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Dopamine Neurons Respond to Errors in the Prediction of Sensory Features of Expected Rewards.

Hot Off the Press! – January 2018. Associative learning is driven by fundamental instructive or teaching signals that reflect errors in the prediction of rewards and other events. Previously dopamine neurons in the midbrain that project widely in the brain have been shown to signal these errors only for value. Here NIDA researchers show that… [Read More]

The Anterior Insular Cortex–>Central Amygdala Glutamatergic Pathway Is Critical to Relapse after Contingency Management.

Hot Off the Press! – October 2017
Venniro, Marco; Caprioli, Daniele; Zhang, Michelle; Whitaker, Leslie R; Zhang, Shiliang; Warren, Brandon L; Cifani, Carlo; Marchant, Nathan J; Yizhar, Ofer; Bossert, Jennifer M; Chiamulera, Cristiano; Morales, Marisela; Shaham, Yavin
Neuron, 96 (2), pp. 414–427, 2017, ISSN: 1097-4199 (Electronic); 0896-6273 (Linking).
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Chemogenetics revealed: DREADD occupancy and activation via converted clozapine.

Hot Off the Press! – August 2017
Gomez, Juan L; Bonaventura, Jordi; Lesniak, Wojciech; Mathews, William B; Sysa-Shah, Polina; Rodriguez, Lionel A; Ellis, Randall J; Richie, Christopher T; Harvey, Brandon K; Dannals, Robert F; Pomper, Martin G; Bonci, Antonello; Michaelides, Michael
Science, 357 (6350), pp. 503–507, 2017, ISSN: 1095-9203 (Electronic); 0036-8075 (Linking).
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Local Cues Establish and Maintain Region-Specific Phenotypes of Basal Ganglia Microglia.

Hot Off the Press! – July 2017
Biase, Lindsay De M; Schuebel, Kornel E; Fusfeld, Zachary H; Jair, Kamwing; Hawes, Isobel A; Cimbro, Raffaello; Zhang, Hai-Ying; Liu, Qing-Rong; Shen, Hui; Xi, Zheng-Xiong; Goldman, David; Bonci, Antonello
Neuron, 95 (2), pp. 341–356, 2017, ISSN: 1097-4199 (Electronic); 0896-6273 (Linking).
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Neural Signatures of Cognitive Flexibility and Reward Sensitivity Following Nicotinic Receptor Stimulation in Dependent Smokers: A Randomized Trial.

Hot Off the Press! – June 2017
Lesage, Elise; Aronson, Sarah E; Sutherland, Matthew T; Ross, Thomas J; Salmeron, Betty Jo; Stein, Elliot A
JAMA Psychiatry, 74 (6), pp. 632–640, 2017, ISSN: 2168-6238 (Electronic); 2168-622X (Linking).
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Dopamine transients are sufficient and necessary for acquisition of model-based associations.

Hot Off The Press – April 2017
Sharpe, Melissa J; Chang, Chun Yun; Liu, Melissa A; Batchelor, Hannah M; Mueller, Lauren E; Jones, Joshua L; Niv, Yael; Schoenbaum, Geoffrey
Nat Neurosci, 20 (5), pp. 735–742, 2017, ISSN: 1546-1726 (Electronic); 1097-6256 (Linking).
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Circuit specificity in the inhibitory architecture of the VTA regulates cocaine-induced behavior.

Hot Off the Press! – March 2017
Edwards, Nicholas J; Tejeda, Hugo A; Pignatelli, Marco; Zhang, Shiliang; McDevitt, Ross A; Wu, Jocelyn; Bass, Caroline E; Bettler, Bernhard; Morales, Marisela; Bonci, Antonello
Nat Neurosci, 20 (3), pp. 438–448, 2017, ISSN: 1546-1726 (Electronic); 1097-6256 (Linking).
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Synaptic Plasticity onto Dopamine Neurons Shapes Fear Learning.

Hot Off the Press! – January 2017
Barbera, Giovanni; Liang, Bo; Zhang, Lifeng; Gerfen, Charles R; Culurciello, Eugenio; Chen, Rong; Li, Yun; Lin, Da-Ting
Neuron, 92 (1), pp. 202–213, 2016, ISSN: 1097-4199 (Electronic); 0896-6273 (Linking).
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Pathway- and Cell-Specific Kappa-Opioid Receptor Modulation of Excitation-Inhibition Balance Differentially Gates D1 and D2 Accumbens Neuron Activity.

Hot Off the Press! – January 2017
Tejeda, Hugo A; Wu, Jocelyn; Kornspun, Alana R; Pignatelli, Marco; Kashtelyan, Vadim; Krashes, Michael J; Lowell, Brad B; Carlezon, William Jr A; Bonci, Antonello
Nat Neurosci, 20 (3), pp. 438–448, 2017, ISSN: 1546-1726 (Electronic); 1097-6256 (Linking).
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