Mother rats bar-press for pups: Effects of lesions of the mpoa and limbic sites on maternal behavior and operant responding for pup- reinforcement

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 15-31

  Lee, Anna ^a   Clancy, Sharon ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Bar press; Maternal behavior; Mpoa; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032991097     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00109-0     Document Type: Article

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