Pedro Rada

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

• Excessive sugar intake alters binding to dopamine and mu-opioid receptors in the brain

  C. Colantuoni;J. Schwenker;J. McCarthy;P. Rada

  597
  Citations

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

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

  496
  Citations

• Dopamine microdialysis in the nucleus accumbens during acute and chronic morphine, naloxone-precipitated withdrawal and clonidine treatment

  Emmanuel Pothos;Pedro Rada;Gregory P. Mark;Bartley G. Hoebel

  342
  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

• 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

• Lecozotan (SRA-333): A Selective Serotonin 1A Receptor Antagonist That Enhances the Stimulated Release of Glutamate and Acetylcholine in the Hippocampus and Possesses Cognitive-Enhancing Properties

  Lee E Schechter;Deborah Smith;Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson;Stacey Sukoff

  195
  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

• Orexigenic peptides and alcohol intake: differential effects of orexin, galanin, and ghrelin.

  Eve R. Schneider;Pedro Rada;Ryan D. Darby;Sarah F. Leibowitz

  186
  Citations

• Effects of feeding and drinking on acetylcholine release in the nucleus accumbens, striatum, and hippocampus of freely behaving rats

  Gregory P. Mark;Pedro Rada;Emmanuel Pothos;Bartley G. Hoebel

  184
  Citations

• Inescapable stress enhances extracellular acetylcholine in the rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex but not the nucleus accumbens or amygdala

  G. P. Mark;P. V. Rada;P. V. Rada;Tracey Shors

  182
  Citations

• Neural systems for reinforcement and inhibition of behavior: Relevance to eating, addiction, and depression.

  Bartley G. Hoebel;Pedro V. Rada;Gregory P. Mark;Emmanuel N. Pothos

  179
  Citations

• Physical Exercise Prevents Stress-Induced Activation of Granule Neurons and Enhances Local Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Dentate Gyrus

  Timothy J. Schoenfeld;Pedro Rada;Pedro R. Pieruzzini;Brian Hsueh

  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

• Effects of nicotine and mecamylamine-induced withdrawal on extracellular dopamine and acetylcholine in the rat nucleus accumbens.

  Pedro Rada;Kristin Jensen;Bartley G. Hoebel

  171
  Citations

• Reduced accumbens dopamine in Sprague-Dawley rats prone to overeating a fat-rich diet.

  Pedro Rada;Miriam E. Bocarsly;Jessica R. Barson;Bartley G. Hoebel

  161
  Citations

• Acetylcholine release in ventral tegmental area by hypothalamic self-stimulation, eating, and drinking.

  Pedro V Rada;Gregory P Mark;Gregory P Mark;John J Yeomans;Bartley G Hoebel

  158
  Citations