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List of works by Alexxai V Kravitz

A competitive model for striatal action selection

scientific article published on 06 October 2018

A ventrolateral medulla-midline thalamic circuit for hypoglycemic feeding

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Activation of Direct and Indirect Pathway Medium Spiny Neurons Drives Distinct Brain-wide Responses.

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Basal Ganglia Dysfunction Contributes to Physical Inactivity in Obesity.

scientific article

Biphasic effect of melanocortin agonists on metabolic rate and body temperature

scientific article (publication date: 5 August 2014)

Cell-specific pallidal intervention induces long-lasting motor recovery in dopamine-depleted mice.

scientific article

Challenges in quantifying food intake in rodents

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Continuous Representations of Speed by Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Coordinated Ramping of Dorsal Striatal Pathways preceding Food Approach and Consumption

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

Cortico-striatal circuits: Novel therapeutic targets for substance use disorders.

scientific article published on 09 April 2015

Distinct roles for direct and indirect pathway striatal neurons in reinforcement.

scientific article published on June 2012

Do Dopaminergic Impairments Underlie Physical Inactivity in People with Obesity?

scientific article

Enhanced GABA Transmission Drives Bradykinesia Following Loss of Dopamine D2 Receptor Signaling.

scientific article

ErbB4 Null Mice Display Altered Mesocorticolimbic and Nigrostriatal Dopamine Levels, as well as Deficits in Cognitive and Motivational Behaviors

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Essential Control of the Function of the Striatopallidal Neuron by Pre-coupled Complexes of Adenosine A2A-Dopamine D2 Receptor Heterotetramers and Adenylyl Cyclase.

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Feeding Experimentation Device (FED): A flexible open-source device for measuring feeding behavior.

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

Feeding Experimentation Device (FED): Construction and Validation of an Open-source Device for Measuring Food Intake in Rodents. ⬇️

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Glutamatergic Ventral Pallidal Neurons Modulate Activity of the Habenula-Tegmental Circuitry and Constrain Reward Seeking.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Hilar GABAergic interneuron activity controls spatial learning and memory retrieval

scientific article

Increases in Physical Activity Result in Diminishing Increments in Daily Energy Expenditure in Mice

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Nucleus accumbens medium spiny neuron subtypes mediate depression-related outcomes to social defeat stress

scientific article

Optogenetic and chemogenetic insights into the food addiction hypothesis.

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

Optogenetic identification of striatal projection neuron subtypes during in vivo recordings.

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Optogenetic manipulation of neural circuitry in vivo.

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Optogenetics, physiology, and emotions

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Orbitofrontal and insular cortex: neural responses to cocaine-associated cues and cocaine self-administration.

scientific article published in January 2010

Orbitofrontal-striatal potentiation underlies cocaine-induced hyperactivity

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Persistent effects of obesity: a neuroplasticity hypothesis

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Physiologic brain activity causes DNA double-strand breaks in neurons, with exacerbation by amyloid-β

scientific article

Potentiation of divergent medial amygdala pathways drives experience-dependent aggression escalation

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Prefrontal single-unit firing associated with deficient extinction in mice.

scientific article

Quantifying recording quality in in vivo striatal recordings

scientific article published on 5 January 2015

ROBucket: A low cost operant chamber based on the Arduino microcontroller.

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry

scientific article

Rodent Activity Detector (RAD), an Open Source Device for Measuring Activity in Rodent Home Cages

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Rodent Arena Tracker (RAT): a machine vision rodent tracking camera and closed loop control system

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Session-long modulations of accumbal firing during sucrose-reinforced operant behavior.

scientific article published in November 2006

Striatal Mechanisms Underlying Movement, Reinforcement, and Punishment ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Striatopallidal neurons control avoidance behavior in exploratory tasks.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

TMEM135 links peroxisomes to the regulation of brown fat mitochondrial fission and energy homeostasis

scientific article published on 29 September 2023

The Future Is Open: Open-Source Tools for Behavioral Neuroscience Research

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Weight Loss After Obesity is Associated with Increased Food Motivation and Faster Weight Regain in Mice

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Why Do Mice Overeat High-Fat Diets? How High-Fat Diet Alters the Regulation of Daily Caloric Intake in Mice

scientific article published on 29 April 2018

Working together: basal ganglia pathways in action selection

scientific article

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