Milan D. Valyear

This study shows that dopamine signaling in the medial accumbens shell limits the duration of behaviors while reinforcing their frequency, mediated by D1 receptors.

This study investigates sex differences in how alcohol-associated contexts influence responding to an alcohol-predictive cue in rats.

The paper shows that different mesolimbic dopamine circuits mediate alcohol-seeking in response to discrete cues versus contextual cues.