ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2016
Prefrontal cortical regulation of brainwide circuit dynamics and reward-related behavior.
Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03737032 (Theta Burst Stimulation in Young Adults With Depression), which is not on this map. Cited by 320 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Theta Burst Stimulation in Young Adults With Depression
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320 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 540 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effect-enhancing and toxicity-reducing effects of Chaihu Jia Longgu Muli decoction in the treatment of multimorbidity with depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pharmaceutical biology · 2023Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis of Neural Correlates of Reward Anticipation in Individuals at Clinical Risk for Schizophrenia.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Neural substrates of reward anticipation and outcome in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of fMRI findings in the monetary incentive delay task.Translational psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Optogenetic fMRI for Brain-Wide Circuit Analysis of Sensory Processing.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Tasks activating the default mode network map multiple functional systems.Brain structure & function · 2022Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of human prediction error for incentives, perception, cognition, and action.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- Great Expectations: A Critical Review of and Suggestions for the Study of Reward Processing as a Cause and Predictor of Depression.Biological psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Characterizing anhedonia: A systematic review of neuroimaging across the subtypes of reward processing deficits in depression.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of reward processing in major depressive disorder reveals distinct abnormalities within the reward circuit.Translational psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Efficacy and target engagement of dopamine agonist pramipexole for anhedonic depression: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2026Trial
- Causal connectivity maps derived from single-pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Blunted anterior midcingulate response to reward in opioid users is normalized by prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation.Translational psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Transcutaneous auricular nerve stimulation modulates the functional connectivity of the descending pain modulation system and reward network in patients with chronic low back pain.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Trial
- Macroscopic resting state model predicts theta burst stimulation response: A randomized trial.PLoS computational biology · 2023Trial
- The acute effects of nicotine on corticostriatal responses to distinct phases of reward processing.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Trial
- Field potential 1/Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Trial
- Dopamine release-associated striatal blood oxygenation and whole-brain dynamics during associative learning.Science advances · 2026Article
- Neuropathophysiological changes associated with mirtazapine treatment response in major depressive disorder: insights into bottom-up dopaminergic pathways and prefrontal control networks.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Stress-induced motivational impairment is marked by diminished frontocortical cellular communication and neuropeptide signaling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
260 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Motivation for reward drives adaptive behaviors, whereas impairment of reward perception and experience (anhedonia) can contribute to psychiatric diseases, including depression and schizophrenia. We sought to test the hypothesis that the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) controls interactions among specific subcortical regions that govern hedonic responses. By using optogenetic functional magnetic resonance imaging to locally manipulate but globally visualize neural activity in rats, we found that dopamine neuron stimulation drives striatal activity, whereas locally increased mPFC excitability reduces this striatal response and inhibits the behavioral drive for dopaminergic stimulation. This chronic mPFC overactivity also stably suppresses natural reward-motivated behaviors and induces specific new brainwide functional interactions, which predict the degree of anhedonia in individuals. These findings describe a mechanism by which mPFC modulates expression of reward-seeking behavior, by regulating the dynamical interactions between specific distant subcortical regions.
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