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Wolfgang Hauber is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work extensively covers receptor mechanisms and signaling, as well as neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior. Additional research topics include stress responses and cortisol, neuropeptides and animal physiology, regulation of appetite and obesity, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Wolfgang Hauber has published in several academic journals, including:

  • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • European Journal of Pharmacology
  • Cerebral Cortex Communications

Recent papers by Hauber include:

  • Effects of GPR139 agonism on effort expenditure for food reward in rodent models: Evidence for pro-motivational actions, 2022, Neuropharmacology
  • Dopamine D1 receptors in the medial orbitofrontal cortex support effort-related responding in rats, 2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Effects of Motivational Downshifts on Specific Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer in Rats, 2022, The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Pro-cognitive effects of the GlyT1 inhibitor Bitopertin in rodents, 2022, European Journal of Pharmacology
  • Role of the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex and Ventral Tegmental Area in Effort-Related Responding, 2020, Cerebral Cortex Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolfgang Hauber include Alexandra Münster, Susanne Sommer, Serena Deiana, Boris Ferger, and Angeline Votteler.

Best Publications

  • Involvement of basal ganglia transmitter systems in movement initiation

    Wolfgang Hauber

  • Prefrontostriatal Circuitry Regulates Effort-Related Decision Making

    Wolfgang Hauber;Susanne Sommer

  • Dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens core and shell mediate Pavlovian-instrumental transfer.

    Anja Lex;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Dopamine D1 Receptors in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Regulate Effort-Based Decision Making.

    Judith Schweimer;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Involvement of the rat anterior cingulate cortex in control of instrumental responses guided by reward expectancy.

    Judith Schweimer;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Catalepsy induced by a blockade of dopamine D1 or D2 receptors was reversed by a concomitant blockade of adenosine A(2A) receptors in the caudate-putamen of rats.

    Wolfgang Hauber;Patric Neuscheler;Jens Nagel;Christa E. Müller

  • Involvement of catecholamine neurotransmission in the rat anterior cingulate in effort-related decision making.

    Judith Schweimer;Simone Saft;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Motor depressant effects mediated by dopamine D2 and adenosine A2A receptors in the nucleus accumbens and the caudate-putamen.

    Wolfgang Hauber;Manuela Münkle

  • Inactivation of the ventral tegmental area abolished the general excitatory influence of Pavlovian cues on instrumental performance.

    Anja Murschall;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Motivational states influence effort-based decision making in rats: The role of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens

    Bettina Mai;Susanne Sommer;Wolfgang Hauber

  • The Role of Dopamine in the Prelimbic Cortex and the Dorsomedial Striatum in Instrumental Conditioning

    Bjoern Lex;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Behavioural pharmacology of glutamate in the basal ganglia.

    Werner J. Schmidt;Michael Bubser;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Facilitative effects of an adenosine A1/A2 receptor blockade on spatial memory performance of rats: selective enhancement of reference memory retention during the light period.

    W Hauber;A Bareiß

  • Effort-Based Decision Making in the rat: An [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose Micro Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Heike Endepols;Susanne Sommer;Heiko Backes;Dirk Wiedermann

  • Orbital prefrontal cortex and guidance of instrumental behaviour in rats under reversal conditions.

    Ines Bohn;Christian Giertler;Wolfgang Hauber

  • Motor effects induced by a blockade of adenosine A2A receptors in the caudate-putamen.

    Hauber W;Nagel J;Sauer R;Müller Ce

  • NMDA, but not dopamine D(2), receptors in the rat nucleus accumbens areinvolved in guidance of instrumental behavior by stimuli predicting reward magnitude.

    Wolfgang Hauber;Ines Bohn;Christian Giertler

  • Dopamine D1 or D2 receptor blockade in the globus pallidus produces akinesia in the rat.

    Wolfgang Hauber;Sylke Lutz

  • Effects of an adenosine A2A receptor blockade in the nucleus accumbens on locomotion, feeding, and prepulse inhibition in rats.

    Jens Nagel;Henning Schladebach;Michael Koch;Isabel Schwienbacher

  • The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in outcome encoding in instrumental and Pavlovian conditioning

    Bjoern Lex;Wolfgang Hauber

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner J. Schmidt
Werner J. Schmidt University of Tübingen
Michael Koch
Michael Koch University of Bremen
Michael Bubser
Michael Bubser Vanderbilt University
Markus Fendt
Markus Fendt Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

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