Alec Okun

Pain relief produces negative reinforcement through activation of mesolimbic reward–valuation circuitry

Edita Navratilova, Jennifer Y. Xie, Alec Okun et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 308 citations · Full text

Pain Therapy, Pain Disorders, Mesolimbic Reward–valuation Circuitry +25

Lesion of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex eliminates the aversiveness of spontaneous neuropathic pain following partial or complete axotomy

Chaoling Qu, Tamara King, Alec Okun et al. · Pain · 2011 · 211 citations

Acute Pain, Spontaneous Neuropathic Pain, Pain Medicine +18

Endogenous Opioid Activity in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Is Required for Relief of Pain

Edita Navratilova, Jennifer Y. Xie, Diana Meske et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2015 · 188 citations · Full text

Social reward-conditioned place preference: A model revealing an interaction between cocaine and social context rewards in rats

Kenneth J. Thiel, Alec Okun, Janet L. Neisewander · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2008 · 163 citations · Full text

Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Decision Making, Behavioral Neuroscience +9

Afferent drive elicits ongoing pain in a model of advanced osteoarthritis

Alec Okun, Ping Liu, Peg Davis et al. · Pain · 2012 · 132 citations · Full text

Pain Therapy, Pain Medicine, Afferent Drive Elicits +19