Lesions to the subthalamic nucleus decrease impulsive choice but impair autoshaping in rats: The importance of the basal ganglia in Pavlovian conditioning and impulse control

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3107-3116

  Winstanley, Catharine A ^a,c   Baunez, Christelle ^b   Theobald, David E H ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Frontosubthalamic pathway; Impulsivity; Motivation; Perseveration; Subthalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BASAL GANGLION; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; REWARD; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 21444442259     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04143.x     Document Type: Article

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