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Latest papers
Discriminative properties of rewarding electrical brain stimulation.
Physiology & behavior · 2025
Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates?
The European journal of neuroscience · 2024 · senior author
The priming effect of rewarding brain stimulation in rats depends on both the cost and strength of reward but survives blockade of D2-like dopamine receptors.
The European journal of neuroscience · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $210,000
The role of midbrain dopamine neurons in reward prediction and reward seeking
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $155,000
Psychophysical, computational, and neurochemical analysis of gustatory reward
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
- $253,100
Functional organization of brain reward circuitry
NSERC · 2006 · Principal investigator
29 publications.
Discriminative properties of rewarding electrical brain stimulation.
Pacheco-Gomez BL, Zepeda-Ruiz WA, Velazquez-Lopez D, Shizgal P, Velazquez-Martinez DN
Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates?
Carter F, Cossette MP, Trujillo-Pisanty I, Pallikaras V, Breton YA, Conover K, Caplan J, Solis P, Voisard J, Yaksich A, Shizgal P
The priming effect of rewarding brain stimulation in rats depends on both the cost and strength of reward but survives blockade of D2-like dopamine receptors.
Evangelista C, Mehrez N, Boisvert EE, Brake WG, Shizgal P
Dopamine and Beyond: Implications of Psychophysical Studies of Intracranial Self-Stimulation for the Treatment of Depression.
Pallikaras V, Shizgal P
The Convergence Model of Brain Reward Circuitry: Implications for Relief of Treatment-Resistant Depression by Deep-Brain Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle.
Pallikaras V, Shizgal P
The trade-off between pulse duration and power in optical excitation of midbrain dopamine neurons approximates Bloch's law.
Pallikaras V, Carter F, Velazquez-Martinez DN, Arvanitogiannis A, Shizgal P
Dopamine neurons do not constitute an obligatory stage in the final common path for the evaluation and pursuit of brain stimulation reward.
Trujillo-Pisanty I, Conover K, Solis P, Palacios D, Shizgal P
The priming effect of food persists following blockade of dopamine receptors.
Evangelista C, Hantson A, Shams WM, Almey A, Pileggi M, Voisard JR, Boulos V, Al-Qadri Y, Gonzalez Cautela BV, Zhou FX, Duchemin J, Habrich A, Tito N, Koumrouyan RA, Patel S, Lorenc V, Gagne C, El Oufi K, Shizgal P, Brake WG
Learning to use past evidence in a sophisticated world model.
Ahilan S, Solomon RB, Breton YA, Conover K, Niyogi RK, Shizgal P, Dayan P
17β-estradiol locally increases phasic dopamine release in the dorsal striatum.
Shams WM, Cossette MP, Shizgal P, Brake WG
The role of midbrain dopamine neurons in reward prediction and reward seeking
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
Psychophysical, computational, and neurochemical analysis of gustatory reward
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
Functional organization of brain reward circuitry
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
Brain reward circuitry and the regulation of energy balance
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
Computer-controlled test stations for experiments on brain stimulationreward
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
Neural mechanisms of goal evaluation
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
RISC workstation server
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
Processing of gustatory information in the basal forebrain of the rat
Principal investigators: Shizgal, Peter
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Stephanie Fulton and Peter Shizgal: 1 shared paper
- Nadia Chaudhri and Peter Shizgal: 1 shared paper
- Cecilia Flores and Peter Shizgal: 1 shared paper
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