Effects of maternal care on the development of midbrain dopamine pathways and reward-directed behavior in female offspring

Implications of temporal variation in maternal care for the prediction of neurobiological and behavioral outcomes in offspring.

(2013) Catherine Jensen Peña et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Developmental Timing of the Effects of Maternal Care on Gene Expression and Epigenetic Regulation of Hormone Receptor Levels in Female Rats

(2013) Catherine Jensen Peña et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Postnatal Aversive Experience Impairs Sensitivity to Natural Rewards and Increases Susceptibility to Negative Events in Adult Life

(2012) Rossella Ventura et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Dynamic Changes of Tyrosine Hydroxylase and Dopamine Concentrations in the Ventral Tegmental Area-Nucleus Accumbens Projection During the Expression of Morphine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference in Rats

(2012) Jing Liang et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

Variations in postnatal maternal care and the epigenetic regulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 expression and hippocampal function in the rat

(2012) R. C. Bagot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Brain regions associated with the acquisition of conditioned place preference for cocaine vs. social interaction

(2012) Rana El Rawas et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Effects of a new postnatal stress model on monoaminergic neurotransmitters in rat brains

(2011) Christina J. Huppertz-Kessler et al.   BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT

Accumbal dopamine function in postpartum rats that were raised without their mothers

(2011) Veronica M. Afonso et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Epigenetic, transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene

(2011) Robert Lenartowski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Variation in Maternal Care Influences Ventromedial Hypothalamus Activation in the Rat

(2011) N. M. Cameron et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking

(2011) Garret D. Stuber et al.   NATURE

Limited physical contact through a mesh barrier is sufficient for social reward-conditioned place preference in adolescent male rats

(2011) Natalie A. Peartree et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prolonged Membrane Depolarization Enhances Midbrain Dopamine Neuron Differentiation via Epigenetic Histone Modifications

(2011) Xi-Biao He et al.   STEM CELLS

Oxytocin-Dopamine Interactions Mediate Variations in Maternal Behavior in the Rat

(2010) Dara K. Shahrokh et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Maternal Care and DNA Methylation of a Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase 1 Promoter in Rat Hippocampus

(2010) T.-Y. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mesolimbic dopaminergic activity responding to acute stress is blunted in adolescent rats that experienced neonatal maternal separation

(2010) J.W. Jahng et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Early life protein restriction alters dopamine circuitry

(2010) Z. Vucetic et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Potential programming of dopaminergic circuits by early life stress

(2010) Ana-João Rodrigues et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

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

Post-transcriptional Regulation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase Expression in Adrenal Medulla and Brain

(2009) A. William Tank et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Cortico-Basal Ganglia Reward Network: Microcircuitry

(2009) Susan R Sesack et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Early life exposure to a high fat diet promotes long-term changes in dietary preferences and central reward signaling

(2009) S.L. Teegarden et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Dopamine and reward: The anhedonia hypothesis 30 years on

(2009) Roy A. Wise   NEUROTOXICITY RESEARCH

The influence of natural variations in maternal care on play fighting in the rat

(2008) Carine I. Parent et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Medial preoptic area interactions with dopamine neural systems in the control of the onset and maintenance of maternal behavior in rats

(2008) Michael Numan et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Characterization of maternal motivation in the lactating rat: Contrasts between early and late postpartum responses

(2008) Michael P. Wansaw et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

(2008) Thomas D Schmittgen et al.   Nature Protocols

Maternal Programming of Sexual Behavior and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Function in the Female Rat

(2008) Nicole Cameron et al.   PLoS One