Marisela Morales

Overview

Best Publications

• The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction.

  Nora D. Volkow;Marisela Morales

  1483
  Citations

• Ventral tegmental area: cellular heterogeneity, connectivity and behaviour.

  Marisela Morales;Elyssa B. Margolis

  1156
  Citations

• Pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei contain distinct populations of cholinergic, glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the rat

  Hui-Ling Wang;Marisela Morales

  638
  Citations

• Selective activation of cholinergic interneurons enhances accumbal phasic dopamine release: setting the tone for reward processing

  Roger Cachope;Yolanda Mateo;Brian N. Mathur;James Irving

  557
  Citations

• The 5-HT3 receptor is present in different subpopulations of GABAergic neurons in the rat telencephalon.

  Marisela Morales;Floyd E. Bloom

  529
  Citations

• Glutamatergic neurons are present in the rat ventral tegmental area

  Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi;Whitney Sheen;Marisela Morales

  500
  Citations

• Mesocorticolimbic Glutamatergic Pathway

  Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi;Hui-Ling Wang;Xueping Li;Tsz H. Ng

  433
  Citations

• Single rodent mesohabenular axons release glutamate and GABA

  David H Root;Carlos A Mejias-Aponte;Shiliang Zhang;Hui-Ling Wang

  367
  Citations

• Discharge profiles across the sleep-waking cycle of identified cholinergic, GABAergic, and glutamatergic neurons in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum of the rat

  Soufiane Boucetta;Youssouf Cissé;Lynda Mainville;Marisela Morales

  359
  Citations

• Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models.

  Marco Venniro;Michelle Zhang;Daniele Caprioli;Jennifer K. Hoots

  350
  Citations

• Time-dependent changes in extinction behavior and stress-induced reinstatement of drug seeking following withdrawal from heroin in rats

  Uri Shalev;Marisela Morales;Bruce Hope;Jasmine Yap

  337
  Citations

• Dopaminergic and glutamatergic microdomains in a subset of rodent mesoaccumbens axons

  Shiliang Zhang;Jia Qi;Xueping Li;Hui-Ling Wang

  293
  Citations

• Glutamatergic and Nonglutamatergic Neurons of the Ventral Tegmental Area Establish Local Synaptic Contacts with Dopaminergic and Nondopaminergic Neurons

  Alice Dobi;Elyssa B. Margolis;Hui-Ling Wang;Brandon K. Harvey

  289
  Citations

• Distribution of neurons expressing immunoreactivity for the 5HT3 receptor subtype in the rat brain and spinal cord.

  Marisela Morales;Elena Battenberg;Floyd E. Bloom

  278
  Citations

• Role of Projections from Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Nucleus Accumbens Shell in Context-Induced Reinstatement of Heroin Seeking

  Jennifer M. Bossert;Anna L. Stern;Florence R.M. Theberge;Nathan J. Marchant

  261
  Citations

• Glutamate neurons within the midbrain dopamine regions

  Marisela Morales;David H. Root

  258
  Citations

• Differential Composition of 5-Hydroxytryptamine3Receptors Synthesized in the Rat CNS and Peripheral Nervous System

  Marisela Morales;Shwun-De Wang

  256
  Citations

• Role of Glutamatergic Projections from Ventral Tegmental Area to Lateral Habenula in Aversive Conditioning

  David H. Root;Carlos A. Mejias-Aponte;Jia Qi;Marisela Morales

  254
  Citations

• Identification of Rat Ventral Tegmental Area GABAergic Neurons

  Elyssa B. Margolis;Brian Toy;Patricia Himmels;Marisela Morales

  245
  Citations

• VTA glutamatergic inputs to nucleus accumbens drive aversion by acting on GABAergic interneurons

  Jia Qi;Shiliang Zhang;Hui-Ling Wang;David J Barker

  234
  Citations