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Jesse A Mendoza

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Lafferty C, Yang A, Mendoza J, Britt J
Cell Rep . 2020 Mar; 30(11):3729-3742.e3. PMID: 32187545
The nucleus accumbens (NAc) contributes to behavioral inhibition and compulsions, but circuit mechanisms are unclear. Recent evidence suggests that amygdala and thalamic inputs exert opposing control over behavior, much like...
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Yang A, Mendoza J, Lafferty C, Lacroix F, Britt J
Biol Psychiatry . 2019 Nov; 87(7):597-608. PMID: 31699294
Background: Insight into the neural basis of hedonic processing has come from studies of food palatability in rodents. Pharmacological manipulations of the nucleus accumbens shell (NAcSh) have repeatedly been demonstrated ...
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Mendoza J, Lafferty C, Yang A, Britt J
Cell Rep . 2019 Nov; 29(6):1429-1437.e3. PMID: 31693885
Cue-evoked midbrain dopamine (DA) neuron activity reflects expected value, but its influence on reward assessment is unclear. In mice performing a trial-based operant task, we test if bidirectional manipulations of...
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Reed S, Lafferty C, Mendoza J, Yang A, Davidson T, Grosenick L, et al.
Neuron . 2018 Aug; 99(6):1260-1273.e4. PMID: 30146308
Reward-seeking behavior is regulated by a diverse collection of inputs to the nucleus accumbens (NAc). The information encoded in each excitatory afferent to the NAc is unknown, in part because...