Changes in medial prefrontal cortical dopamine levels associated with response-contingent food reward: An electrochemical study in rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 9130-9138

  Richardson, Nicole R ^a   Gratton, Alain ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectancy; Incentive motivation; Instrumental conditioning; Mesocortical dopamine; Reward; Voltammetry; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; EXPECTANCY; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POTENTIOMETRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032212159     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-09130.1998     Document Type: Article

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