Dissociable roles for the nucleus accumbens core and shell in regulating set shifting

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2449-2457

  Floresco, Stan B ^a   Ghods Sharifi, Sarvin ^a   Vexelman, Claudia ^a   Magyar, Orsolya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognitive flexibility; GABA; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Schizophrenia; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BACLOFEN; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EGO; FOOD; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BACLOFEN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GABA AGONISTS; MAZE LEARNING; MUSCIMOL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645646405     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4431-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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