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Benjamin Thomas Saunders
University Of Minnesota
$5,440,066
Attributed
$7,172,967
Total exposure
8
Grants
8
Lead (contact PI)
Attributed= this PI's even-split share of every grant they're on (the fair, additive number). Exposure = full size of all those grants.
Funding over time
peak $2.4M · FY2011–25$2.5M$1.9M$1.3M$625K$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NIH$7,172,967 · 8
By mechanism
R01$4,732,578 · 3
RF1$1,364,862 · 1
R00$747,000 · 1
F32$142,255 · 1
K99$138,912 · 1
F31$47,360 · 1
Top collaborators
- Stephanie Mary Groman4 shared
Most similar at University Of Minnesota
Same institution · by research overlap
- Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah$6,032,994
- Sarah L Swisher$1,207,911
- Howard Brent Clark$1,281,539
- Edith Hernandez$159,738
- Edward M. Bernat$1,266,859
Others in their field
Top investigators on “Behavior”
- Sonia M Thomas · Research Triangle Institute$700,865,642
- Tracy L Nolen · Research Triangle Institute$474,487,152
- Lawrence Corey · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$316,652,479
- Chanza Baytop · Westat, Inc.$271,217,917
- Everette D Joseph · Howard University$243,972,016
- Eric J Barron · Pennsylvania State Univ University Park$243,972,016
Research focus
BehaviorRattusRewardsIn VivoBrainNeuronsOptogeneticsCuesVentral Tegmental AreaSignal TransductionDopamineCorpus Striatum StructureMidbrain StructureNucleus AccumbensInsightLearningMotivationComplexAttentionDopaminergic NeuronPatternTrainingAddictionAnimals
Grant awards (18)
Circuit-level neurodevelopmental trajectories of decision-making computations across adolescence$1,364,862
RF1 · FY2025 · MH · contact PI
Functional architecture of striatal networks in cue-reward learning$597,040
R01 · FY2025 · MH · contact PI
Basolateral amygdala dopamine in addiction-related learning strategies$400,652
R01 · FY2025 · DA · contact PI
Circuit-level neurodevelopmental trajectories of decision-making computations across adolescence$701,408
R01 · FY2024 · MH · contact PI
Functional architecture of striatal networks in cue-reward learning$612,540
R01 · FY2024 · MH · contact PI
Basolateral amygdala dopamine in addiction-related learning strategies$417,861
R01 · FY2024 · DA · contact PI
Circuit-level neurodevelopmental trajectories of decision-making computations across adolescence$714,053
R01 · FY2023 · MH · contact PI
Functional architecture of striatal networks in cue-reward learning$603,545
R01 · FY2023 · MH · contact PI
Circuit-level neurodevelopmental trajectories of decision-making computations across adolescence$685,479
R01 · FY2022 · MH · contact PI
Midbrain cellular and circuit dynamics of cocaine seeking$249,000
R00 · FY2020 · DA · contact PI
Midbrain cellular and circuit dynamics of cocaine seeking$249,000
R00 · FY2019 · DA · contact PI
Midbrain cellular and circuit dynamics of cocaine seeking$249,000
R00 · FY2018 · DA · contact PI
Midbrain cellular and circuit dynamics of cocaine seeking$138,912
K99 · FY2017 · DA · contact PI
Ventral tegmental area dopamine in cocaine self administration and relapse$58,002
F32 · FY2016 · DA · contact PI
Ventral tegmental area dopamine in cocaine self administration and relapse$54,194
F32 · FY2015 · DA · contact PI
Ventral tegmental area dopamine in cocaine self administration and relapse$30,059
F32 · FY2014 · DA · contact PI
Variation in the abilty of drug cues to reinstate drug seeking$15,369
F31 · FY2012 · DA · contact PI
Variation in the abilty of drug cues to reinstate drug seeking$31,991
F31 · FY2011 · DA · contact PI