Lesions of pontomesencephalic cholinergic nuclei do not substantially disrupt the reward value of medial forebrain bundle stimulation

Brain Research

Volumn 800, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 154-169

  Waraczynski, Meg ^a   Perkins, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation reward; Lateral dorsal tegmentum; Medial forebrain bundle; Pedunculopontine tegmentum; Rate frequency curve shift; Self stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GENE DISRUPTION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SELF STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PONS; RATS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032572617     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00519-8     Document Type: Article

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