R. Christopher Pierce

Repeated cocaine augments excitatory amino acid transmission in the nucleus accumbens only in rats having developed behavioral sensitization

R. Christopher Pierce, Ken Bell, Philip E. Duffy et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 1996 · 621 citations · Full text

Synaptic Transmission, Neurotransmitter, Psychopharmacology +20

Amphetamine produces sensitized increases in locomotion and extracellular dopamine preferentially in the nucleus accumbens shell of rats administered repeated cocaine.

R. Christopher Pierce, Peter W. Kalivas · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 1995 · 248 citations

Ibotenic acid lesions of the dorsal prefrontal cortex disrupt the expression of behavioral sensitization to cocaine

R. Christopher Pierce, Danna Reeder, J. Braxton Hicks et al. · Neuroscience · 1997 · 213 citations

Neuropsychology, Affective Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology +17

GABAB-mediated rescue of altered excitatory–inhibitory balance, gamma synchrony and behavioral deficits following constitutive NMDAR-hypofunction

Michael J. Gandal, J Sisti, Kerstin Klook et al. · Translational Psychiatry · 2012 · 205 citations · Full text

Neuropsychology, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurotransmitter +19

Transient increases in catecholaminergic activity in medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens shell during novelty

George V. Rebec, Chad P. Grabner, Mia Johnson et al. · Neuroscience · 1996 · 183 citations

Neurobiological Mechanism, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Science +12