List of works - Merce Correa

Accumbens dopamine and the regulation of effort in food-seeking behavior: modulation of work output by different ratio or force requirements.

scientific article published in May 2004

Acetate as an active metabolite of ethanol: studies of locomotion, loss of righting reflex, and anxiety in rodents.

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Adenosine A2A receptor antagonism and genetic deletion attenuate the effects of dopamine D2 antagonism on effort-based decision making in mice.

scientific article published on 10 January 2012

Anxiogenic and stress-inducing effects of peripherally administered acetaldehyde in mice: Similarities with the disulfiram–ethanol reaction ⬇️

scientific article published on October 8, 2011

Beyond the reward hypothesis: alternative functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine.

scientific article

Brain catalase activity is highly correlated with ethanol-induced locomotor activity in mice.

scientific article published in July 2001

Bupropion increases selection of high effort activity in rats tested on a progressive ratio/chow feeding choice procedure: implications for treatment of effort-related motivational symptoms

scientific article

Catalase inhibition in the Arcuate nucleus blocks ethanol effects on the locomotor activity of rats.

scientific article published on 16 December 2004

Central vs. peripheral administration of ethanol, acetaldehyde and acetate in rats: effects on lever pressing and response initiation.

scientific article

Changes in nucleus accumbens and neostriatal c-Fos and DARPP-32 immunoreactivity during different stages of food-reinforced instrumental training.

scientific article

Comparison between multiple behavioral effects of peripheral ethanol administration in rats: sedation, ataxia, and bradykinesia.

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

Cyanamide reduces brain catalase and ethanol-induced locomotor activity: is there a functional link?

scientific article

Differences between the nonselective adenosine receptor antagonists caffeine and theophylline in motor and mood effects: studies using medium to high doses in animal models.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Dopamine agonists suppress cholinomimetic-induced tremulous jaw movements in an animal model of Parkinsonism: tremorolytic effects of pergolide, ropinirole and CY 208-243.

scientific article

Dopamine and food addiction: lexicon badly needed.

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

Dopamine depletion shifts behavior from activity based reinforcers to more sedentary ones and adenosine receptor antagonism reverses that shift: Relation to ventral striatum DARPP32 phosphorylation patterns.

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Dopamine/adenosine interactions involved in effort-related aspects of food motivation

scientific article published on 25 July 2009

Dopaminergic modulation of effort-related choice behavior as assessed by a progressive ratio chow feeding choice task: pharmacological studies and the role of individual differences

scientific article

Effects of chronic lead administration on ethanol-induced locomotor and brain catalase activity.

scientific article

Effects of the adenosine A 2A antagonist KW 6002 (istradefylline) on pimozide-induced oral tremor and striatal c-Fos expression: comparisons with the muscarinic antagonist tropicamide.

scientific article published on 23 May 2009

Effort-related functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine and associated forebrain circuits

scientific article

Effort-related motivational effects of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin 1-beta: studies with the concurrent fixed ratio 5/ chow feeding choice task

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Ethanol intake and motor sensitization: the role of brain catalase activity in mice with different genotypes.

scientific article

Injections of the selective adenosine A2A antagonist MSX-3 into the nucleus accumbens core attenuate the locomotor suppression induced by haloperidol in rats.

scientific article published on 21 December 2006

Lead acetate potentiates brain catalase activity and enhances ethanol-induced locomotion in mice

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Lession on the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus by estradiol valerate results in a blockade of ethanol-induced locomotion

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Locomotor stimulant effects of intraventricular injections of low doses of ethanol in rats: acute and repeated administration.

scientific article published on 30 August 2003

Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Regulation of Motivated Behavior

scientific article

Motivational views of reinforcement: implications for understanding the behavioral functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine.

scientific article

Motor behavior and brain enzymatic changes after acute lead intoxication on different strains of mice.

scientific article

Neostriatal muscarinic receptor subtypes involved in the generation of tremulous jaw movements in rodents implications for cholinergic involvement in parkinsonism.

scientific article published in April 2001

Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and the Regulation of Effort in Food-Seeking Behavior: Implications for Studies of Natural Motivation, Psychiatry, and Drug Abuse

scientific article

Nucleus accumbens and effort-related functions: behavioral and neural markers of the interactions between adenosine A2A and dopamine D2 receptors.

