Single neuronal responses in medial prefrontal cortex during cocaine self-administration in freely moving rats

Synapse

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 22-35

  Chang, Jing Yu ^a   Sawyer, Steven F ^a   Paris, Joseph M ^a   Kirillov, Alexander ^a   Woodward, Donald J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; drug of abuse; electrophysiology; mesolimbic system; reward

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030911912     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199705)26:1<22::AID-SYN3>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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