Functional relationship among medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and ventral tegmental area in locomotion and reward

Critical Reviews in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-142

  Tzschentke, Thomas M ^a   Schmidt, Werner J ^b  

^a GRÜNENTHAL GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Drug addiction; GABA; Glutamate; Reinforcement; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOTIVATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0034434012     PISSN: 08920915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critrevneurobiol.v14.i2.20     Document Type: Review

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