List of works - Benjamin T Saunders

A cocaine context renews drug seeking preferentially in a subset of individuals

scientific article

A cocaine cue acts as an incentive stimulus in some but not others: implications for addiction.

scientific article

Aversive Stimuli Differentially Modulate Real-Time Dopamine Transmission Dynamics within the Nucleus Accumbens Core and Shell ⬇️

scientific article published on November 7, 2012

Brain reward network effects underlie septo-hippocampal control of flexible decision making

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Contemporary approaches to neural circuit manipulation and mapping: focus on reward and addiction.

scientific article published in September 2015

Cue-evoked cocaine "craving": role of dopamine in the accumbens core.

scientific article published on August 2013

Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Effects of acute and repeated administration of caffeine on temporal discounting in rats.

scientific article

Heterogeneity in striatal dopamine circuits: Form and function in dynamic reward seeking

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Individual Variation in the Motivational Properties of Cocaine ⬇️

scientific article published on April 6, 2011

Nucleus accumbens plasticity underlies multifaceted behavioral changes associated with addiction.

scientific article

On the motivational properties of reward cues: Individual differences.

scientific article published on 07 June 2013

Positive reinforcement mediated by midbrain dopamine neurons requires D1 and D2 receptor activation in the nucleus accumbens

scientific article

Preclinical studies shed light on individual variation in addiction vulnerability.

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Quantifying individual variation in the propensity to attribute incentive salience to reward cues.

scientific article

Rats prone to attribute incentive salience to reward cues are also prone to impulsive action.

scientific article

Ring of Power: A Band of Peptidergic Midbrain Neurons that Binds Motivation

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Shedding light on the role of ventral tegmental area dopamine in reward.

scientific article published on December 2011

Sign-tracking to an appetitive cue predicts incubation of conditioned fear in rats

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The role of dopamine in the accumbens core in the expression of Pavlovian-conditioned responses.

scientific article

Variation in the form of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior among outbred male Sprague-Dawley rats from different vendors and colonies: sign-tracking vs. goal-tracking

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List of works by Benjamin T Saunders

A cocaine context renews drug seeking preferentially in a subset of individuals

A cocaine cue acts as an incentive stimulus in some but not others: implications for addiction.

Aversive Stimuli Differentially Modulate Real-Time Dopamine Transmission Dynamics within the Nucleus Accumbens Core and Shell ⬇️

Brain reward network effects underlie septo-hippocampal control of flexible decision making

Contemporary approaches to neural circuit manipulation and mapping: focus on reward and addiction.

Cue-evoked cocaine "craving": role of dopamine in the accumbens core.

Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties

Effects of acute and repeated administration of caffeine on temporal discounting in rats.

Heterogeneity in striatal dopamine circuits: Form and function in dynamic reward seeking

Individual Variation in the Motivational Properties of Cocaine ⬇️

Nucleus accumbens plasticity underlies multifaceted behavioral changes associated with addiction.

On the motivational properties of reward cues: Individual differences.

Positive reinforcement mediated by midbrain dopamine neurons requires D1 and D2 receptor activation in the nucleus accumbens

Preclinical studies shed light on individual variation in addiction vulnerability.

Quantifying individual variation in the propensity to attribute incentive salience to reward cues.

Rats prone to attribute incentive salience to reward cues are also prone to impulsive action.

Ring of Power: A Band of Peptidergic Midbrain Neurons that Binds Motivation

Shedding light on the role of ventral tegmental area dopamine in reward.

Sign-tracking to an appetitive cue predicts incubation of conditioned fear in rats

The role of dopamine in the accumbens core in the expression of Pavlovian-conditioned responses.

Variation in the form of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior among outbred male Sprague-Dawley rats from different vendors and colonies: sign-tracking vs. goal-tracking