Cellular mechanisms underlying reinforcement-related processing in the nucleus accumbens: Electrophysiological studies in behaving animals

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 495-504

  Carelli, Regina M ^a   Deadwyler, Sam A ^a  

^a Ctr Neurobiological Invest Drug A   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cocaine self administration; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Nucleus accumbens; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030876122     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00442-X     Document Type: Article

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