Stan Floresco

Research interests

Publications

• The Nucleus Accumbens: An Interface Between Cognition, Emotion, and Action

  Annual Review of Psychology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115159

• Prefrontal dopamine and behavioral flexibility: shifting from an “inverted-U” toward a family of functions

  Frontiers in Neuroscience · 2013 · 10.3389/fnins.2013.00062

• Abrupt Transitions between Prefrontal Neural Ensemble States Accompany Behavioral Transitions during Rule Learning

  Neuron · 2010 · 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.029

• Orexin A/Hypocretin-1 Selectively Promotes Motivation for Positive Reinforcers

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2009 · 10.1523/jneurosci.6096-08.2009

• Fundamental Contribution by the Basolateral Amygdala to Different Forms of Decision Making

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2009 · 10.1523/jneurosci.0315-09.2009

• Prefrontal Cortical Contribution to Risk-Based Decision Making

  Cerebral Cortex · 2009 · 10.1093/cercor/bhp250

• Suppression of Amygdalar Endocannabinoid Signaling by Stress Contributes to Activation of the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis

  Neuropsychopharmacology · 2009 · 10.1038/npp.2009.114

• Dopaminergic Modulation of Risk-Based Decision Making

  Neuropsychopharmacology · 2008 · 10.1038/npp.2008.121

• Inactivation of the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat impairs strategy set-shifting, but not reversal learning, using a novel, automated procedure

  Behavioural Brain Research · 2008 · 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.008

• Cortico-limbic-striatal circuits subserving different forms of cost-benefit decision making

  Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience · 2008 · 10.3758/cabn.8.4.375

• Neural circuits subserving behavioral flexibility and their relevance to schizophrenia

  Behavioural Brain Research · 2008 · 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.12.001

• Dopaminergic and Glutamatergic Regulation of Effort- and Delay-Based Decision Making

  Neuropsychopharmacology · 2007 · 10.1038/sj.npp.1301565

• Regulation of firing of dopaminergic neurons and control of goal-directed behaviors

  Trends in Neurosciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2007.03.003

• Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortical Circuitry Regulates Effort-Based Decision Making

  Cerebral Cortex · 2006 · 10.1093/cercor/bhj143

• Mesocortical dopamine modulation of executive functions: beyond working memory

  Psychopharmacology · 2006 · 10.1007/s00213-006-0404-5

• Multiple Dopamine Receptor Subtypes in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of the Rat Regulate Set-Shifting

  Neuropsychopharmacology · 2005 · 10.1038/sj.npp.1300825

• Magnitude of Dopamine Release in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Accuracy of Memory on a Delayed Response Task

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2004 · 10.1523/jneurosci.4653-03.2004

• Afferent modulation of dopamine neuron firing differentially regulates tonic and phasic dopamine transmission

  Nature Neuroscience · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1103

• Modulation of Hippocampal and Amygdalar-Evoked Activity of Nucleus Accumbens Neurons by Dopamine: Cellular Mechanisms of Input Selection

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2001 · 10.1523/jneurosci.21-08-02851.2001

• Glutamatergic Afferents from the Hippocampus to the Nucleus Accumbens Regulate Activity of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2001 · 10.1523/jneurosci.21-13-04915.2001

• D1Receptor Modulation of Hippocampal–Prefrontal Cortical Circuits Integrating Spatial Memory with Executive Functions in the Rat

  Journal of Neuroscience · 1998 · 10.1523/jneurosci.18-04-01613.1998

• Selective Roles for Hippocampal, Prefrontal Cortical, and Ventral Striatal Circuits in Radial-Arm Maze Tasks With or Without a Delay

  Journal of Neuroscience · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.17-05-01880.1997

• Targeted disruption of the Huntington's disease gene results in embryonic lethality and behavioral and morphological changes in heterozygotes

  Cell · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(95)90542-1

• Functional differences between the prelimbic and anterior cingulate regions of the rat prefrontal cortex.

  Behavioral Neuroscience · 1995 · 10.1037//0735-7044.109.6.1063

• Functional differences between the prelimbic and anterior cingulate regions of the rat prefrontal cortex.

  Behavioral Neuroscience · 1995 · 10.1037/0735-7044.109.6.1063

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