Selective excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core and shell differentially affect aversive Pavlovian conditioning to discrete and contextual cues

Psychobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 256-266

  Parkinson, J A ^a,b   Robbins, T W ^a   Everitt, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 0032767117     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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