Francesco E. Pontieri

The PRIAMO study: A multicenter assessment of nonmotor symptoms and their impact on quality of life in Parkinson's disease

Paolo Barone, Angelo Antonini, Carlo Colosimo et al. · Movement Disorders · 2009 · 1.4K citations

Cannabinoid and Heroin Activation of Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission by a Common µ ₁ Opioid Receptor Mechanism

Gianluigi Tanda, Francesco E. Pontieri, G. Di Chiara · Science · 1997 · 1.1K citations

Effects of nicotine on the nucleus accumbens and similarity to those of addictive drugs

Francesco E. Pontieri, Gianluigi Tanda, Francesco Orzi et al. · Nature · 1996 · 1.1K citations

Substance Abuse, Addictive Drugs, Psychoactive Drug +11

Intravenous cocaine, morphine, and amphetamine preferentially increase extracellular dopamine in the "shell" as compared with the "core" of the rat nucleus accumbens.

Francesco E. Pontieri, Gianluigi Tanda, G. Di Chiara · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1995 · 865 citations · Full text

Psychopharmacology, Extracellular Dopamine, Nucleus Accumbens +25

Magnetic resonance imaging markers of Parkinson’s disease nigrostriatal signature

Patrice Péran, Andrea Cherubini, Francesca Assogna et al. · Brain · 2010 · 400 citations · Full text