Burst activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons is elicited by sensory stimuli in the awake cat

Brain Research

Volumn 759, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 251-258

  Horvitz, Jon C ^a   Stewart, Tripp ^b   Jacobs, Barry L ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dopamine; Mesolimbic; Sensory; Single unit; Ventral tegmental area (VTA)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CATS; DOPAMINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0030757872     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00265-5     Document Type: Article

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