Most cited papers in Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
What are the most cited papers in Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior?
The most cited paper in Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior is "The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction" (Thompson Gordon Robinson, 1993), with 7,450 citations. Next come "Validation of open : closed arm entries in an elevated plus-maze as a measure of anxiety in the rat" (5,844) and "The Endophenotype Concept in Psychiatry: Etymology and Strategic Intentions" (5,667).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,861 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction Thompson Gordon Robinson · Brain Research Reviews | Dec 1993 | 7,450 |
| 2 | Validation of open : closed arm entries in an elevated plus-maze as a measure of anxiety in the rat Sharon Pellow, Philippe Chopin, Sandra E. File et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Methods | Aug 1985 | 5,844 |
| 3 | The Endophenotype Concept in Psychiatry: Etymology and Strategic Intentions Irving I. Gottesman, Todd D. Gould · American Journal of Psychiatry | 31 Mar 2003 | 5,667 |
| 4 | Isolation and Structure of a Brain Constituent That Binds to the Cannabinoid Receptor William A. Devane, Lumir Hanuš, Aviva Breuer et al. · Science | 18 Dec 1992 | 5,666 |
| 5 | The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations LINDA PATIA SPEAR · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews | Jun 2000 | 5,518 |
| 6 | REGIONAL STUDIES OF CATECHOLAMINES IN THE RAT BRAIN‐I Jacques Glowinski, Leslie Lars Iversen · Journal of Neurochemistry | Aug 1966 | 5,441 |
| 7 | Neurocircuitry of Addiction George F. Koob, Nora D. Volkow · Neuropsychopharmacology | 26 Aug 2009 | 5,334 |
| 8 | Association of Anxiety-Related Traits with a Polymorphism in the Serotonin Transporter Gene Regulatory Region Klaus‐Peter Lesch, Dietmar Bengel, Armin Heils et al. · Science | 29 Nov 1996 | 5,207 |
| 9 | Molecular characterization of a peripheral receptor for cannabinoids Sean Munro, Kerrie L. Thomas, Muna Abu-Shaar · Nature | Sep 1993 | 5,110 |
| 10 | Drugs abused by humans preferentially increase synaptic dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic system of freely moving rats. G. Di Chiara, Assunta Impérato · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Jul 1988 | 4,770 |
| 11 | AN INTEGRATIVE THEORY OF LOCUS COERULEUS-NOREPINEPHRINE FUNCTION: Adaptive Gain and Optimal Performance Gary Aston‐Jones, Jonathan D. Cohen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | 20 Jul 2005 | 4,723 |
| 12 | Predictive Reward Signal of Dopamine Neurons Wolfram Schultz · Journal of Neurophysiology | Jul 1998 | 4,658 |
| 13 | Depression: a new animal model sensitive to antidepressant treatments Roger D. Porsolt, Manuel Pichon, Maurice Jalfre · Nature | Apr 1977 | 4,476 |
| 14 | What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience? Kent C. Berridge, Terry E. Robinson · Brain Research Reviews | Dec 1998 | 4,184 |
| 15 | Antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients Robert Berman, Angela Cappiello, Amit N. Anand et al. · Biological Psychiatry | Feb 2000 | 3,904 |
| 16 | Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion Barry J. Everitt, Trevor William Robbins · Nature Neuroscience | 26 Oct 2005 | 3,854 |
| 17 | Stereotaxic Mapping of the Monoamine Pathways in the Rat Brain* Urban Ungerstedt · Acta Physiologica Scandinavica | Dec 1971 | 3,826 |
| 18 | The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging Suzanne N. Haber, Brian D Knutson · Neuropsychopharmacology | 7 Oct 2009 | 3,819 |
| 19 | A Randomized Trial of an N-methyl-D-aspartate Antagonist in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression Carlos A. Zarate, Jaskaran B. Singh, Paul J. Carlson et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | Aug 2006 | 3,806 |
| 20 | Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis George F. Koob, Nora D. Volkow · The Lancet Psychiatry | 27 Jul 2016 | 3,777 |
| 21 | Implications of Normal Brain Development for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia Daniel R. Weinberger · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jul 1987 | 3,761 |
| 22 | Multiple receptors for dopamine John W. Kebabian, Donald B. Calne · Nature | 1979 | 3,750 |
| 23 | A Systematic Method for Clinical Description and Classification of Personality Variants Claude Robert Cloninger · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 1987 | 3,708 |
