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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter Shizgal is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and primarily focuses on Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist has produced a significant body of research, evidenced by a collection of recent papers that explore various aspects of brain function and neurophysiology. Notable publications include:

  • "Dopamine neurons do not constitute an obligatory stage in the final common path for the evaluation and pursuit of brain stimulation reward" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "The Convergence Model of Brain Reward Circuitry: Implications for Relief of Treatment-Resistant Depression by Deep-Brain Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle" (2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • "Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates?" (2023, European Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "The trade-off between pulse duration and power in optical excitation of midbrain dopamine neurons approximates Bloch's law" (2021, Behavioural Brain Research)
  • "Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates?" (2022, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Peter Shizgal's research has also been published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Journal of Neuroscience, SSRN Electronic Journal, PLoS ONE, and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. These outlets reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work within the neuroscientific community.

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Peter Shizgal include Vasilios Pallikaras, Francis Carter, David N. Velázquez-Martínez, Ivan Trujillo-Pisanty, and Kent Conover. These collaborations have contributed to a range of studies in related fields.

The main topics covered in Peter Shizgal's work include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and neural engineering
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Functional brain connectivity studies

In 2006, Peter Shizgal was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Functional Imaging of Neural Responses to Expectancy and Experience of Monetary Gains and Losses

    Hans C. Breiter;Itzhak Aharon;Daniel Kahneman;Anders Dale

  • Modulation of brain reward circuitry by leptin.

    Stephanie Fulton;Barbara Woodside;Peter Shizgal

  • A portrait of the substrate for self-stimulation.

    C. R. Gallistel;Peter Shizgal;John S. Yeomans

  • Neural basis of utility estimation.

    Peter Shizgal

  • Evidence implicating descending fibers in self-stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle

    C Bielajew;P Shizgal

  • On the Neural Computation of Utility

    Peter Shizgal;Kent Conover

  • Behavioral methods for inferring anatomical linkage between rewarding brain stimulation sites.

    Shizgal P;Bielajew C;Corbett D;Skelton R

  • On the neural computation of utility: implications from studies of brain stimulation reward

    Peter Shizgal

  • Behaviorally derived measures of conduction velocity in the substrate for rewarding medial forebrain bundle stimulation

    Catherine Bielajew;Peter Shizgal

  • Prolonged rewarding stimulation of the rat medial forebrain bundle: neurochemical and behavioral consequences.

    Giovanni Hernandez;Selma Hamdani;Heshmat Rajabi;Kent Conover

  • Competition and summation between rewarding effects of sucrose and lateral hypothalamic stimulation in the rat

    Kent L. Conover;Peter Shizgal

  • Serotonin Transporter

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  • Gambling on Dopamine

    Peter Shizgal;Andreas Arvanitogiannis

  • Effects of excitotoxic lesions of the basal forebrain on MFB self-stimulation

    Andreas Arvanitogiannis;Meg Waraczynski;Peter Shizgal

  • The substrates for lateral hypothalamic and medial pre-frontal cortex self-stimulation have different refractory periods and show poor spatial summation

    Susan Schenk;Peter Shizgal

  • Increased ipsilateral expression of Fos following lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation

    Arvanitogiannis A;Flores C;Pfaus Jg;Shizgal P

  • At What Stage of Neural Processing Does Cocaine Act to Boost Pursuit of Rewards

    Giovanni Hernandez;Yannick André Breton;Kent Conover;Peter Shizgal

  • Effects of sodium depletion on competition and summation between rewarding effects of salt and lateral hypothalamic stimulation in the rat

    Kent L. Conover;Barbara Woodside;Peter Shizgal

  • Glutamate injection into the suprachiasmatic nucleus stimulates brown fat thermogenesis in the rat

    Shimon Amir;Peter Shizgal;Pierre-Paul Rompre´

  • Electrophysiological characteristics of neurons in forebrain regions implicated in self-stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle in the rat

    Pierre-Paul Rompré;Peter Shizgal

  • Fos-like immunoreactivity in the caudal diencephalon and brainstem following lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation

    Andreas Arvanitogiannis;Cecilia Flores;Peter Shizgal

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Schenk
Susan Schenk Victoria University of Wellington
Shimon Amir
Shimon Amir Concordia University
Cecilia Flores
Cecilia Flores McGill University
Charles R. Gallistel
Charles R. Gallistel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joseph F. Cheer
Joseph F. Cheer University of Maryland, Baltimore
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Roy A. Wise
Roy A. Wise National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dale Corbett
Dale Corbett University of Ottawa
Hans C. Breiter
Hans C. Breiter University of Cincinnati

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