Area postrema mediates the formation of rapid, conditioned palatability shifts in lithium-treated rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 202-212

  Eckel, Lisa A ^a   Ossenkopp, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; RAT; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FOOD PREFERENCES; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASTE;

EID: 0030050606     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.202     Document Type: Article

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