Dennis R. Sparta

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2003

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill(Current)

University of California, San Francisco

Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center

University of Maryland, Baltimore

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Dennis R. Sparta is an author at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializing in neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and life sciences.

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2003–2021

Publications

Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking

Garret D. Stuber, Dennis R. Sparta, Alice M. Stamatakis et al. · Nature · 2011 · 889 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +12

Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states

Joshua H. Jennings, Dennis R. Sparta, Alice M. Stamatakis et al. · Nature · 2013 · 727 citations

Nursing, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +12

Construction of implantable optical fibers for long-term optogenetic manipulation of neural circuits

Dennis R. Sparta, Alice M. Stamatakis, Jana L. Phillips et al. · Nature Protocols · 2011 · 404 citations · Full text

Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering +16

Motivation for Alcohol Becomes Resistant to Quinine Adulteration After 3 to 4 Months of Intermittent Alcohol Self‐Administration

F. Woodward Hopf, Shao-Ju Chang, Dennis R. Sparta et al. · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research · 2010 · 189 citations

Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Activation of Prefrontal Cortical Parvalbumin Interneurons Facilitates Extinction of Reward-Seeking Behavior

Dennis R. Sparta, Nanna Hovelsø, Alex O. Mason et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2014 · 132 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

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