Designer receptors show role for ventral pallidum input to ventral tegmental area in cocaine seeking

Instant Transformation of Learned Repulsion into Motivational “Wanting”

(2013) Mike J.F. Robinson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Medial Prefrontal Cortex Inversely Regulates Toluene-Induced Changes in Markers of Synaptic Plasticity of Mesolimbic Dopamine Neurons

(2013) J. T. Beckley et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Ventral Striato-Pallidal Pathway Mediates the Effect of Predictive Learning on Choice between Goal-Directed Actions

(2013) B. K. Leung et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Opioid Modulation of Ventral Pallidal Afferents to Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons

(2013) G. O. Hjelmstad et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Unique Population of Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons Inhibits the Lateral Habenula to Promote Reward

(2013) Alice M. Stamatakis et al.   NEURON

The rostral subcommissural ventral pallidum is a mix of ventral pallidal neurons and neurons from adjacent areas: an electrophysiological study

(2012) Yonatan M. Kupchik et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Axonal branching patterns of ventral pallidal neurons in the rat

(2012) Anushree Tripathi et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Differential roles of ventral pallidum subregions during cocaine self-administration behaviors

(2012) David H. Root et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Fos Activation of Selective Afferents to Ventral Tegmental Area during Cue-Induced Reinstatement of Cocaine Seeking in Rats

(2012) S. V. Mahler et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Primate Ventral Pallidum Encodes Expected Reward Value and Regulates Motor Action

(2012) Yoshihisa Tachibana et al.   NEURON

Activation of VTA GABA Neurons Disrupts Reward Consumption

(2012) Ruud van Zessen et al.   NEURON

Are you or aren’t you? Challenges associated with physiologically identifying dopamine neurons

(2012) Mark A. Ungless et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Insights to drug addiction derived from ultrastructural views of the mesocorticolimbic system

(2011) Marisela Morales et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Recombinase-Driver Rat Lines: Tools, Techniques, and Optogenetic Application to Dopamine-Mediated Reinforcement

(2011) Ilana B. Witten et al.   NEURON

Grateful DREADDs: Engineered Receptors Reveal How Neural Circuits Regulate Behavior

(2011) Susan M Ferguson et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Novel neurons in ventral tegmental area fire selectively during the active phase of the diurnal cycle

(2010) Alice H. Luo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Ventral pallidum roles in reward and motivation

(2008) Kyle S. Smith et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Unique Properties of Mesoprefrontal Neurons within a Dual Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine System

(2008) Stephan Lammel et al.   NEURON

Forebrain circuitry involved in effort-related choice: Injections of the GABAA agonist muscimol into ventral pallidum alter response allocation in food-seeking behavior

(2008) A.M. Farrar et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Prelude to Passion: Limbic Activation by “Unseen” Drug and Sexual Cues

(2008) Anna Rose Childress et al.   PLoS One