Lesions of the basolateral amygdala abolish the ability of drug associated cues to reinstate responding during withdrawal from self- administered cocaine

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-148

  Meil, William M ^a,b   See, Ronald E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Cocaine; Conditioning; Excitotoxic lesions; Extinction; Self administration

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOPAMINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0030802011     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02270-X     Document Type: Article

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