Search Results - "Roitman, Jamie"
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Monotonic coding of numerosity in macaque lateral intraparietal area
Published in PLoS biology (01-08-2007)“…As any child knows, the first step in counting is summing up individual elements, yet the brain mechanisms responsible for this process remain obscure. Here we…”
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Ghrelin regulates phasic dopamine and nucleus accumbens signaling evoked by food‐predictive stimuli
Published in Journal of neurochemistry (01-06-2015)“…Environmental stimuli that signal food availability hold powerful sway over motivated behavior and promote feeding, in part, by activating the mesolimbic…”
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Chronic water restriction reduces sensitivity to brain stimulation reward in male and female rats
Published in Physiology & behavior (01-05-2023)“…•Acute water deprivation did not alter sensitivity to brain stimulation reward (BSR).•Chemogenetic activation of glutamatergic neurons in SFO also did not…”
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Thirst recruits phasic dopamine signaling through subfornical organ neurons
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-12-2020)“…Thirst is a highly potent drive that motivates organisms to seek out and consume balance-restoring stimuli. The detection of dehydration is well understood and…”
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Effects of chronic cannabinoid exposure during adolescence on reward preference and mPFC activation in adulthood
Published in Physiology & behavior (01-02-2019)“…Cannabis is one of the most commonly used drugs among adolescents, with initial use beginning between the ages of 12 to 17. Although often perceived as a ‘soft…”
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Response of Neurons in the Lateral Intraparietal Area during a Combined Visual Discrimination Reaction Time Task
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (01-11-2002)“…Decisions about the visual world can take time to form, especially when information is unreliable. We studied the neural correlate of gradual decision…”
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Probabilistic Population Codes for Bayesian Decision Making
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (26-12-2008)“…When making a decision, one must first accumulate evidence, often over time, and then select the appropriate action. Here, we present a neural model of…”
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Effects of voluntary alcohol intake on risk preference and behavioral flexibility during rat adolescence
Published in PloS one (09-07-2014)“…Alcohol use is common in adolescence, with a large portion of intake occurring during episodes of binging. This pattern of alcohol consumption coincides with a…”
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Linking neuroscience with modern concepts of impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease
Published in Movement disorders (01-02-2015)“…Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) may experience impulse control disorders (ICDs) when on dopamine agonist therapy for their motor symptoms. In the last…”
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Nucleus accumbens responses differentiate execution and restraint in reward-directed behavior
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (15-01-2014)“…Our behavior is powerfully driven by environmental cues that signal the availability of rewarding stimuli. We frequently encounter stimuli-a bowl of candy or…”
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Risk-preference differentiates orbitofrontal cortex responses to freely chosen reward outcomes
Published in The European journal of neuroscience (01-04-2010)“…To successfully evaluate potential courses of action and choose the most favorable, we must consider the outcomes that may result. Many choices involve risk,…”
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A Role for Neural Integrators in Perceptual Decision Making
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-11-2003)“…Decisions based on uncertain information may benefit from an accumulation of information over time. We asked whether such an accumulation process may underlie…”
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One-Dimensional Dynamics of Attention and Decision Making in LIP
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (10-04-2008)“…Where we allocate our visual spatial attention depends upon a continual competition between internally generated goals and external distractions. Recently it…”
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Olanzapine, but Not Fluoxetine, Treatment Increases Survival in Activity-Based Anorexia in Mice
Published in Neuropsychopharmacology (New York, N.Y.) (01-06-2012)“…Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by extreme hypophagia, hyperactivity, and fear of weight gain. No approved pharmacological treatments…”
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Acute and long-term effects of adolescent methylphenidate on decision-making and dopamine receptor mRNA expression in the orbitofrontal cortex
Published in Behavioural brain research (01-05-2017)“…•Adolescent methylphenidate (MPH) impaired reward size discrimination.•Delay discounting in adolescence was not affected by MPH.•In adulthood, adolescent MPH…”
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Nucleus accumbens shell, but not core, tracks motivational value of salt
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (01-09-2011)“…To appropriately respond to an affective stimulus, we must be able to track its value across changes in both the external and internal environment. The nucleus…”
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Hedonic and Nucleus Accumbens Neural Responses to a Natural Reward Are Regulated by Aversive Conditioning
Published in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) (01-11-2010)“…The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays a role in hedonic reactivity to taste stimuli. Learning can alter the hedonic valence of a given stimulus, and it remains…”
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Representation of numerosity in posterior parietal cortex
Published in Frontiers in integrative neuroscience (01-01-2012)“…Humans and animals appear to share a similar representation of number as an analog magnitude on an internal, subjective scale. Neurological and…”
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Brain Stimulation Reward Supports More Consistent and Accurate Rodent Decision-Making than Food Reward
Published in eNeuro (01-03-2017)“…Animal models of decision-making rely on an animal's motivation to decide and its ability to detect differences among various alternatives. Food reinforcement,…”
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Nonverbal representation of time and number in adults
Published in Acta psychologica (01-03-2007)“…A wealth of human and animal research supports common neural processing of numerical and temporal information. Here we test whether adult humans spontaneously…”
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