Medial forebrain bundle lesions fail to structurally and functionally disconnect the ventral tegmental area from many ipsilateral forebrain nuclei: Implications for the neural substrate of brain stimulation reward

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8515-8533

  Simmons, Janine M ^a,b   Ackermann, Robert F ^a,c   Gallistel, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation reward; Lateral hypothalamic lesions; Medial forebrain bundle; Reward pathway; Self stimulation; True Blue; VTA stimulation; 14C deoxyglucose autoradiography

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE; TRUE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0032531894     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08515.1998     Document Type: Article

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