| 24 | Dopamine Receptors: From Structure to Function Cristina Missale, Stuart Nash, Susan W. Robinson et al. · Physiological Reviews | 1998 | 3,654 |
| 25 | Unresponsiveness to Cannabinoids and Reduced Addictive Effects of Opiates in CB 1 Receptor Knockout Mice Catherine A. Ledent, Olga Valverde, G Cossu et al. · Science | 15 Jan 1999 | 3,620 |
| 26 | The tail suspension test: A new method for screening antidepressants in mice Lucien Stéru, Raymond Chermat, Bernard Thierry et al. · Psychopharmacology | Mar 1985 | 3,563 |
| 27 | THE CATECHOLAMINE HYPOTHESIS OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: A REVIEW OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE Joseph J. Schildkraut · American Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 1965 | 3,511 |
| 28 | Dopamine, learning and motivation Roy A. Wise · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 May 2004 | 3,443 |
| 29 | The Adolescent Brain Betty Jo Casey, Rebecca Merrill Jones, Todd Anthony Hare · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Mar 2008 | 3,289 |
| 30 | The open field as a paradigm to measure the effects of drugs on anxiety-like behaviors: a review Laetitia Prut, Catherine Belzung · European Journal of Pharmacology | Feb 2003 | 3,236 |
| 31 | Autoradiographic localization of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in rat nucleus accumbens: Resistance to differential rearing conditions M.T. Bardo, Ronald P. Hammer · Neuroscience | 1991 | 3,235 |
| 32 | A review of central 5-HT receptors and their function Nicholas M. Barnes, Trevor Sharp · Neuropharmacology | Aug 1999 | 3,185 |
| 33 | The use of the elevated plus maze as an assay of anxiety-related behavior in rodents Alicia A. Walf, Cheryl Anne Frye · Nature Protocols | Feb 2007 | 3,106 |
| 34 | D 1 and D 2 Dopamine Receptor-regulated Gene Expression of Striatonigral and Striatopallidal Neurons Charles R. Gerfen, Thomas M. Engber, Lawrence C. Mahan et al. · Science | 7 Dec 1990 | 2,996 |
| 35 | Drug Addiction, Dysregulation of Reward, and Allostasis G F Koob · Neuropsychopharmacology | Feb 2001 | 2,979 |
| 36 | Recent advances in the phencyclidine model of schizophrenia Daniel C. Javitt, Stephen R. Zukin · American Journal of Psychiatry | Oct 1991 | 2,933 |
| 37 | The Physiology, Signaling, and Pharmacology of Dopamine Receptors Jean‐Martin Beaulieu, Raul R. Gainetdinov · Pharmacological Reviews | 15 Feb 2011 | 2,809 |
| 38 | Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications Rita Z. Goldstein, Nora D. Volkow · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Oct 2011 | 2,806 |
| 39 | The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice Peter W. Kalivas, Nora D. Volkow · American Journal of Psychiatry | 29 Jul 2005 | 2,803 |
| 40 | The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: Version III--The Final Common Pathway Oliver Howes, Shitij Kapur · Schizophrenia Bulletin | 26 Mar 2009 | 2,724 |
| 41 | A psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction. Roy A. Wise, Michael A. Bozarth · Psychological Review | 1987 | 2,716 |
| 42 | Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex Rita Z. Goldstein, Nora D. Volkow · American Journal of Psychiatry | Oct 2002 | 2,703 |
| 43 | The Organization of Networks within the Orbital and Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Rats, Monkeys and Humans Döst Öngür · Cerebral Cortex | Mar 2000 | 2,686 |
| 44 | NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ADDICTION: The Role of Reward-Related Learning and Memory Steven E. Hyman, Robert C. Malenka, Eric J. Nestler · Annual Review of Neuroscience | 7 Apr 2006 | 2,676 |
| 45 | Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel dopamine receptor (D3) as a target for neuroleptics Pierre Sokoloff, Bruno Giros, Marie‐Pascale Martres et al. · Nature | Sep 1990 | 2,633 |
| 46 | The use of a plus-maze to measure anxiety in the mouse Richard G. Lister · Psychopharmacology | Jun 1987 | 2,623 |
| 47 | Drug Dependence, a Chronic Medical Illness A. Thomas McLellan, D. C. Lewis, Charles P. O’Brien et al. · JAMA | 4 Oct 2000 | 2,620 |
| 48 | Getting Formal with Dopamine and Reward Wolfram Schultz · Neuron | Oct 2002 | 2,611 |
| 49 | Drug Abuse: Hedonic Homeostatic Dysregulation George F. Koob, Michel Le Moal · Science | 3 Oct 1997 | 2,563 |
| 50 | The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders: focus on heroin and cocaine dependence Edward J. Khantzian · American Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 1985 | 2,542 |
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