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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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Addiction.
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Annu Rev Psychol
|
2002
|
6.70
|
|
2
|
Review. The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues.
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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
|
2008
|
5.54
|
|
3
|
The neuroscience of natural rewards: relevance to addictive drugs.
|
J Neurosci
|
2002
|
4.70
|
|
4
|
Hedonic hot spot in nucleus accumbens shell: where do mu-opioids cause increased hedonic impact of sweetness?
|
J Neurosci
|
2005
|
3.10
|
|
5
|
Ventral pallidum firing codes hedonic reward: when a bad taste turns good.
|
J Neurophysiol
|
2006
|
2.62
|
|
6
|
Unconscious affective reactions to masked happy versus angry faces influence consumption behavior and judgments of value.
|
Pers Soc Psychol Bull
|
2005
|
2.42
|
|
7
|
Positive and negative motivation in nucleus accumbens shell: bivalent rostrocaudal gradients for GABA-elicited eating, taste "liking"/"disliking" reactions, place preference/avoidance, and fear.
|
J Neurosci
|
2002
|
2.30
|
|
8
|
Opioid limbic circuit for reward: interaction between hedonic hotspots of nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum.
|
J Neurosci
|
2007
|
2.18
|
|
9
|
Ventral pallidum roles in reward and motivation.
|
Behav Brain Res
|
2008
|
2.12
|
|
10
|
The ventral pallidum and hedonic reward: neurochemical maps of sucrose "liking" and food intake.
|
J Neurosci
|
2005
|
2.10
|
|
11
|
Endocannabinoid hedonic hotspot for sensory pleasure: anandamide in nucleus accumbens shell enhances 'liking' of a sweet reward.
|
Neuropsychopharmacology
|
2007
|
2.09
|
|
12
|
Disentangling pleasure from incentive salience and learning signals in brain reward circuitry.
|
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
|
2011
|
2.09
|
|
13
|
Hyperdopaminergic mutant mice have higher "wanting" but not "liking" for sweet rewards.
|
J Neurosci
|
2003
|
2.00
|
|
14
|
Towards a functional neuroanatomy of pleasure and happiness.
|
Trends Cogn Sci
|
2009
|
1.98
|
|
15
|
Hedonic hot spots in the brain.
|
Neuroscientist
|
2006
|
1.96
|
|
16
|
Instant transformation of learned repulsion into motivational "wanting".
|
Curr Biol
|
2013
|
1.96
|
|
17
|
Neural correlates of social and nonsocial emotions: An fMRI study.
|
Neuroimage
|
2006
|
1.82
|
|
18
|
Which cue to "want?" Central amygdala opioid activation enhances and focuses incentive salience on a prepotent reward cue.
|
J Neurosci
|
2009
|
1.81
|
|
19
|
Emotional environments retune the valence of appetitive versus fearful functions in nucleus accumbens.
|
Nat Neurosci
|
2008
|
1.80
|
|
20
|
Mesolimbic dopamine in desire and dread: enabling motivation to be generated by localized glutamate disruptions in nucleus accumbens.
|
J Neurosci
|
2008
|
1.76
|
|
21
|
Enkephalin surges in dorsal neostriatum as a signal to eat.
|
Curr Biol
|
2012
|
1.74
|
|
22
|
Ventral pallidal neurons code incentive motivation: amplification by mesolimbic sensitization and amphetamine.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2005
|
1.64
|
|
23
|
Glutamate motivational ensembles in nucleus accumbens: rostrocaudal shell gradients of fear and feeding.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2003
|
1.62
|
|
24
|
Dynamic computation of incentive salience: "wanting" what was never "liked".
|
J Neurosci
|
2009
|
1.55
|
|
25
|
Nucleus accumbens corticotropin-releasing factor increases cue-triggered motivation for sucrose reward: paradoxical positive incentive effects in stress?
|
BMC Biol
|
2006
|
1.49
|
|
26
|
A neural computational model of incentive salience.
|
PLoS Comput Biol
|
2009
|
1.48
|
|
27
|
Model-based and model-free Pavlovian reward learning: revaluation, revision, and revelation.
