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Garr E, Cheng Y, Jeong H, Brooke S, Castell L, Bal A, Magnard R, Namboodiri VMK, Janak PH. Mesostriatal dopamine is sensitive to changes in specific cue-reward contingencies. Science Advances. 2024.
Fraser KM, Kim TH, Castro M, Drieu C, Padovan-Hernandez Y, Chen BJ, Pat F, Ottenheimer DJ, Janak PH. Encoding and context-dependent control of reward consumption within the central nucleus of the amygdala. iScience. 2024.
Fraser KM & Chen BJ, Janak PH. Nucleus accumbens and dorsal medial striatal dopamine and neural activity are essential for action sequence performance. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2023.
Fraser KM & Janak PH. Basolateral amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex, but not dorsal hippocampus, are necessary for the control of reward-seeking by occasion setters. Psychopharmacology. 2023.
Vandaele Y, Ottenheimer DJ, Janak PH. Lack of action monitoring as a prerequisite for habitual and chunked behavior: Behavioral and neural correlates. iScience. 2023.
Vandaele Y, Ottenheimer DJ, Janak PH. Dorsomedial Striatal Activity Tracks Completion of Behavioral Sequences in Rats. eNeuro. 2021.
Lüscher C, Janak PH. Consolidating the Circuit Model for Addiction. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 2021.
Ottenheimer DJ, Wang K, Tong X, Fraser KM, Richard JM, Janak PH. Reward activity in ventral pallidum tracks satiety-sensitive preference and drives choice behavior. Science Advances. 2020.
Ottenheimer DJ, Bari BA, Sutlief E, Fraser KM, Kim TH, Richard JM, Cohen JY, Janak PH. A quantitative reward prediction error signal in the ventral pallidum. Nature Neuroscience. 2020.
Vandaele Y, Mahajan NR, Ottenheimer DJ, Richard JM, Mysore SP, Janak PH. Distinct recruitment of dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum erodes with extended training. eLife. 2019.
Ottenheimer DJ, Wang K, Haimbaugh A, Janak PH, Richard JM. Recruitment and disruption of ventral pallidal cue encoding during alcohol seeking. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2019.
Fraser KM & Janak PH. Occasion setters attain incentive motivational value: implications for contextual influences on reward-seeking. Learning & Memory. 2019.
Keiflin R, Pribut HJ, Shah NB, Janak PH. Ventral tegmental dopamine neurons participate in reward identity predictions. Current Biology. 2019.
Ottenheimer DJ, Richard JM, Janak PH. Ventral pallidum encodes relative reward value earlier and more robustly than nucleus accumbens. Nature Communications. 2018.
Saunders BT, Richard JM, Margolis EB, Janak PH. Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties. Nature Neuroscience. 2018.
Richard JM, Stout N, Acs D, Janak PH. Ventral pallidal encoding of reward-seeking behavior depends on the underlying associative structure. eLife. 2018.
Fischbach-Weiss S, Reese RM, Janak PH. Inhibiting mesolimbic dopamine neurons reduces the initiation and maintenance of instrumental responding. Neuroscience. 2018.
Vandaele Y, Pribut HJ, Janak PH. Lever insertion as a salient stimulus promoting insensitivity to outcome devaluation. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 2017.
Millan EZ, Kim HA, Janak PH. Optogenetic activation of amygdala projections to the nucleus accumbens can arrest conditioned and unconditioned alcohol consummatory behavior. Neuroscience. 2017.
Fraser KM & Janak PH. Long-lasting contribution of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens core, but not dorsal lateral striatum, to sign-tracking. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2017.
Richard JM, Ambroggi F, Janak PH, Fields HL. Ventral Pallidum Neurons Encode Incentive Value and Promote Cue-Elicited Instrumental Actions. Neuron. 2016.