| Ventral tegmental area: cellular heterogeneity, connectivity and behaviour M Morales, EB Margolis Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18 (2), 73-85, 2017 | 1001 | 2017 |
| Ventral tegmental area neurons in learned appetitive behavior and positive reinforcement HL Fields, GO Hjelmstad, EB Margolis, SM Nicola Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 30, 289-316, 2007 | 749 | 2007 |
| The ventral tegmental area revisited: is there an electrophysiological marker for dopaminergic neurons? EB Margolis, H Lock, GO Hjelmstad, HL Fields The Journal of physiology 577 (3), 907-924, 2006 | 647 | 2006 |
| Understanding opioid reward HL Fields, EB Margolis Trends in neurosciences 38 (4), 217-225, 2015 | 421 | 2015 |
| κ opioids selectively control dopaminergic neurons projecting to the prefrontal cortex EB Margolis, H Lock, VI Chefer, TS Shippenberg, GO Hjelmstad, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (8), 2938-2942, 2006 | 375 | 2006 |
| Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties BT Saunders, JM Richard, EB Margolis, PH Janak Nature neuroscience 21 (8), 1072-1083, 2018 | 334 | 2018 |
| κ-Opioid agonists directly inhibit midbrain dopaminergic neurons EB Margolis, GO Hjelmstad, A Bonci, HL Fields Journal of Neuroscience 23 (31), 9981-9986, 2003 | 333 | 2003 |
| Midbrain dopamine neurons: projection target determines action potential duration and dopamine D2 receptor inhibition EB Margolis, JM Mitchell, J Ishikawa, GO Hjelmstad, HL Fields Journal of Neuroscience 28 (36), 8908-8913, 2008 | 284 | 2008 |
| Nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons target non-dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area Y Xia, JR Driscoll, L Wilbrecht, EB Margolis, HL Fields, GO Hjelmstad Journal of Neuroscience 31 (21), 7811-7816, 2011 | 280 | 2011 |
| Glutamatergic and nonglutamatergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area establish local synaptic contacts with dopaminergic and nondopaminergic neurons A Dobi, EB Margolis, HL Wang, BK Harvey, M Morales Journal of Neuroscience 30 (1), 218-229, 2010 | 269 | 2010 |
| Identification of rat ventral tegmental area GABAergic neurons EB Margolis, B Toy, P Himmels, M Morales, HL Fields PloS one 7 (7), e42365, 2012 | 236 | 2012 |
| New insights into the specificity and plasticity of reward and aversion encoding in the mesolimbic system SF Volman, S Lammel, EB Margolis, Y Kim, JM Richard, MF Roitman, ... Journal of Neuroscience 33 (45), 17569-17576, 2013 | 202 | 2013 |
| Loss of mitochondrial fission depletes axonal mitochondria in midbrain dopamine neurons A Berthet, EB Margolis, J Zhang, I Hsieh, J Zhang, TS Hnasko, J Ahmad, ... Journal of Neuroscience 34 (43), 14304-14317, 2014 | 192 | 2014 |
| Opioid modulation of ventral pallidal afferents to ventral tegmental area neurons GO Hjelmstad, Y Xia, EB Margolis, HL Fields Journal of Neuroscience 33 (15), 6454-6459, 2013 | 125 | 2013 |
| Five decades of research on opioid peptides: Current knowledge and unanswered questions LD Fricker, EB Margolis, I Gomes, LA Devi Molecular Pharmacology 98 (2), 96-108, 2020 | 112 | 2020 |
| Direct bidirectional μ-opioid control of midbrain dopamine neurons EB Margolis, GO Hjelmstad, W Fujita, HL Fields Journal of Neuroscience 34 (44), 14707-14716, 2014 | 109 | 2014 |
| Relative contributions and mapping of ventral tegmental area dopamine and GABA neurons by projection target in the rat JM Breton, AR Charbit, BJ Snyder, PTK Fong, EV Dias, P Himmels, ... Journal of Comparative Neurology 527 (5), 916-941, 2019 | 106 | 2019 |
| δ-Opioid receptor expression in the ventral tegmental area protects against elevated alcohol consumption EB Margolis, HL Fields, GO Hjelmstad, JM Mitchell Journal of Neuroscience 28 (48), 12672-12681, 2008 | 105 | 2008 |
| Both kappa and mu opioid agonists inhibit glutamatergic input to ventral tegmental area neurons EB Margolis, GO Hjelmstad, A Bonci, HL Fields Journal of neurophysiology 93 (6), 3086-3093, 2005 | 100 | 2005 |
| Biased signaling by endogenous opioid peptides I Gomes, S Sierra, L Lueptow, A Gupta, S Gouty, EB Margolis, BM Cox, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (21), 11820-11828, 2020 | 94 | 2020 |
