Motivation

Individual Differences in Volitional Social Self-Administration and Motivation in Male and Female Mice Following Social Stress
Background A key challenge in developing treatments for neuropsychiatric illness is the disconnect between preclinical models and the …
Jovana Navarrete, Kevin N. Schneider, Briana M. Smith, Nastacia L. Goodwin, Yizhe Y. Zhang, Axelle S. Salazar, Yahir E. Gonzalez, Pranav Anumolu, Ethan Gross, Valerie S. Tsai, Mitra Heshmati, Sam A. Golden
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Dissociable control of motivation and reinforcement by distinct ventral striatal dopamine receptors
Dopamine release in striatal circuits, including the nucleus accumbens (NAc), tracks separable features of reward such as motivation …
Juan Enriquez-Traba, Hector E. Yarur-Castillo, Rodolfo J. Flores, Tenley Weil, Snehashis Roy, Ted B. Usdin, Christina T. LaGamma, Miguel Arenivar, Huikun Wang, Valerie S. Tsai, Amy E. Moritz, David R. Sibley, Rosario Moratalla, Zachary Z. Freyberg, Hugo A. Tejeda
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Sex differences in appetitive and reactive aggression
Aggression is an evolutionarily conserved, adaptive component of social behavior. Studies in male mice illustrate that aggression is …
Antonio v. Aubry, C. Joseph Burnett, Nastacia L. Goodwin, Long Li, Jovana Navarrete, Yizhe Zhang, Valerie Tsai, Romain Durand-De Cuttoli, Sam A. Golden, Scott J. Russo
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