Effects of excitotoxic lesions of the central amygdaloid nucleus on the potentiation of reward-related stimuli by intra-accumbens amphetamine

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 981-990

  Robledo, Patricia ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE;

EID: 0029992566     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.981     Document Type: Article

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