Brandon S. Bentzley

This study shows that integrating inverse dopamine and serotonin signals in the striatum is essential for associative learning.

This study shows that striatal dopamine release encodes cost, benefit, and motivation during operant tasks, with motivation inversely correlated with reward-evoked dopamine.

This study investigates how early-life adversity affects vulnerability to opioid addiction in rats, finding that it leads to addiction-like behaviors and altered reward circuitry.

This study shows that the number of lateral hypothalamus orexin neurons correlates with individual differences in cocaine demand and that reducing these neurons decreases cocaine motivation.

The paper uses chemogenetic manipulation to explore the role of VTA dopamine neuron G-protein signaling in cocaine-related behaviors, revealing distinct effects based on signaling pathways and behavioral context.