Jocelyn M. Richard

This study investigates the role of basal forebrain to lateral habenula projections in ethanol and sucrose consumption using chemogenetic manipulation in rats.

This study shows that alcohol-related cues increase aversion-resistant drinking in rats compared to free drinking, suggesting cues uniquely motivate drinking despite negative consequences.

This study shows that activating ventral pallidal GABAergic neurons increases food and sucrose consumption in male rats but not female rats.

This study shows that inhibiting the ventral pallidum during alcohol cues reduces Pavlovian alcohol-seeking behavior in rats.

This study examines how outcome devaluation via sensory-specific satiety affects Pavlovian-conditioned behavior in male and female rats, finding sex differences in response sensitivity.

The paper investigates how VP GABA neurons encode reward-seeking behavior through calcium activity in response to cues and reward expectation in rats.

This study investigates the role of ventral pallidum to ventral tegmental area neurons in reward-seeking behavior, finding they reinforce but do not invigorate reward-seeking.

This study investigates how stress affects Pavlovian responses to alcohol-paired cues using a rat model, finding that yohimbine enhances responses but other stressors do not.

This study identifies RPE signals in the ventral pallidum that predict task engagement and influence reward-seeking behavior in rats.

This study examines how neural encoding of cue value in the ventral pallidum differs between Pavlovian and instrumental training in rats, and how alcohol exposure affects these representations.

This study shows that distinct midbrain dopamine circuits generate incentive value and movement invigoration through functionally heterogeneous signals during Pavlovian conditioning.