| Healthy play, better coping: The importance of play for the development of children in health and disease SL Nijhof, CH Vinkers, SM van Geelen, SN Duijff, EJM Achterberg, ... Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 95, 421-429, 2018 | 425 | 2018 |
| Rodent models for compulsive alcohol intake FW Hopf, HMB Lesscher Alcohol 48 (3), 253-264, 2014 | 203 | 2014 |
| Correlation between hippocampal BDNF mRNA expression and memory performance in senescent rats MJM Schaaf, JO Workel, HM Lesscher, E Vreugdenhil, MS Oitzl, ... Brain research 915 (2), 227-233, 2001 | 150 | 2001 |
| Receptor‐selective changes in µ‐, δ‐and κ‐opioid receptors after chronic naltrexone treatment in mice HMB Lesscher, A Bailey, JPH Burbach, JM Van Ree, I Kitchen, ... European Journal of Neuroscience 17 (5), 1006-1012, 2003 | 122 | 2003 |
| Differential and age‐dependent effects of maternal deprivation on the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal axis of brown norway rats from youth to senescence JO Workel, MS Oitzl, M Fluttert, H Lesscher, A Karssen, ER De Kloet Journal of neuroendocrinology 13 (7), 569-580, 2001 | 119 | 2001 |
| Drug dependence and the endogenous opioid system MAFM Gerrits, HBM Lesscher, JM van Ree European neuropsychopharmacology 13 (6), 424-434, 2003 | 116 | 2003 |
| Inflexible and indifferent alcohol drinking in male mice HMB Lesscher, LWM Van Kerkhof, LJMJ Vanderschuren Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 34 (7), 1219-1225, 2010 | 114 | 2010 |
| Protein kinase Cδ regulates ethanol intoxication and enhancement of GABA-stimulated tonic current DS Choi, W Wei, JK Deitchman, VN Kharazia, HMB Lesscher, T McMahon, ... Journal of Neuroscience 28 (46), 11890-11899, 2008 | 98 | 2008 |
| Endogenous cannabinoids are not involved in cocaine reinforcement and development of cocaine-induced behavioural sensitization HMB Lesscher, E Hoogveld, JPH Burbach, JM van Ree, MAFM Gerrits European neuropsychopharmacology 15 (1), 31-37, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| Mu‐opioid receptor knockout mice show diminished food‐anticipatory activity MJH Kas, R Van Den Bos, AM Baars, M Lubbers, HMB Lesscher, ... European Journal of Neuroscience 20 (6), 1624-1632, 2004 | 87 | 2004 |
| Abstinence-dependent dissociable central amygdala microcircuits control drug craving M Venniro, TI Russell, LA Ramsey, CT Richie, HMB Lesscher, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (14), 8126-8134, 2020 | 74 | 2020 |
| Punishment models of addictive behavior LJMJ Vanderschuren, AM Minnaard, JAS Smeets, HMB Lesscher Current opinion in behavioral sciences 13, 77-84, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Compulsive drug use and its neural substrates HMB Lesscher, LJMJ Vanderschuren Reviews in the Neurosciences 23 (5-6), 731-745, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| Individual variation in alcohol intake predicts reinforcement, motivation, and compulsive alcohol use in rats M Spoelder, P Hesseling, AM Baars, JG Lozeman‐van ‘t Klooster, ... Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 39 (12), 2427-2437, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Increased gabaergic input to ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons associated with decreased cocaine reinforcement in μ-opioid receptor knockout mice DS Mathon, HMB Lesscher, M Gerrits, A Kamal, JE Pintar, AGP Schuller, ... Neuroscience 130 (2), 359-367, 2005 | 64 | 2005 |
| The continued need for animals to advance brain research JR Homberg, RAH Adan, N Alenina, A Asiminas, M Bader, T Beckers, ... Neuron 109 (15), 2374-2379, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
| Amygdala protein kinase C epsilon regulates corticotropin‐releasing factor and anxiety‐like behavior HMB Lesscher, T McMahon, AW Lasek, WH Chou, J Connolly, V Kharazia, ... Genes, Brain and Behavior 7 (3), 323-333, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
| How the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the necessity of animal research L Genzel, R Adan, A Berns, JJJP van den Beucken, A Blokland, ... Current Biology 30 (18), R1014-R1018, 2020 | 59 | 2020 |
| Adolescent alcohol exposure amplifies the incentive value of reward-predictive cues through potentiation of phasic dopamine signaling M Spoelder, KT Tsutsui, H Lesscher, LJMJ Vanderschuren, JJ Clark Neuropsychopharmacology 40 (13), 2873-2885, 2015 | 58 | 2015 |
| Amygdala protein kinase C epsilon controls alcohol consumption HMB Lesscher, MJ Wallace, L Zeng, V Wang, JK Deitchman, T McMahon, ... Genes, Brain and Behavior 8 (5), 493-499, 2009 | 58 | 2009 |
