Peter W. Kalivas

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice

  Peter W. Kalivas;Nora D. Volkow

  3585
  Citations

• Dopamine transmission in the initiation and expression of drug- and stress-induced sensitization of motor activity

  Peter W. Kalivas;Jane Stewart

  2452
  Citations

• Alterations in dopaminergic and glutamatergic transmission in the induction and expression of behavioral sensitization: a critical review of preclinical studies.

  L. J. M. J. Vanderschuren;P. W. Kalivas

  1593
  Citations

• Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat.

  L. Heimer;D.S. Zahm;L. Churchill;P.W. Kalivas

  1508
  Citations

• A circuitry model of the expression of behavioral sensitization to amphetamine-like psychostimulants

  R.Christopher Pierce;Peter W Kalivas

  1498
  Citations

• The glutamate homeostasis hypothesis of addiction

  Peter W. Kalivas

  1495
  Citations

• Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications

  Steven C. Cramer;Mriganka Sur;Bruce H. Dobkin;Charles J O'Brien

  1427
  Citations

• The Circuitry Mediating Cocaine-Induced Reinstatement of Drug-Seeking Behavior

  Krista McFarland;Peter W. Kalivas

  1106
  Citations

• Prefrontal glutamate release into the core of the nucleus accumbens mediates cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior.

  Krista McFarland;Christopher C. Lapish;Peter W. Kalivas

  1054
  Citations

• The cystine/glutamate antiporter system xc- in health and disease: From molecular mechanisms to novel therapeutic opportunities

  Jan Lewerenz;Sandra J. Hewett;Ying Huang;Maria Lambros

  1014
  Citations

• Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity

  Peter W Kalivas;Charles O'Brien

  955
  Citations

• Neurotransmitter regulation of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area.

  Peter W. Kalivas

  910
  Citations

• Extinction circuits for fear and addiction overlap in prefrontal cortex

  Jamie Peters;Peter W. Kalivas;Gregory J. Quirk

  886
  Citations

• Neuroadaptations in cystine-glutamate exchange underlie cocaine relapse.

  David A Baker;Krista McFarland;Russell W Lake;Hui Shen

  880
  Citations

• Drug Wanting: Behavioral Sensitization and Relapse to Drug-Seeking Behavior

  Jeffery D. Steketee;Peter W. Kalivas

  845
  Citations

• Unmanageable motivation in addiction: a pathology in prefrontal-accumbens glutamate transmission.

  P.W. Kalivas;N. Volkow;J. Seamans

  805
  Citations

• Neurotensin: topographical distribution in rat brain by immunohistochemistry.

  Lothar Jennes;Walter E. Stumpf;Peter W. Kalivas

  785
  Citations

• Repeated cocaine augments excitatory amino acid transmission in the nucleus accumbens only in rats having developed behavioral sensitization

  RC Pierce;K Bell;P Duffy;PW Kalivas

  767
  Citations

• Neuroadaptations involved in amphetamine and cocaine addiction.

  Francis J White;Peter W Kalivas

  744
  Citations

• Brain circuitry and the reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior.

  Peter W. Kalivas;Krista McFarland

  726
  Citations