Behavioral and in vitro correlates of compulsive-like food seeking induced by operant conditioning in Aplysia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 8059-8070

  Nargeot, Romuald ^a   Petrissans, Christine ^a   Simmers, John ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aplysia feeding; Buccal ganglia; Motor network; Operant conditioning; Radula motor pattern generation; Reward stimulus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BITE; COMPULSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE;

EID: 34547410738     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1950-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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