The role of the subthalamic nucleus in 'compulsive' behavior in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1902-1911

  Winter, Christine ^a   Flash, Shira ^b   Klavir, Oded ^b   Klein, Julia ^a   Sohr, Reinhard ^a   Joel, Daphna ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); Post training signal attenuation; Serotonin; Striatum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; SEROTONIN; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; REWARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SEROTONIN; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 42049116546     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06148.x     Document Type: Article

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