Fluctuations in nucleus accumbens dopamine concentration during intravenous cocaine self-administration in rats

Drugs abused by humans preferentially increase synaptic dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic system of freely moving rats.

G. Di Chiara, Assunta Impérato · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 4.7K citations · Full text

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17

Autoradiographic localization of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in rat nucleus accumbens: Resistance to differential rearing conditions

M.T. Bardo, Ronald P. Hammer · Neuroscience · 1991 · 3.2K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

An opponent-process theory of motivation: I. Temporal dynamics of affect.

Richard L. Solomon, John Corbit · Psychological Review · 1974 · 1.7K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +15

Brain maps: structure of the rat brain

Ray Guillery · Trends in Neurosciences · 1993 · 1.7K citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +14

Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat

Lennart Heimer, Daniel S. Zahm, L. Churchill et al. · Neuroscience · 1991 · 1.2K citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +7