Phasic firing of single neurons in the rat nucleus accumbens correlated with the timing of intravenous cocaine self-administration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3459-3473

  Peoples, Laura L ^a   West, Mark O ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; cocaine; dopamine; electrophysiology; motivation; nucleus accumbens; psychomotor stimulant; reward; self administration; ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPULSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

EID: 0029879710     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-10-03459.1996     Document Type: Article

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