Destruction of the medial forebrain bundle caudal to the site of stimulation reduces rewarding efficacy but destruction rostrally does not

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 766-790

  Gallistel, C R ^a   Leon, Matthew ^a   Lim, Beng T ^a   Sim, Jason C ^a   Waraczynski, Meg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROLYSIS; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0029786450     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.4.766     Document Type: Article

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