The basal ganglia: learning new tricks and loving it.

How the brain translates money into force: a neuroimaging study of subliminal motivation. Science (2007) 3.33

Incomplete and inaccurate vocal imitation after knockdown of FoxP2 in songbird basal ganglia nucleus Area X. PLoS Biol (2007) 3.17

Striatum and pre-SMA facilitate decision-making under time pressure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.87

Subliminal instrumental conditioning demonstrated in the human brain. Neuron (2008) 2.55

Dynorphin and the pathophysiology of drug addiction. Pharmacol Ther (2007) 2.51

The cortico-basal ganglia integrative network: the role of the thalamus. Brain Res Bull (2008) 2.49

Distinct subclasses of medium spiny neurons differentially regulate striatal motor behaviors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 2.36

Corticostriatal connectivity and its role in disease. Nat Rev Neurosci (2013) 2.34

Impaired synaptic plasticity and motor learning in mice with a point mutation implicated in human speech deficits. Curr Biol (2008) 2.27

Social context-induced song variation affects female behavior and gene expression. PLoS Biol (2008) 2.20

Inhibitory control and emotional stress regulation: neuroimaging evidence for frontal-limbic dysfunction in psycho-stimulant addiction. Neurosci Biobehav Rev (2007) 2.20

Human substantia nigra neurons encode unexpected financial rewards. Science (2009) 2.16

Morphological abnormalities of the thalamus in youths with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Am J Psychiatry (2010) 2.13

Strongly reduced volumes of putamen and thalamus in Alzheimer's disease: an MRI study. Brain (2008) 2.02

Subcortical processes of motor response inhibition during a stop signal task. Neuroimage (2008) 1.97

A possible role for the striatum in the pathogenesis of the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. Neuron (2010) 1.96

Learning-related coordination of striatal and hippocampal theta rhythms during acquisition of a procedural maze task. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.86

Genetic evidence implicating DARPP-32 in human frontostriatal structure, function, and cognition. J Clin Invest (2007) 1.74

The cerebellum and basal ganglia are interconnected. Neuropsychol Rev (2010) 1.70

Cerebellar networks with the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. Trends Cogn Sci (2013) 1.68

Basal ganglia volume is associated with aerobic fitness in preadolescent children. Dev Neurosci (2010) 1.65

Conditional routing of information to the cortex: a model of the basal ganglia's role in cognitive coordination. Psychol Rev (2010) 1.51

30 years of dynorphins--new insights on their functions in neuropsychiatric diseases. Pharmacol Ther (2009) 1.50

Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia contributions to visual working memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.48

Relationship between the corticostriatal terminals from areas 9 and 46, and those from area 8A, dorsal and rostral premotor cortex and area 24c: an anatomical substrate for cognition to action. Eur J Neurosci (2007) 1.43

Striatal dopamine modulates basal ganglia output and regulates social context-dependent behavioral variability through D1 receptors. J Neurosci (2010) 1.41

Striatal volume predicts level of video game skill acquisition. Cereb Cortex (2010) 1.40

Corticostriatal projection neurons - dichotomous types and dichotomous functions. Front Neuroanat (2010) 1.40

Increased cerebellar activation during sequence learning in DYT1 carriers: an equiperformance study. Brain (2007) 1.33

The cholinergic mesopontine tegmentum is a relatively neglected nicotinic master modulator of the dopaminergic system: relevance to drugs of abuse and pathology. Br J Pharmacol (2008) 1.29

Distinct coincidence detectors govern the corticostriatal spike timing-dependent plasticity. J Physiol (2010) 1.27

A key role of the basal ganglia in pain and analgesia--insights gained through human functional imaging. Mol Pain (2010) 1.26

Differences between neural activity in prefrontal cortex and striatum during learning of novel abstract categories. Neuron (2011) 1.22

The brain circuitry underlying the temporal evolution of nausea in humans. Cereb Cortex (2012) 1.22

