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Locomotor Sensitization

Locomotor Sensitization is a neurobehavioral phenomenon characterized by the progressive and enduring enhancement of locomotor activity in response to repeated administration of a psychostimulant agent, reflecting drug-induced neuroadaptations within the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system.

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Behavioral Sensitization

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On the role of ascending catecholaminergic systems in intravenous self-administration of cocaine

David C. S. Roberts, Michael E. Corcoran, Hans C. Fibiger · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 1977 · 728 citations

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Extinction and recovery of cocaine self-administration following 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the nucleus accumbens

David C. S. Roberts, George F. Koob, P. Klonoff et al. · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 1980 · 726 citations

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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

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Stress- and pharmacologically-induced behavioral sensitization increases vulnerability to acquisition of amphetamine self-administration

Pier Vincenzo Piazza, Jean Marie Deminière, Michel Le Moal et al. · Brain Research · 1990 · 572 citations

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Interchangeability of Stress and Amphetamine in Sensitization

Seymour M. Antelman, Alan J. Eichler, Cynthia A. Black et al. · Science · 1980 · 566 citations

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    Peter W. Kalivas

    Medical University of South Carolina, United States

    34 publications · 3.9K citations

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  2. PV
    Paul Vezina

    University of Chicago, United States

    28 publications · 2.5K citations

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    Henry Szechtman

    McMaster University, Canada

    25 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. RF
    Roberto Frussa‐Filho

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

    18 publications · 670 citations

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  5. TE
    Terry E. Robinson

    University of Michigan, United States

    19 publications · 2.2K citations

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  1. National Institute on Drug Abuse

    Bethesda, United States

    38 h-index

    228 publications

    11.7K citations

  2. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    33 h-index

    172 publications

    8.9K citations

  3. Inserm

    Paris, France

    33 h-index

    175 publications

    17.1K citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    30 h-index

    94 publications

    7.5K citations

  5. Washington State University

    Pullman, United States

    29 h-index

    87 publications

    13.1K citations

  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    25 h-index

    69 publications

    4.6K citations

  7. Polish Academy of Sciences

    Warsaw, Poland

    24 h-index

    100 publications

    3.6K citations

  8. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    24 h-index

    107 publications

    5.3K citations

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  1. Psychopharmacology

    298 publications · 14.4K citations

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  2. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

    285 publications · 11.7K citations

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  3. Brain Research

    115 publications · 9.3K citations

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  4. Journal of Neuroscience

    57 publications · 8.5K citations

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