Karen Kest

NMDA receptor antagonism in the ventral tegmental area impairs acquisition of reward-related learning

Margaret R. Zellner, Karen Kest, Robert Ranaldi · Behavioural Brain Research · 2008 · 51 citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

Environmental enrichment, administered after establishment of cocaine self-administration, reduces lever pressing in extinction and during a cocaine context renewal test

Robert Ranaldi, Karen Kest, Margaret R. Zellner et al. · Behavioural Pharmacology · 2011 · 38 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +17

The effects of VTA NMDA receptor antagonism on reward-related learning and associated c-fos expression in forebrain

Robert Ranaldi, Karen Kest, Margaret R. Zellner et al. · Behavioural Brain Research · 2010 · 36 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

c-Fos induction in mesotelencephalic dopamine pathway projection targets and dorsal striatum following oral intake of sugars and fats in rats

J.A.D. Dela Cruz, Tricia Coke, T. Karagiorgis et al. · Brain Research Bulletin · 2014 · 29 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Repeated heroin in rats produces locomotor sensitization and enhances appetitive Pavlovian and instrumental learning involving food reward

Robert Ranaldi, Jonathan Egan, Karen Kest et al. · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 2008 · 27 citations

Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience +17