Elliot Valenstein

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Elliot Valenstein

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According to Wikipedia, Elliot Spiro Valenstein was an American psychologist who was professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He is a noted authority on brain stimulation and psychosurgery. Biography Valenstein was born in New York City on December 9, 1923, to Louis and Helen Valenstein . He fought in World War II. After returning from the war he attended City College of New York for his B.S. and University of Kansas for his M.A and PhD.

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Reexamination of the role of the hypothalamus in motivation. (1970) (391)
What psychological process mediates feeding evoked by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus? (1991) (307)
Sexual Receptivity: Facilitation by Medial Preoptic Lesions in Female Rats (1972) (297)
Sex Differences in Taste Preference for Glucose and Saccharin Solutions (1967) (234)
PROBLEMS OF MEASUREMENT AND INTERPRETATION WITH REINFORCING BRAIN STIMULATION. (1964) (227)
Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness (1987) (212)
Modification of Motivated Behavior Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of the Hypothalamus (1968) (165)
Polydipsia Elicited by the Synergistic Action of a Saccharin and Glucose Solution (1967) (145)
An evaluation of response rate as a measure of rewarding intracranial stimulation. (1962) (142)
Sex Differences in Body-Weight Change following Gonadectomy of Rats (1968) (122)
Attenuation of Aversive Properties of Peripheral Shock by Hypothalamic Stimulation (1965) (111)
CHAPTER 9 – The Hypothalamus and Motivated Behavior1 (1969) (105)
SEX DIFFERENCES IN HYPERPHAGIA AND BODY WEIGHT FOLLOWING HYPOTHALAMIC DAMAGE * (1969) (86)
The Anatomical Locus of Reinforcement (1966) (82)
Inhibition of visual evoked responses to patterned stimuli during voluntary eye movements. (1967) (79)
INDEPENDENCE OF APPROACH AND ESCAPE REACTIONS TO ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE BRAIN. (1965) (75)
Ventromedial hypothalamic lesions and changes in body weight and food consumption in male and female rats. (1969) (73)
A note on anesthetizing rats and guinea pigs. (1961) (69)
Behavior Elicited by Hypothalamic Stimulation (1969) (69)
Medial forebrain bundle-lateral hypothalamic area and reinforcing brain stimulation. (1966) (68)
Brain control : a critical examination of brain stimulation and psychosurgery (1974) (66)
Individual behavioral responses to hypothalamic stimulation persist despite destruction of tissue surrounding electrode tip (1979) (64)
Interaction of Positive and Negative Reinforcing Neural Systems (1964) (64)
Blaming the brain: The truth about drugs and mental health. (2001) (63)
Amygdaloid Kindling and the GABA System (1980) (62)
The propensity for nonregulatory ingestive behavior is related to differences in dopamine systems: behavioral and biochemical evidence. (1986) (59)
Ingestive behavior evoked by hypothalamic stimulation and schedule-induced polydipsia are related. (1984) (59)
Individual differences in sexual responsiveness to estrogen and progesterone in ovariectomized rats. (1972) (57)
The Discovery of Chemical Neurotransmitters (2002) (53)
Individual differences in non-regulatory ingestive behavior and catecholamine systems (1985) (52)
Unipolar and bipolar electrodes in self-stimulation experiments. (1961) (50)
Further Studies of Sex Differences in Taste Preferences with Sweet Solutions (1967) (45)
A simplified electrode-assembly for implanting chronic electrodes in the brains of small animals. (1961) (44)
Distribution of Hypothalamic Sites Yielding Stimulus-bound Behavior (1969) (43)
Motivational variables affecting the rate of behavior maintained by intracranial stimulation. (1960) (43)
The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate (2005) (41)
The Psychosurgery debate : scientific, legal, and ethical perspectives (1980) (41)
The effect of reserpine on the conditioned emotional response in the guinea pig. (1959) (40)
Channeling of responses elicited by hypothalamic stimulation. (1971) (34)
Blaming the brain (1998) (34)
Brain stimulation and motivation : research and commentary (1973) (33)
Hypothalamic motivational systems: fixed or plastic neural circuits? (1969) (33)
The motivation underlying eating elicited by lateral hypothalamic stimulation (1968) (32)
Hormonal induction of behavioral estrus modified by electrical stimulation of hypothalamus. (1972) (31)
Object-Carrying by Rats: An Approach to the Behavior Produced by Brain Stimulation (1969) (30)
RATE-INDEPENDENT TEST OF REINFORCING CONSEQUENCES OF BRAIN STIMULATION. (1964) (27)
Influence of hunger, thirst, and previous experience in the test chamber on stimulus-bound eating and drinking. (1970) (27)
On drinkometers: problems and an inexpensive photocell solution. (1971) (25)
Inhibition of eating and drinking following hypothalamic stimulation in the rat. (1969) (24)
Glucose and saccharin preference in alloxan diabetic rats. (1969) (23)
Stereotaxic atlas of the infant rat hypothalamus. (1969) (23)
Copulation and eating during electrical stimulation of the rat hypothalamus. (1971) (22)
Effects of ventromedial hypothalamic damage in hypophysectomized rats. (1968) (21)
CONTINUOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR REINFORCING BRAIN STIMULATION. (1964) (21)
A comparison of stimulus-bound drinking and drinking induced by water deprivation. (1968) (21)
Long-term inhibition of kindled seizures by brain stimulation (1982) (20)
Stereotyped Behavior and Stress (1976) (20)
Steroid hormones and the neuropsychology of development. (1968) (18)
Asymmetry in the effects of unilateral 6-OHDA lesions on eating and drinking evoked by hypothalamic stimulation (1985) (18)
Stimulus-bound eating and deprivation from prior contact with food pellets. (1970) (17)
Chapter 27 The prefrontal area and psychosurgery (1991) (16)
Influence of olfactory bulb removal on ingestive behaviors, activity levels, and self-stimulation in hamsters. (1974) (15)
Effects of stimulation intensity on behavior elicited by hypothalamic stimulation. (1969) (15)
The prefrontal area and psychosurgery. (1990) (14)
Object-Carrying by Rats: An Approach to the Behavior Produced by Brain Stimulation (1970) (14)
The relationship between gnawing and food consumption with ventromedial hypothalamic lesions (1967) (14)
Morphine responsiveness and seizure proneness (1984) (14)
ANIMAL PREFERENCE FOR METHOD OF OBTAINING REINFORCING BRAIN STIMULATION. (1964) (12)
Long-lasting changes in morphine sensitivity following amygdaloid kindling in mice (1981) (12)
Relation between eating evoked by lateral hypothalamic stimulation and tail pinch in different rat strains. (1982) (12)
Lateral hypothalamic stimulation: Stimulus-bound eating and self-deprivation (1982) (10)
Unilateral substantia nigra lesions and schedule-induced polydipsia (1986) (10)
Strain differences in eating and drinking evoked by electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus (1981) (10)
The effect of extensive mesencephalic central gray lesions on responses to reinforcing brain stimulation (1966) (10)
AN INEXPENSIVE SWIVEL-DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF UNRESTRAINED ANIMALS. (1963) (9)
An inability of γ-acetylenic GABA to block eating evoked by hypothalamic stimulation (1980) (6)
Discrimination of Tones during Reinforcing Brain Stimulation (1960) (6)
Brain stimulation and behavior control. (1975) (5)
Antidiuresis associated with the ingestion of food substances (1969) (4)
The consumption of a saccharin-glucose solution by satiated and food-deprived immature rats (1968) (4)
Changes in responsiveness to mu and kappa opiates following a series of convulsions (1985) (4)
A DESIGN FOR A RELIABLE AND INEXPENSIVE BIPHASIC STIMULATOR. (1963) (4)
CHANNELING OF RESPONSES ELICITED BY HYPOTHALAMIC STIMULATION (1972) (2)
8. The War of the Soups and the Sparks (2005) (2)
Therapeutic Exuberance: A Double-Edged Sword (1992) (2)
Convulsions may alter the specificity of kappa-opiate receptors (1986) (1)
Stereotaxic measurements of the calvarium of Macaca mulatta. (1960) (1)
Persistent problems in the physical control of the brain (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 44, 1974). (1975) (1)
Science-fiction fantasy and the brain. (1978) (1)
6. The Road to the Nobel Prize (2005) (1)
Neuroscience: Paths, Detours, and Hazards. (1994) (1)
An inability of gamma-acetylenic GABA to block eating evoked by hypothalamic stimulation. (1980) (1)
A History Treat, but Only if it Suits your Taste. (1991) (0)
3. An Idea Ahead of Its Time The First Hint at the Existence of Chemical Neurotransmitters (2005) (0)
Biology of drives - A report of an NRP work session (1968) (0)
Reply to Mark's Rejoinder. (1976) (0)
Motivation Emotion and Behavior by Activation of Central Nervous Sites: Symposium held at the Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., September 1966 (1970) (0)
2. The Autonomic Nervous System Testing Drugs on Visceral Organs and Skeletal Muscles (2005) (0)
Running head: OPTOGENETIC STIMULATION OF CENTRAL AMYGDALA Optogenetic Stimulation of the Central Amygdala Narrows and Intensifies Irrational Cocaine Pursuit by (2017) (0)
7. Walter Cannon A Near Miss by America’s Most Renowned Physiologist (2005) (0)
10. Brain Neurotransmitters A New Continent to Explore (2005) (0)
Absence of Weight Regulation in Exercising Hamsters 1 (2002) (0)
5. Otto Loewi An Inspired Dream and a Speculative Leap (2005) (0)
11. Epilogue Some Final Reflections (2005) (0)
Public Relations for Neurosurgeons. (1993) (0)
Who's To Judge? (1976) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2000) (0)
4. Henry Dale Laying the Foundation (2005) (0)
9. Loewi, Dale, and Cannon The Later Years (2005) (0)
Behavioral and biochemical studies of dopamine systems: Individual differences in non-regulatory ingestive behavior, amphetamine sensitization and response to stress are related (1986) (0)
1. Setting the Stage The Neuron Doctrine and the Synapse (2005) (0)
Prefrontal lobotomy--author replies. (1988) (0)
Electroconvulsive Treatment: It Apparently Works, but How and at What Risks Are not yet Clear. (1990) (0)
What psychological processes mediate feeding evoked by lateral hypothalamic electrical stimulation (1991) (0)
Neuropsychology in Transition. (1986) (0)
Inaccurate lumbar-puncture kit. (1972) (0)

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