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Carlos A. Mejías-Aponte

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2002

Affiliations

National Institute on Drug Abuse(Current)

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Mental Health

University of Maryland, Baltimore

Central University of the Caribbean

Carlos A. Mejías-Aponte is an author at National Institute on Drug Abuse specializing in neuroscience, life sciences, and neurobiology.

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Publications per year

2002–2024

18

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18

Single rodent mesohabenular axons release glutamate and GABA

David H. Root, Carlos A. Mejías-Aponte, Shiliang Zhang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2014 · 360 citations · Full text

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Role of Glutamatergic Projections from Ventral Tegmental Area to Lateral Habenula in Aversive Conditioning

David H. Root, Carlos A. Mejías-Aponte, Jia Qi et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2014 · 238 citations · Full text

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Dorsal Raphe Dual Serotonin-Glutamate Neurons Drive Reward by Establishing Excitatory Synapses on VTA Mesoaccumbens Dopamine Neurons

Hui-Ling Wang, Shiliang Zhang, Jia Qi et al. · Cell Reports · 2019 · 180 citations · Full text

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Adrenergic and Noradrenergic Innervation of the Midbrain Ventral Tegmental Area and Retrorubral Field: Prominent Inputs from Medullary Homeostatic Centers

Carlos A. Mejías-Aponte, Candice Drouin, Gary Aston‐Jones · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009 · 133 citations · Full text

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Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning

Melissa J. Sharpe, Nathan J. Marchant, Leslie R. Whitaker et al. · Current Biology · 2017 · 132 citations · Full text

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