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions make animals highly sensitive to high fixed ratio requirements but do not impair primary food reinforcement.

scientific article

Nucleus accumbens neurotransmission and effort-related choice behavior in food motivation: effects of drugs acting on dopamine, adenosine, and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Partial reversal of the effort-related motivational effects of tetrabenazine with the MAO-B inhibitor deprenyl (selegiline): Implications for treating motivational dysfunctions.

scientific article

Piecing together the puzzle of acetaldehyde as a neuroactive agent

scientific article

Potential anxiogenic effects of cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists/inverse agonists in rats: comparisons between AM4113, AM251, and the benzodiazepine inverse agonist FG-7142.

scientific article

Ratio and time requirements on operant schedules: effort-related effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions.

scientific article published in March 2005

Reduction in the anxiolytic effects of ethanol by centrally formed acetaldehyde: the role of catalase inhibitors and acetaldehyde-sequestering agents.

scientific article published on 30 June 2008

Slow phasic changes in nucleus accumbens dopamine release during fixed ratio acquisition: a microdialysis study.

scientific article published on 25 August 2011

The VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine affects effort-related decision making in a progressive ratio/chow feeding choice task: reversal with antidepressant drugs.

scientific article

The VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine alters effort-related decision making as measured by the T-maze barrier choice task: reversal with the adenosine A2A antagonist MSX-3 and the catecholamine uptake blocker bupropion

scientific article

The adenosine A2A antagonist KF17837 reverses the locomotor suppression and tremulous jaw movements induced by haloperidol in rats: possible relevance to parkinsonism.

scientific article published in January 2004

The behavioral pharmacology of effort-related choice behavior: dopamine, adenosine and beyond ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

The ethanol-induced open-field activity in rodents treated with isethionic acid, a central metabolite of taurine

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

The mysterious motivational functions of mesolimbic dopamine.

scientific article

The renaissance of acetaldehyde as a psychoactive compound: decades in the making.

scientific article

c-Fos immunoreactivity in prefrontal, basal ganglia and limbic areas of the rat brain after central and peripheral administration of ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde.

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

List of works by Merce Correa

Accumbens dopamine and the regulation of effort in food-seeking behavior: modulation of work output by different ratio or force requirements.

Acetate as an active metabolite of ethanol: studies of locomotion, loss of righting reflex, and anxiety in rodents.

Adenosine A2A receptor antagonism and genetic deletion attenuate the effects of dopamine D2 antagonism on effort-based decision making in mice.

Anxiogenic and stress-inducing effects of peripherally administered acetaldehyde in mice: Similarities with the disulfiram–ethanol reaction ⬇️

Beyond the reward hypothesis: alternative functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine.

Brain catalase activity is highly correlated with ethanol-induced locomotor activity in mice.

Bupropion increases selection of high effort activity in rats tested on a progressive ratio/chow feeding choice procedure: implications for treatment of effort-related motivational symptoms

Catalase inhibition in the Arcuate nucleus blocks ethanol effects on the locomotor activity of rats.

Central vs. peripheral administration of ethanol, acetaldehyde and acetate in rats: effects on lever pressing and response initiation.

Changes in nucleus accumbens and neostriatal c-Fos and DARPP-32 immunoreactivity during different stages of food-reinforced instrumental training.

Comparison between multiple behavioral effects of peripheral ethanol administration in rats: sedation, ataxia, and bradykinesia.

Cyanamide reduces brain catalase and ethanol-induced locomotor activity: is there a functional link?

Differences between the nonselective adenosine receptor antagonists caffeine and theophylline in motor and mood effects: studies using medium to high doses in animal models.

