The Ventral Tegmental Area Is Required for the Behavioral and Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Firing Responses to Incentive Cues

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2923-2933

  Yun, Irene A ^a,b   Wakabayashi, Ken T ^a   Fields, Howard L ^a,c   Nicola, Saleem M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Discriminative stimulus; Dopamine; Goal directed behavior; Motivation; Nucleus accumbens; Operant; Reward; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BACLOFEN; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOTIVATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SPIKE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DOPAMINE AGENTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 1642423939     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5282-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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