Nicole M. Avena

Best Publications

• Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake

  Nicole M. Avena;Pedro Rada;Bartley G. Hoebel

  1882
  Citations

• Evidence That Intermittent, Excessive Sugar Intake Causes Endogenous Opioid Dependence

  Carlo Colantuoni;Pedro Rada;Pedro Rada;Joseph McCarthy;Caroline Patten

  751
  Citations

• Daily bingeing on sugar repeatedly releases dopamine in the accumbens shell.

  P. Rada;N.M. Avena;B.G. Hoebel

  709
  Citations

• Sugar and Fat Bingeing Have Notable Differences in Addictive-like Behavior

  Nicole M. Avena;Pedro Rada;Bartley G. Hoebel

  496
  Citations

• Deficits of mesolimbic dopamine neurotransmission in rat dietary obesity.

  B. M. Geiger;M. Haburcak;N. M. Avena;N. M. Avena;M. C. Moyer

  481
  Citations

• High-fructose corn syrup causes characteristics of obesity in rats: increased body weight, body fat and triglyceride levels.

  Miriam E. Bocarsly;Elyse S. Powell;Nicole M. Avena;Nicole M. Avena;Bartley G. Hoebel

  451
  Citations

• A diet promoting sugar dependency causes behavioral cross-sensitization to a low dose of amphetamine.

  N.M. Avena;B.G. Hoebel

  357
  Citations

• Opiate-like effects of sugar on gene expression in reward areas of the rat brain.

  Rudolph Spangler;Knut M Wittkowski;Noel L Goddard;Nicole M Avena

  336
  Citations

• After daily bingeing on a sucrose solution, food deprivation induces anxiety and accumbens dopamine/acetylcholine imbalance.

  Nicole M. Avena;Miriam E. Bocarsly;Pedro Rada;Agnes Kim

  323
  Citations

• Hormonal and neural mechanisms of food reward, eating behaviour and obesity

  Susan Murray;Alastair Tulloch;Mark S. Gold;Nicole M. Avena

  288
  Citations

• Feeding and reward: Perspectives from three rat models of binge eating

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  282
  Citations

• Sugar-dependent rats show enhanced responding for sugar after abstinence: evidence of a sugar deprivation effect.

  Nicole M. Avena;Kristin A. Long;Bartley G. Hoebel

  279
  Citations

• Dysregulation of brain reward systems in eating disorders: Neurochemical information from animal models of binge eating, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa

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  259
  Citations

• Sucrose sham feeding on a binge schedule releases accumbens dopamine repeatedly and eliminates the acetylcholine satiety response.

  N.M. Avena;P. Rada;P. Rada;N. Moise;B.G. Hoebel

  241
  Citations

• Accumbens dopamine-acetylcholine balance in approach and avoidance.

  Bartley G Hoebel;Nicole M Avena;Pedro Rada

  235
  Citations

• Sugar-dependent rats show enhanced intake of unsweetened ethanol

  Nicole M. Avena;Carmen A. Carrillo;Lance Needham;Sarah F. Leibowitz

  200
  Citations

• Natural addiction: a behavioral and circuit model based on sugar addiction in rats.

  Bartley G. Hoebel;Nicole M. Avena;Miriam E. Bocarsly;Pedro Rada

  195
  Citations

• Amphetamine-sensitized rats show sugar-induced hyperactivity (cross-sensitization) and sugar hyperphagia.

  Nicole M Avena;Bartley G Hoebel

  179
  Citations

• UNDERWEIGHT RATS HAVE ENHANCED DOPAMINE RELEASE AND BLUNTED ACETYLCHOLINE RESPONSE IN THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS WHILE BINGEING ON SUCROSE

  N. M. Avena;P. Rada;P. Rada;B. G. Hoebel

  178
  Citations

• Further developments in the neurobiology of food and addiction: update on the state of the science.

  Nicole M. Avena;Jessica A. Gold;Cindy Kroll;Mark S. Gold

  167
  Citations