Effects of lesions to amygdala, ventral subiculum, medial prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens on the reaction to novelty: Implication for limbic-striatal interactions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 60-73

  Burns, Lindsay H ^a   Annett, Lucy ^a   Kelley, Ann E ^b   Everitt, Barry J ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SUBICULUM; TASTE PREFERENCE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FOOD PREFERENCES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE NET; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030042150     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.60     Document Type: Article

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