

(2011) Stephen M. Siviy et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Evaluating the rewarding nature of social interactions in laboratory animals

(2011) Viviana Trezza et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Re-valuing the amygdala

(2010) Sara E Morrison et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Current Perspectives on the Biological Study of Play: Signs of Progress

(2010) Kerrie Lewis Graham et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

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

The Neuropsychopharmacology of Fronto-Executive Function: Monoaminergic Modulation

(2009) T.W. Robbins et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Interactions between the prefrontal cortex and amygdala during delay discounting and reversal.

(2009) John C. Churchwell et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

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

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

Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices

(2009) Heather C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The mesopontine rostromedial tegmental nucleus: A structure targeted by the lateral habenula that projects to the ventral tegmental area of Tsai and substantia nigra compacta

(2009) Thomas C. Jhou et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus (RMTg), a GABAergic Afferent to Midbrain Dopamine Neurons, Encodes Aversive Stimuli and Inhibits Motor Responses

(2009) Thomas C. Jhou et al.   NEURON

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

(2009) Viviana Trezza et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging

(2009) Suzanne N Haber et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Cortico-Basal Ganglia Reward Network: Microcircuitry

(2009) Susan R Sesack et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The integrative function of the basal ganglia in instrumental conditioning

(2008) Bernard W. Balleine et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The rat orbital and agranular insular prefrontal cortical areas: a cytoarchitectonic and chemoarchitectonic study

(2008) Henri J. J. M. Van De Werd et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Sex-steroidal regulation of aromatase mRNA expression in adult male rat brain: a quantitative non-radioactive in situ hybridization study

(2008) Changjiu Zhao et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

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

(2008) Viviana Trezza et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Measurement of Immediate-Early Gene Activation-c-fosand Beyond

(2008) K. J. Kovács   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

The social brain in adolescence

(2008) Sarah-Jayne Blakemore   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Unique Properties of Mesoprefrontal Neurons within a Dual Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine System

(2008) Stephan Lammel et al.   NEURON

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

Expression of amphetamine sensitization is associated with recruitment of a reactive neuronal population in the nucleus accumbens core

(2008) R. E. Nordquist et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

(2008) Kent C. Berridge et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The orbital cortex in rats topographically projects to central parts of the caudate–putamen complex

(2007) Eduardo A. Schilman et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS