Dopamine and noradrenaline efflux in the medial prefrontal cortex during serial reversals and extinction of instrumental goal-directed behavior

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1444-1453

  Van Der Meulen, Jamilja A J ^a   Joosten, Ruud N J M A ^a   De Bruin, Jan P C ^a   Feenstra, Matthijs G P ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Dopamine; Medial prefrontal cortex; Microdialysis; Noradrenaline; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DOPAMINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GOALS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 34347246725     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl057     Document Type: Article

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