Session-long modulations of accumbal firing during sucrose-reinforced operant behavior

Synapse

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 420-428

  Kravitz, Alexxai V ^a   Moorman, David E ^a   Simpson, Alexis ^a   Peoples, Laura L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extracellular recording; Gating; Motivation; Neuromodulation; Neuronal ensembles; Striatum

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; SUCROSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FACILITATION; HISTOGRAM; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUCROSE;

EID: 33748594728     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20311     Document Type: Article

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