Dopamine agonists suppress cholinomimetic-induced tremulous jaw movements in an animal model of Parkinsonism: tremorolytic effects of pergolide, ropinirole and CY 208-243.

Dopamine and food addiction: lexicon badly needed.

Dopamine depletion shifts behavior from activity based reinforcers to more sedentary ones and adenosine receptor antagonism reverses that shift: Relation to ventral striatum DARPP32 phosphorylation patterns.

Dopamine/adenosine interactions involved in effort-related aspects of food motivation

Dopaminergic modulation of effort-related choice behavior as assessed by a progressive ratio chow feeding choice task: pharmacological studies and the role of individual differences

Effects of chronic lead administration on ethanol-induced locomotor and brain catalase activity.

Effects of the adenosine A 2A antagonist KW 6002 (istradefylline) on pimozide-induced oral tremor and striatal c-Fos expression: comparisons with the muscarinic antagonist tropicamide.

Effort-related functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine and associated forebrain circuits

Effort-related motivational effects of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin 1-beta: studies with the concurrent fixed ratio 5/ chow feeding choice task

Ethanol intake and motor sensitization: the role of brain catalase activity in mice with different genotypes.

Injections of the selective adenosine A2A antagonist MSX-3 into the nucleus accumbens core attenuate the locomotor suppression induced by haloperidol in rats.

Lead acetate potentiates brain catalase activity and enhances ethanol-induced locomotion in mice

Lession on the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus by estradiol valerate results in a blockade of ethanol-induced locomotion

Locomotor stimulant effects of intraventricular injections of low doses of ethanol in rats: acute and repeated administration.

Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Regulation of Motivated Behavior

Motivational views of reinforcement: implications for understanding the behavioral functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine.

Motor behavior and brain enzymatic changes after acute lead intoxication on different strains of mice.

Neostriatal muscarinic receptor subtypes involved in the generation of tremulous jaw movements in rodents implications for cholinergic involvement in parkinsonism.

Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and the Regulation of Effort in Food-Seeking Behavior: Implications for Studies of Natural Motivation, Psychiatry, and Drug Abuse

Nucleus accumbens and effort-related functions: behavioral and neural markers of the interactions between adenosine A2A and dopamine D2 receptors.

Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions make animals highly sensitive to high fixed ratio requirements but do not impair primary food reinforcement.

Nucleus accumbens neurotransmission and effort-related choice behavior in food motivation: effects of drugs acting on dopamine, adenosine, and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.

Partial reversal of the effort-related motivational effects of tetrabenazine with the MAO-B inhibitor deprenyl (selegiline): Implications for treating motivational dysfunctions.

Piecing together the puzzle of acetaldehyde as a neuroactive agent

Potential anxiogenic effects of cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists/inverse agonists in rats: comparisons between AM4113, AM251, and the benzodiazepine inverse agonist FG-7142.

Ratio and time requirements on operant schedules: effort-related effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions.

Reduction in the anxiolytic effects of ethanol by centrally formed acetaldehyde: the role of catalase inhibitors and acetaldehyde-sequestering agents.

Slow phasic changes in nucleus accumbens dopamine release during fixed ratio acquisition: a microdialysis study.

The VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine affects effort-related decision making in a progressive ratio/chow feeding choice task: reversal with antidepressant drugs.

The VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine alters effort-related decision making as measured by the T-maze barrier choice task: reversal with the adenosine A2A antagonist MSX-3 and the catecholamine uptake blocker bupropion

The adenosine A2A antagonist KF17837 reverses the locomotor suppression and tremulous jaw movements induced by haloperidol in rats: possible relevance to parkinsonism.

The behavioral pharmacology of effort-related choice behavior: dopamine, adenosine and beyond ⬇️

The ethanol-induced open-field activity in rodents treated with isethionic acid, a central metabolite of taurine

The mysterious motivational functions of mesolimbic dopamine.

The renaissance of acetaldehyde as a psychoactive compound: decades in the making.

c-Fos immunoreactivity in prefrontal, basal ganglia and limbic areas of the rat brain after central and peripheral administration of ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde.