Saleem M. Nicola

Basolateral Amygdala Neurons Facilitate Reward-Seeking Behavior by Exciting Nucleus Accumbens Neurons

Frédéric Ambroggi, Akinori Ishikawa, Howard L. Fields et al. · Neuron · 2008 · 477 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Cognitive Science, Reward Processing +7

The Ventral Tegmental Area Is Required for the Behavioral and Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Firing Responses to Incentive Cues

Irene A. Yun, Ken T. Wakabayashi, Howard L. Fields et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2004 · 243 citations · Full text

Brain Mechanism, Neurotransmitter, Affective Neuroscience +24

The Flexible Approach Hypothesis: Unification of Effort and Cue-Responding Hypotheses for the Role of Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine in the Activation of Reward-Seeking Behavior

Saleem M. Nicola · Journal of Neuroscience · 2010 · 242 citations · Full text

Behavioral Decision Making, Affective Neuroscience, Dopamine Projection +23

Roles of Nucleus Accumbens Core and Shell in Incentive-Cue Responding and Behavioral Inhibition

Frédéric Ambroggi, Ali Ghazizadeh, Saleem M. Nicola et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2011 · 206 citations · Full text

Incentive-cue Responding, Neuropsychology, Brain Mechanism +18

Cue-Evoked Firing of Nucleus Accumbens Neurons Encodes Motivational Significance During a Discriminative Stimulus Task

Saleem M. Nicola, Irene A. Yun, Ken T. Wakabayashi et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2004 · 193 citations

Sucrose Reward Contingent, Brain Mechanism, Affective Neuroscience +20