Prominent burst firing of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area during paradoxical sleep

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1232-1241

  Dahan, Lionel ^a,b,c   Astier, Bernadette ^a   Vautrelle, Nicolas ^a   Urbain, Nadia ^a   Kocsis, Bernat ^b   Chouvet, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bursts; Dopamine; Paradoxical sleep; Reward; Sleep; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DREAM; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; REWARD; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; DOPAMINE; EATING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34249021162     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301251     Document Type: Article

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