Stress, depression and the mesolimbic dopamine system

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 331-342

  Cabib, Simona ^a   Puglisi Allegra, Stefano ^b  

^a Ist Psicobiologia Psicofarmacologia   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

adaptation; anhedonia; antidepressant; avoidance; DA receptors; DA release; defence; despair; forced swimming; frontal cortex; genotype; helplessness; ICSS; motivation; nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; APOMORPHINE; DOPAMINE; MINAPRINE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL MODEL; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SENSITIZATION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOPAMINE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; STRESS;

EID: 0029902505     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050142     Document Type: Review

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