Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion impairs both acquisition and performance of appetitive Pavlovian approach behaviour: Implications for mesoaccumbens dopamine function

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 149-163

  Parkinson, J A ^a,b   Dalley, J W ^a   Cardinal, R N ^a   Bamford, A ^a   Fehnert, B ^a   Lachenal, G ^a   Rudarakanchana, N ^a   Halkerston, K M ^a   Robbins, T W ^a   Everitt, B J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Core; Learning; Motivation; Reward; Shell; Striatum

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0037010809     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00291-7     Document Type: Article

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