Stable encoding of task structure coexists with flexible coding of task events in sensorimotor striatum. J Neurophysiol (2009) 1.20

Sex, lies and fMRI--gender differences in neural basis of deception. PLoS One (2012) 1.19

A cortical motor nucleus drives the basal ganglia-recipient thalamus in singing birds. Nat Neurosci (2012) 1.18

Dual role of medial A10 dopamine neurons in affective encoding. Neuropsychopharmacology (2008) 1.18

Neuroanatomical pattern of mitochondrial complex I pathology varies between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. PLoS One (2008) 1.17

Basal ganglia-dependent processes in recalling learned visual-motor adaptations. Exp Brain Res (2011) 1.12

Genome-wide identification of Bcl11b gene targets reveals role in brain-derived neurotrophic factor signaling. PLoS One (2011) 1.11

Presynaptic regulation of dopamine transmission in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull (2009) 1.10

Functional roles for the striatal-enriched transcription factor, Bcl11b, in the control of striatal gene expression and transcriptional dysregulation in Huntington's disease. Neurobiol Dis (2008) 1.09

Integrating perspectives on vocal performance and consistency. J Exp Biol (2012) 1.09

Treadmill training for the treatment of gait disturbances in people with Parkinson's disease: a mini-review. J Neural Transm (Vienna) (2008) 1.09

Differential involvement of striosome and matrix dopamine systems in a transgenic model of dopa-responsive dystonia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.09

Gap junctions between striatal fast-spiking interneurons regulate spiking activity and synchronization as a function of cortical activity. J Neurosci (2009) 1.08

The basal ganglia is necessary for learning spectral, but not temporal, features of birdsong. Neuron (2013) 1.07

Specific inhibition of kynurenate synthesis enhances extracellular dopamine levels in the rodent striatum. Neuroscience (2008) 1.07

Cell-specific spike-timing-dependent plasticity in GABAergic and cholinergic interneurons in corticostriatal rat brain slices. J Physiol (2007) 1.07

Millisecond timescale disinhibition mediates fast information transmission through an avian basal ganglia loop. J Neurosci (2009) 1.06

The place of dopamine in the cortico-basal ganglia circuit. Neuroscience (2014) 1.05

Serotonin excites fast-spiking interneurons in the striatum. Eur J Neurosci (2009) 1.04

Investigating function and connectivity of morphometric findings--exemplified on cerebellar atrophy in spinocerebellar ataxia 17 (SCA17). Neuroimage (2012) 1.01

Early glial activation, synaptic changes and axonal pathology in the thalamocortical system of Niemann-Pick type C1 mice. Neurobiol Dis (2011) 1.00

Striatal dopamine modulates song spectral but not temporal features through D1 receptors. Eur J Neurosci (2012) 0.98

Dopamine D1 receptors, regulation of gene expression in the brain, and neurodegeneration. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets (2010) 0.98

Reorganization of functional brain maps after exercise training: Importance of cerebellar-thalamic-cortical pathway. Brain Res (2007) 0.98

Recurrent interactions between the input and output of a songbird cortico-basal ganglia pathway are implicated in vocal sequence variability. J Neurosci (2012) 0.98

Acute exercise modulates cigarette cravings and brain activation in response to smoking-related images: an fMRI study. Psychopharmacology (Berl) (2008) 0.97

Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders of Basal Ganglia Origin: Restoring Function or Functionality? Neurotherapeutics (2016) 0.96

States of mind: emotions, body feelings, and thoughts share distributed neural networks. Neuroimage (2012) 0.96

Large-scale brain networks in board game experts: insights from a domain-related task and task-free resting state. PLoS One (2012) 0.95

Intramembrane receptor-receptor interactions: a novel principle in molecular medicine. J Neural Transm (Vienna) (2006) 0.95

Striatum processes reward differently in adolescents versus adults. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 0.95

Structural and behavioral correlates of abnormal encoding of money value in the sensorimotor striatum in cocaine addiction. Eur J Neurosci (2012) 0.95

