Delusions, superstitious conditioning and chaotic dopamine neurodynamics

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-123

  Shaner, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DELUSION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RAT; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY; STEREOTYPY; SYMPTOM; THINKING;

EID: 0033080851     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1997.0656     Document Type: Article

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