List of works by Ryan Ting-A-Kee

A proposed resolution to the paradox of drug reward: Dopamine's evolution from an aversive signal to a facilitator of drug reward via negative reinforcement

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

A single administration of the hallucinogen, 4-acetoxy-dimethyltryptamine, prevents the shift to a drug-dependent state and the expression of withdrawal aversions in rodents.

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

BDNF signaling in the VTA links the drug-dependent state to drug withdrawal aversions

scientific article

Different neural systems mediate morphine reward and its spontaneous withdrawal aversion.

scientific article

Dopamine D1 receptors are not critical for opiate reward but can mediate opiate memory retrieval in a state-dependent manner

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Dopaminergic signaling mediates the motivational response underlying the opponent process to chronic but not acute nicotine

scientific article published on 23 December 2009

GABA(A) receptors mediate the opposing roles of dopamine and the tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus in the motivational effects of ethanol

scientific article published in March 2009

Infusion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor into the ventral tegmental area switches the substrates mediating ethanol motivation.

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Segregation of caffeine reward and aversion in the rat nucleus accumbens shell versus core

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Tegmental pedunculopontine glutamate and GABA-B synapses mediate morphine reward

scientific article published in February 2009

The neurobiology of opiate motivation

scientific article published on October 2012

Ventral tegmental area GABA neurons and opiate motivation

scientific article published on 8 February 2013