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Overview

Roy A. Wise is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with particular attention to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity

Recent publications by Roy A. Wise include:

  • "Dopamine and Addiction," 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Dopamine, behavior, and addiction," 2021, Journal of Biomedical Science

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Chloe J. Jordan
  • Antonello Bonci
  • Zheng-Xiong Xi
  • Mykel A. Robble
  • Rosa Anna Maria Marino

The scientist has published in various venues such as:

  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Journal of Biomedical Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Best Publications

  • Dopamine, learning and motivation

    Roy A. Wise

  • A psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction

    Roy A. Wise;Michael A. Bozarth

  • Brain dopamine and reward.

    Roy A. Wise;Pierre-Paul Rompré

  • How can drug addiction help us understand obesity

    Nora D Volkow;Roy A Wise

  • Neuroleptics and operant behavior: The anhedonia hypothesis

    Roy A. Wise

  • Brain Reward Circuitry: Insights from Unsensed Incentives

    Roy A. Wise

  • Neurobiology of addiction

    Roy A Wise

  • Addictive Drugs and Brain Stimulation Reward

    R A Wise

  • Catecholamine theories of reward: a critical review.

    Roy A. Wise

  • Drug-activation of brain reward pathways

    Roy A. Wise

  • Neuroadaptation. Incubation of cocaine craving after withdrawal.

    Jeffrey W. Grimm;Bruce T. Hope;Roy A. Wise;Yavin Shaham

  • The dopamine motive system: implications for drug and food addiction.

    Nora D Volkow;Roy A Wise;Ruben Baler

  • The neurobiology of craving: implications for the understanding and treatment of addiction.

    Roy A. Wise

  • Neuroleptic-induced "anhedonia" in rats: pimozide blocks reward quality of food.

    Roy A. Wise;Joan Spindler;Harriet deWit;Gary J. Gerberg

  • Synaptic and behavioral profile of multiple glutamatergic inputs to the nucleus accumbens

    Jonathan P. Britt;Faiza Benaliouad;Ross A. McDevitt;Garret D. Stuber

  • Dopamine Uptake through the Norepinephrine Transporter in Brain Regions with Low Levels of the Dopamine Transporter: Evidence from Knock-Out Mouse Lines

    José A. Morón;Alicia Brockington;Roy A. Wise;Beatriz A. Rocha

  • Dopamine and Reward: The Anhedonia Hypothesis 30 years on

    Roy A. Wise

  • Increased lever pressing for amphetamine after pimozide in rats: implications for a dopamine theory of reward.

    Robert A. Yokel;Roy A. Wise

  • Blockade of cocaine reinforcement in rats with the dopamine receptor blocker pimozide, but not with the noradrenergic blockers phentolamine or phenoxybenzamine.

    H De Wit;R A Wise

  • Intracranial self-administration of morphine into the ventral tegmental area in rats.

    Michael A. Bozarth;Roy A. Wise

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Carlezon
William A. Carlezon Harvard University
Eugene A. Kiyatkin
Eugene A. Kiyatkin National Institute on Drug Abuse
Satoshi Ikemoto
Satoshi Ikemoto National Institute on Drug Abuse
Bruce T. Hope
Bruce T. Hope National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dale Corbett
Dale Corbett University of Ottawa
Amina S. Woods
Amina S. Woods National Institute on Drug Abuse
Abraham Zangen
Abraham Zangen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
James E. Zadina
James E. Zadina Tulane University
Marcello Solinas
Marcello Solinas University of Poitiers
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health

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