|
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
|
2014
|
1.22
|
|
28
|
Ventral pallidal representation of pavlovian cues and reward: population and rate codes.
|
J Neurosci
|
2004
|
1.21
|
|
29
|
Dopamine or opioid stimulation of nucleus accumbens similarly amplify cue-triggered 'wanting' for reward: entire core and medial shell mapped as substrates for PIT enhancement.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2013
|
1.19
|
|
30
|
Desire and dread from the nucleus accumbens: cortical glutamate and subcortical GABA differentially generate motivation and hedonic impact in the rat.
|
PLoS One
|
2010
|
1.12
|
|
31
|
Reward uncertainty enhances incentive salience attribution as sign-tracking.
|
Behav Brain Res
|
2012
|
1.10
|
|
32
|
Nucleus accumbens dopamine/glutamate interaction switches modes to generate desire versus dread: D(1) alone for appetitive eating but D(1) and D(2) together for fear.
|
J Neurosci
|
2011
|
1.10
|
|
33
|
Which cue to 'want'? Opioid stimulation of central amygdala makes goal-trackers show stronger goal-tracking, just as sign-trackers show stronger sign-tracking.
|
Behav Brain Res
|
2012
|
1.09
|
|
34
|
What and when to "want"? Amygdala-based focusing of incentive salience upon sugar and sex.
|
Psychopharmacology (Berl)
|
2011
|
1.08
|
|
35
|
Mapping brain circuits of reward and motivation: in the footsteps of Ann Kelley.
|
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
|
2012
|
1.07
|
|
36
|
Dopamine receptor modulation of repetitive grooming actions in the rat: potential relevance for Tourette syndrome.
|
Brain Res
|
2010
|
1.06
|
|
37
|
Basal ganglia neural mechanisms of natural movement sequences.
|
Can J Physiol Pharmacol
|
2004
|
1.04
|
|
38
|
Opioid hedonic hotspot in nucleus accumbens shell: mu, delta, and kappa maps for enhancement of sweetness "liking" and "wanting".
|
J Neurosci
|
2014
|
1.01
|
|
39
|
Prefrontal cortex modulates desire and dread generated by nucleus accumbens glutamate disruption.
|
Biol Psychiatry
|
2012
|
0.98
|
|
40
|
An orexin hotspot in ventral pallidum amplifies hedonic 'liking' for sweetness.
|
Neuropsychopharmacology
|
2013
|
0.98
|
|
41
|
Substantia nigra pars reticulata neurons code initiation of a serial pattern: implications for natural action sequences and sequential disorders.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2002
|
0.92
|
|
42
|
The functional neuroanatomy of pleasure and happiness.
|
Discov Med
|
2010
|
0.92
|
|
43
|
Endogenous opioids are necessary for benzodiazepine palatability enhancement: naltrexone blocks diazepam-induced increase of sucrose-'liking'.
|
Pharmacol Biochem Behav
|
2005
|
0.88
|
|
44
|
Excessive disgust caused by brain lesions or temporary inactivations: mapping hotspots of the nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2014
|
0.87
|
|
45
|
Metabotropic glutamate receptor blockade in nucleus accumbens shell shifts affective valence towards fear and disgust.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2010
|
0.83
|
|
46
|
Dopamine D1 activation shortens the duration of phases in stereotyped grooming sequences.
|
Behav Processes
|
2005
|
0.82
|
|
47
|
Differential subjective and psychophysiological responses to socially and nonsocially generated emotional stimuli.
|
Emotion
|
2006
|
0.82
|
|
48
|
Nucleus accumbens GABAergic inhibition generates intense eating and fear that resists environmental retuning and needs no local dopamine.
|
Eur J Neurosci
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
49
|
The Neuroscience of Happiness and Pleasure.
|
Soc Res (New York)
|
2010
|
0.79
|
|
50
|
The joyful mind.
|
Sci Am
|
2012
|
0.78
|
|
51
|
Decision Utility, Incentive Salience, and Cue-Triggered "Wanting"
|
Oxf Ser Soc Cogn Soc Neurosci
|
2009
|
0.76
|