Responses of ventral tegmental area GABA neurons to brain stimulation reward

Brain Research

Volumn 906, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 190-197

  Steffensen, Scott C ^a   Lee, Rong Sheng ^b   Stobbs, Sarah H ^a   Henriksen, Steven J ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge activity; GABA; Intracranial self stimulation; Medial forebrain bundle; Reinforcement; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0035816366     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02581-1     Document Type: Article

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