The neural consequences of repeated cocaine exposure revealed by functional MRI in awake rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 936-943

  Febo, Marcelo ^a   Segarra, Annabell C ^b   Nair, Govind ^a   Schmidt, Karl ^a   Duong, Timothy Q ^a   Ferris, Craig F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Awake rat; BOLD imaging; Cocaine; Drugs of abuse; Functional MRI; Reward circuitry; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULA; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COCAINE; HEMOGLOBINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 17644376834     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300653     Document Type: Article

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