Song practice promotes acute vocal variability at a key stage of sensorimotor learning. PLoS One (2010) 0.95

Visuomotor learning in immersive 3D virtual reality in Parkinson's disease and in aging. Exp Brain Res (2006) 0.95

Prediction of reading skill several years later depends on age and brain region: implications for developmental models of reading. J Neurosci (2011) 0.94

Drug-induced psychosis: how to avoid star gazing in schizophrenia research by looking at more obvious sources of light. Front Behav Neurosci (2011) 0.94

Endogenous dynorphin protects against neurotoxin-elicited nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuron damage and motor deficits in mice. J Neuroinflammation (2012) 0.94

Anatomy of a songbird basal ganglia circuit essential for vocal learning and plasticity. J Chem Neuroanat (2009) 0.93

Presynaptic control of serotonin on striatal dopamine function. Psychopharmacology (Berl) (2010) 0.93

Oculomotor learning revisited: a model of reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia incorporating an efference copy of motor actions. Front Neural Circuits (2012) 0.93

Spike-timing dependent plasticity in the striatum. Front Synaptic Neurosci (2010) 0.92

Targeting endogenous mu- and delta-opioid receptor systems for the treatment of drug addiction. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets (2008) 0.92

Basal ganglia output to the thalamus: still a paradox. Trends Neurosci (2013) 0.92

LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG: Behavioral Treatment Programs for Speech and Body Movement in Parkinson Disease. Parkinsons Dis (2012) 0.91

Implicit memory in music and language. Front Psychol (2011) 0.91

Changing views of basal ganglia circuits and circuit disorders. Clin EEG Neurosci (2010) 0.91

Predicting individuals' learning success from patterns of pre-learning MRI activity. PLoS One (2011) 0.91

Caudate nucleus signals for breaches of expectation in a movement observation paradigm. Front Hum Neurosci (2011) 0.90

Single-neuron responses in the human nucleus accumbens during a financial decision-making task. J Neurosci (2012) 0.90

Unraveling the differential functions and regulation of striatal neuron sub-populations in motor control, reward, and motivational processes. Front Behav Neurosci (2011) 0.90

The neural correlates of implicit sequence learning in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology (2007) 0.90

Contribution of astrocytic glutamate and GABA uptake to corticostriatal information processing. J Physiol (2011) 0.89

Single-trial classification of gait and point movement preparation from human EEG. Front Neurosci (2013) 0.89

Neural correlates of social approach and withdrawal in patients with major depression. Soc Neurosci (2011) 0.89

Brief subthreshold events can act as Hebbian signals for long-term plasticity. PLoS One (2009) 0.89

Age-dependent maintenance of motor control and corticostriatal innervation by death receptor 3. J Neurosci (2010) 0.88

Behavior modulates effective connectivity between cortex and striatum. PLoS One (2014) 0.88

Humanoids Learning to Walk: A Natural CPG-Actor-Critic Architecture. Front Neurorobot (2013) 0.88

Collateralization of the tectonigral projection with other major output pathways of superior colliculus in the rat. J Comp Neurol (2007) 0.88

Ethanol affects striatal interneurons directly and projection neurons through a reduction in cholinergic tone. Neuropsychopharmacology (2011) 0.88

Basal ganglia neurons dynamically facilitate exploration during associative learning. J Neurosci (2011) 0.88

Substance P depolarizes striatal projection neurons and facilitates their glutamatergic inputs. J Physiol (2008) 0.88

Remembering forward: neural correlates of memory and prediction in human motor adaptation. Neuroimage (2011) 0.87

In vivo manganese exposure modulates Erk, Akt and Darpp-32 in the striatum of developing rats, and impairs their motor function. PLoS One (2012) 0.86

Clinical correlations of grey matter reductions in the caudate nucleus of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. J Psychiatry Neurosci (2010) 0.86

Preservation of function in Parkinson's disease: what's learning got to do with it? Brain Res (2011) 0.85