Effects of lesions in the medial prefrontal cortex on the activity of midbrain dopamine neurons

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 437-441

  Shim, Seong S ^a   Bunney, Benjamin S ^a   Shi, Wei Xing ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Ibotenic acid; Prefrontal cortex; Single unit recording; Substantia nigra; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0030296795     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(96)00052-8     Document Type: Article

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