Functional connections between medial prefrontal cortex and caudate- putamen in brain-stimulation reward of rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1177-1186

  Trzcińska, Monika ^a,b   Bielajew, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUTAMEN; RAT; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 0031772787     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.5.1177     Document Type: Article

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