Enhanced dopamine efflux in the amygdala by a predictive, but not a non- predictive, stimulus: Facilitation by prior repeated D-amphetamine

Neuroscience

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-130

  Harmer, C J ^a   Phillips, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Associative learning; Dopamine; Microdialysis; Pavlovian conditioning; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

DEXAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FOOD; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; REWARD; SECRETORY RATE;

EID: 0032977242     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00464-3     Document Type: Article

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