Steven T. Pittenger

Acetylcholine is released in the basolateral amygdala in response to predictors of reward and enhances the learning of cue-reward contingency

Richard B. Crouse, Kristen K.O. Kim, Hannah M. Batchelor et al. · eLife · 2020 · 104 citations · Full text

Synaptic Transmission, Neurotransmitter, Affective Neuroscience +24

Activity of a direct VTA to ventral pallidum GABA pathway encodes unconditioned reward value and sustains motivation for reward

Wen‐Liang Zhou, Kristen K.O. Kim, Farhan Ali et al. · Science Advances · 2022 · 51 citations · Full text

Bidirectional Regulation of Aggression in Mice by Hippocampal Alpha-7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors

Alan S. Lewis, Steven T. Pittenger, Yann S. Mineur et al. · Neuropsychopharmacology · 2017 · 30 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Behavioral Sciences, Affective Neuroscience +8

ACh signaling modulates activity of the GABAergic signaling network in the basolateral amygdala and behavior in stress-relevant paradigms

Yann S. Mineur, Tenna N. Mose, Kathrine Lefoli Maibom et al. · Molecular Psychiatry · 2022 · 30 citations · Full text

Stress Hormone, Neurophysiology, Stress +10

Ibudilast reverses the decrease in the synaptic signaling protein phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 1 (PEBP1) produced by chronic methamphetamine intake in rats

Sergios Charntikov, Steven T. Pittenger, Ishwor Thapa et al. · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2015 · 28 citations

Chronic Methamphetamine Intake, Psychoactive Drug, Addiction +11