Disconnection of the anterior cingulate cortex and nucleus accumbens core impairs pavlovian approach behavior: Further evidence for limbic cortical-ventral striatopallidal systems

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 42-63

  Parkinson, John A ^a   Willoughby, Pamela J ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT;

EID: 0034013103     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.1.42     Document Type: Article

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