Transient inactivation of the rat nucleus accumbens does not impair guidance of instrumental behaviour by stimuli predicting reward magnitude

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-63

  Giertler, C ^a   Bohn, I ^a   Hauber, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Dopamine; Goal directed behaviour; Lidocaine; Nucleus accumbens; Rat; Reaction time; Reward magnitude

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREDICTION; RAT; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1242272172     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008877-200402000-00007     Document Type: Article

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