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David Wirtshafter, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States 
Area:
Neural basis of motivation, basal ganglia, median raphe nucleus, nucleus accumbens
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John D. Davis grad student University of Illinois, Chicago
Ernest W. Kent grad student University of Illinois, Chicago

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Hannah S. Wirtshafter research assistant
Teresa E. Madsen research assistant 2002-2002 University of Illinois, Chicago
David Cook grad student University of Illinois, Chicago
Mark A. Klitenick grad student University of Illinois, Chicago
Mark R. Pitzer grad student University of Illinois, Chicago
Insop Shim grad student University of Illinois, Chicago
Thomas Stratford grad student University of Illinois, Chicago
William M. Struthers grad student 2000 University of Illinois, Chicago
Keri J. Heilman grad student 2006 University of Illinois, Chicago
Mary C. Kane grad student 2011 University of Illinois, Chicago
Ignacio Rivero Covelo grad student 2009-2014 University of Illinois, Chicago

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Wirtshafter D, Stratford TR. (2015) Chemogenetic inhibition of cells in the paramedian midbrain tegmentum increases locomotor activity in rats. Brain Research
Covelo IR, Patel ZI, Luviano JA, et al. (2014) Manipulation of GABA in the ventral pallidum, but not the nucleus accumbens, induces intense, preferential, fat consumption in rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 270: 316-25
Shim I, Stratford TR, Wirtshafter D. (2014) Dopamine is differentially involved in the locomotor hyperactivity produced by manipulations of opioid, GABA and glutamate receptors in the median raphe nucleus. Behavioural Brain Research. 261: 65-70
Stratford TR, Wirtshafter D. (2013) Lateral hypothalamic involvement in feeding elicited from the ventral pallidum. The European Journal of Neuroscience. 37: 648-53
Stratford TR, Wirtshafter D. (2013) Injections of muscimol into the paraventricular thalamic nucleus, but not mediodorsal thalamic nuclei, induce feeding in rats. Brain Research. 1490: 128-33
Wirtshafter D, Covelo IR, Salija I, et al. (2012) Effects of muscimol in the nucleus accumbens shell on salt appetite and sucrose intake: a microstructural study with a comment on the sensitization of salt intake. Behavioral Neuroscience. 126: 699-709
Choi WK, Wirtshafter D, Park HJ, et al. (2012) The characteristics of supramammillary cells projecting to the hippocampus in stress response in the rat. The Korean Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology : Official Journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology. 16: 17-24
Stratford TR, Wirtshafter D. (2012) Effects of muscimol, amphetamine, and DAMGO injected into the nucleus accumbens shell on food-reinforced lever pressing by undeprived rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior. 101: 499-503
Covelo IR, Wirtshafter D, Stratford TR. (2012) GABA(A) and dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell differentially influence performance of a water-reinforced progressive ratio task. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior. 101: 57-61
Stratford TR, Wirtshafter D. (2012) Evidence that the nucleus accumbens shell, ventral pallidum, and lateral hypothalamus are components of a lateralized feeding circuit. Behavioural Brain Research. 226: 548-54
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