| The ins and outs of the striatum: role in drug addiction LM Yager, AF Garcia, AM Wunsch, SM Ferguson Neuroscience 301, 529-541, 2015 | 526 | 2015 |
| Transient neuronal inhibition reveals opposing roles of indirect and direct pathways in sensitization SM Ferguson, D Eskenazi, M Ishikawa, MJ Wanat, PEM Phillips, Y Dong, ... Nature neuroscience 14 (1), 22-24, 2011 | 480 | 2011 |
| One is not enough: understanding and modeling polysubstance use EA Crummy, TJ O’Neal, BM Baskin, SM Ferguson Frontiers in Neuroscience 14, 541662, 2020 | 203 | 2020 |
| The rate of cocaine administration alters gene regulation and behavioral plasticity: implications for addiction AN Samaha, N Mallet, SM Ferguson, F Gonon, TE Robinson Journal of Neuroscience 24 (28), 6362-6370, 2004 | 145 | 2004 |
| Efferent pathways of the mouse lateral habenula LA Quina, L Tempest, L Ng, JA Harris, S Ferguson, TC Jhou, EE Turner Journal of Comparative Neurology 523 (1), 32-60, 2015 | 135 | 2015 |
| Knockout of ERK1 enhances cocaine-evoked immediate early gene expression and behavioral plasticity SM Ferguson, S Fasano, P Yang, R Brambilla, TE Robinson Neuropsychopharmacology 31 (12), 2660-2668, 2006 | 129 | 2006 |
| How early media exposure may affect cognitive function: A review of results from observations in humans and experiments in mice DA Christakis, JSB Ramirez, SM Ferguson, S Ravinder, JM Ramirez Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (40), 9851-9858, 2018 | 124 | 2018 |
| Antidepressant-like effects of the subtype-selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist, SIB-1508Y, in the learned helplessness rat model of depression SM Ferguson, JD Brodkin, G Kenneth Lloyd, F Menzaghi Psychopharmacology 152, 295-303, 2000 | 112 | 2000 |
| Direct-pathway striatal neurons regulate the retention of decision-making strategies SM Ferguson, PEM Phillips, BL Roth, J Wess, JF Neumaier Journal of Neuroscience 33 (28), 11668-11676, 2013 | 95 | 2013 |
| The paraventricular thalamus is a critical mediator of top-down control of cue-motivated behavior in rats P Campus, IR Covelo, Y Kim, A Parsegian, BN Kuhn, SA Lopez, ... Elife 8, e49041, 2019 | 82 | 2019 |
| Amphetamine‐evoked gene expression in striatopallidal neurons: regulation by corticostriatal afferents and the ERK/MAPK signaling cascade SM Ferguson, TE Robinson Journal of neurochemistry 91 (2), 337-348, 2004 | 73 | 2004 |
| 5‐HT1B receptors in nucleus accumbens efferents enhance both rewarding and aversive effects of cocaine SK Barot, SM Ferguson, JF Neumaier European Journal of Neuroscience 25 (10), 3125-3131, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Increased expression of 5-HT6 receptors in the nucleus accumbens blocks the rewarding but not psychomotor activating properties of cocaine SM Ferguson, ES Mitchell, JF Neumaier Biological psychiatry 63 (2), 207-213, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| Morphine-induced c-fos mRNA expression in striatofugal circuits: modulation by dose, environmental context, and drug history SM Ferguson, MJ Thomas, TE Robinson Neuropsychopharmacology 29 (9), 1664-1674, 2004 | 57 | 2004 |
| Amphetamine‐evoked c‐fos mRNA expression in the caudate‐putamen: the effects of DA and NMDA receptor antagonists vary as a function of neuronal phenotype … SM Ferguson, CS Norton, SJ Watson, H Akil, TE Robinson Journal of neurochemistry 86 (1), 33-44, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| Chemogenetic modulation of accumbens direct or indirect pathways bidirectionally alters reinstatement of heroin-seeking in high-but not low-risk rats TJ O’Neal, MN Nooney, K Thien, SM Ferguson Neuropsychopharmacology 45 (8), 1251-1262, 2020 | 50 | 2020 |
| Grateful DREADDs: engineered receptors reveal how neural circuits regulate behavior SM Ferguson, JF Neumaier Neuropsychopharmacology 37 (1), 296, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
| Corticostriatal afferents modulate responsiveness to psychostimulant drugs and drug-associated stimuli KA Kerstetter, AM Wunsch, KG Nakata, E Donckels, JF Neumaier, ... Neuropsychopharmacology 41 (4), 1128-1137, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| Cocaine‐induced psychomotor activity is associated with its ability to induce c‐fos mRNA expression in the subthalamic nucleus: effects of dose and repeated … JM Uslaner, HS Crombag, SM Ferguson, TE Robinson European Journal of Neuroscience 17 (10), 2180-2186, 2003 | 41 | 2003 |
| Convergent neural connectivity in motor impulsivity and high-fat food binge-like eating in male Sprague-Dawley rats NC Anastasio, SJ Stutz, AE Price, BD Davis-Reyes, DJ Sholler, ... Neuropsychopharmacology 44 (10), 1752-1761, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
