Margaret R. Zellner

Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States 
depression and kappa opioids
"Margaret Zellner"
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Robert Ranaldi grad student 2002-2008 CUNY
 (The role of NMDA receptors in the ventral tegmental area in the acquisition of reward -related learning.)
Donald Wells Pfaff post-doc 2008- Rockefeller
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Zellner MR. (2013) Dreaming and the default mode network: Some psychoanalytic notes Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 49: 226-232
Zellner MR. (2012) Toward a materialist metapsychology: Major operating principles of the brain provide a blueprint for a fundamentally psychodynamic infrastructure Psychoanalytic Review. 99: 563-588
Zellner MR. (2012) Cognitive and psychodynamic approaches to depression: Surprising similarities, but remaining key differences: Commentary on Aaron T. Beck, Emily A. P. Haigh, and Kari F. Baber's Paper Psychoanalytic Review. 99: 539-547
Ranaldi R, Kest K, Zellner M, et al. (2011) Environmental enrichment, administered after establishment of cocaine self-administration, reduces lever pressing in extinction and during a cocaine context renewal test. Behavioural Pharmacology. 22: 347-53
Zellner MR, Watt DF, Solms M, et al. (2011) Affective neuroscientific and neuropsychoanalytic approaches to two intractable psychiatric problems: why depression feels so bad and what addicts really want. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 35: 2000-8
Ranaldi R, Kest K, Zellner MR, et al. (2011) The effects of VTA NMDA receptor antagonism on reward-related learning and associated c-fos expression in forebrain. Behavioural Brain Research. 216: 424-32
Zellner MR, Ranaldi R. (2010) How conditioned stimuli acquire the ability to activate VTA dopamine cells: a proposed neurobiological component of reward-related learning. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 34: 769-80
Zellner MR, Kest K, Ranaldi R. (2009) NMDA receptor antagonism in the ventral tegmental area impairs acquisition of reward-related learning. Behavioural Brain Research. 197: 442-9
Zellner MR, Ranaldi R. (2006) Separation, motivation, and depression: Neonatal isolation reduces food-rewarded operant responding in rats Psychological Record. 56: 371-386
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