Mariana Pereira

The changing role of the medial preoptic area in the regulation of maternal behavior across the postpartum period: Facilitation followed by inhibition

Mariana Pereira, Joan I. Morrell · Behavioural Brain Research · 2009 · 110 citations · Full text

Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, Preterm Labor +11

Forebrain circuitry involved in effort-related choice: Injections of the GABAA agonist muscimol into ventral pallidum alter response allocation in food-seeking behavior

Andrew M. Farrar, Laura Font, Mariana Pereira et al. · Neuroscience · 2008 · 102 citations · Full text

Neurobiological Mechanism, Behavioral Sciences, Food-seeking Behavior +13

Intra-accumbens injections of the adenosine A2A agonist CGS 21680 affect effort-related choice behavior in rats

Laura Font, Susana Mingote, Andrew M. Farrar et al. · Psychopharmacology · 2008 · 101 citations · Full text

Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Decision Making, Behavioral Neuroscience +11

Adenosine A2A receptor antagonism reverses the effects of dopamine receptor antagonism on instrumental output and effort-related choice in the rat: implications for studies of psychomotor slowing

Andrew M. Farrar, Mariana Pereira, FRANCISCO FIERRO VELASCO et al. · Psychopharmacology · 2006 · 98 citations

Effort-related Choice, Neurophysiology, Addiction +12

Demanding pups improve maternal behavioral impairments in sensitized and haloperidol-treated lactating female rats

Mariana Pereira, Annabel Ferreira · Behavioural Brain Research · 2006 · 92 citations

Animal Physiology, Behavioral Sciences, Veterinary Behavioral Medicine +13