Effects of medial prefrontal or anterior cingulate cortex lesions on responding for cocaine under fixed-ratio and second-order schedules of reinforcement in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 242-257

  Weissenborn, Ruth ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Cocaine; Locomotor activity; Medial prefrontal cortex; Reward; Second order schedule; Self administration

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GYRUS CINGULI; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NARCOTICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030664166     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050447     Document Type: Article

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