Morales, Marisela

The brain on drugs: from reward to addiction

Volkow, N. D., & Morales, M. (2015) · Cell

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Ventral tegmental area: cellular heterogeneity, connectivity and behaviour

Morales, M., & Margolis, E. B. (2017) · Nature reviews. Neuroscience

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Single rodent mesohabenular axons release glutamate and GABA

Root, D. H., Mejias-Aponte, C. A., Zhang, S., Wang, H.-L., Hoffman, A. F., Lupica, C. R., & Morales, M. (2014) · Nature Neuroscience

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Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models

Venniro, M., Zhang, M., Caprioli, D., Hoots, J. K., Golden, S. A., Heins, C., Morales, M., Epstein, D. H., & Shaham, Y. (2018) · Nature Neuroscience

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Mesocorticolimbic Glutamatergic Pathway

Yamaguchi, T., Wang, H.-L., Li, X., Ng, T. H., & Morales, M. (2011) · Journal of Neuroscience

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Glutamatergic and nonglutamatergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area establish local synaptic contacts with dopaminergic and nondopaminergic neurons

Dobi, A., Margolis, E. B., Wang, H.-L., Harvey, B. K., & Morales, M. (2010) · The Journal of Neuroscience

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Dopaminergic and glutamatergic microdomains in a subset of rodent mesoaccumbens axons

Zhang, S., Qi, J., Li, X., Wang, H.-L., Britt, J. P., Hoffman, A. F., Bonci, A., Lupica, C. R., & Morales, M. (2015) · Nature Neuroscience

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Role of Projections from Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Nucleus Accumbens Shell in Context-Induced Reinstatement of Heroin Seeking

Bossert, J. M., Stern, A. L., Theberge, F. R. M., Marchant, N. J., Wang, H.-L., Morales, M., & Shaham, Y. (2012) · The Journal of Neuroscience

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Glutamate neurons within the midbrain dopamine regions

Morales, M., & Root, D. H. (2014) · Neuroscience

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Dopamine neurons respond to errors in the prediction of sensory features of expected rewards

Takahashi, Y. K., Batchelor, H. M., Liu, B., Khanna, A., Morales, M., & Schoenbaum, G. (2017) · Neuron

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Dorsal raphe dual serotonin-glutamate neurons drive reward by establishing excitatory synapses on VTA mesoaccumbens dopamine neurons

Wang, H.-L., Zhang, S., Qi, J., Wang, H., Cachope, R., Mejias-Aponte, C. A., Gomez, J. A., Mateo-Semidey, G. E., Beaudoin, G. M. J., Paladini, C. A., et al. (2019) · Cell Reports

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The anterior insular cortex→central amygdala glutamatergic pathway is critical to relapse after contingency management

Venniro, M., Caprioli, D., Zhang, M., Whitaker, L. R., Zhang, S., Warren, B. L., Cifani, C., Marchant, N. J., Yizhar, O., Bossert, J. M., et al. (2017) · Neuron

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Selective brain distribution and distinctive synaptic architecture of dual glutamatergic-GABAergic neurons

Root, D. H., Zhang, S., Barker, D. J., Miranda-Barrientos, J., Liu, B., Wang, H.-L., & Morales, M. (2018) · Cell Reports

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Expression of COUP-TFII Nuclear Receptor in Restricted GABAergic Neuronal Populations in the Adult Rat Hippocampus

Fuentealba, P., Klausberger, T., Karayannis, T., Suen, W. Y., Huck, J., Tomioka, R., Rockland, K., Capogna, M., Studer, M., Morales, M., et al. (2010) · The Journal of Neuroscience

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