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A VTA to Basal Amygdala Dopamine Projection Contributes to Signal Salient Somatosensory Events during Fear Learning
Wei Tang, Olexiy Kochubey, Michael Kintscher and Ralf Schneggenburger

Journal of Neuroscience 10 April 2020, 40 (20) 3969-3980; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1796-19.2020
Research Articles, Systems/Circuits
Synaptic Regulation by OPRM1 Variants in Reward Neurocircuitry
Dina Popova, Nidhi Desai, Julie A. Blendy and Zhiping P. Pang

Journal of Neuroscience 20 May 2019, 39 (29) 5685-5696; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2317-18.2019
Research Articles, Cellular/Molecular
GIRK Channel Activity in Dopamine Neurons of the Ventral Tegmental Area Bidirectionally Regulates Behavioral Sensitivity to Cocaine
Nora M. McCall, Ezequiel Marron Fernandez de Velasco and Kevin Wickman

Journal of Neuroscience 5 March 2019, 39 (19) 3600-3610; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3101-18.2019
Research Articles, Behavioral/Cognitive
Age-Related Trajectories of Functional Coupling between the VTA and Nucleus Accumbens Depend on Motivational State
Vishnu P. Murty, Hemali Shah, David Montez, Will Foran, Finnegan Calabro and Beatriz Luna

Journal of Neuroscience 20 July 2018, 38 (34) 7420-7427; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3508-17.2018
Research Articles, Neurobiology of Disease
Inactivation of NMDA Receptors in the Ventral Tegmental Area during Cocaine Self-Administration Prevents GluA1 Upregulation but with Paradoxical Increases in Cocaine-Seeking Behavior
Daniel Guzman, Maria B. Carreira, Allyson K. Friedman, Megumi Adachi, Rachael L. Neve, Lisa M. Monteggia, Ming-Hu Han, Christopher W. Cowan and David W. Self

Journal of Neuroscience 1 December 2017, 38 (3) 575-585; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2828-16.2017
Research Articles, Behavioral/Cognitive
Selectivity in Postencoding Connectivity with High-Level Visual Cortex Is Associated with Reward-Motivated Memory
Vishnu P. Murty, Alexa Tompary, R. Alison Adcock and Lila Davachi

Journal of Neuroscience 5 December 2016, 37 (3) 537-545; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4032-15.2016
Articles, Systems/Circuits
The Nucleus Reuniens of the Midline Thalamus Gates Prefrontal-Hippocampal Modulation of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neuron Activity
Eric C. Zimmerman and Anthony A. Grace

Journal of Neuroscience 24 August 2016, 36 (34) 8977-8984; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1402-16.2016
Brief Communications
Rewarding Effects of Optical Stimulation of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamatergic Neurons
Hui-Ling Wang, Jia Qi, Shiliang Zhang, Huikun Wang and Marisela Morales

Journal of Neuroscience 2 December 2015, 35 (48) 15948-15954; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3428-15.2015
Articles, Behavioral/Cognitive
Inflammatory Pain Promotes Increased Opioid Self-Administration: Role of Dysregulated Ventral Tegmental Area μ Opioid Receptors
Lucia Hipólito, Adrianne Wilson-Poe, Yolanda Campos-Jurado, Elaine Zhong, Jose Gonzalez-Romero, Laszlo Virag, Robert Whittington, Sandra D. Comer, Susan M. Carlton, Brendan M. Walker, Michael R. Bruchas and Jose A. Morón

Journal of Neuroscience 2 September 2015, 35 (35) 12217-12231; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1053-15.2015
Brief Communications
Consolidation of Associative and Item Memory Is Related to Post-Encoding Functional Connectivity between the Ventral Tegmental Area and Different Medial Temporal Lobe Subregions during an Unrelated Task
Alexa Tompary, Katherine Duncan and Lila Davachi

Journal of Neuroscience 13 May 2015, 35 (19) 7326-7331; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4816-14.2015

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