Functional interaction between the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens shell is necessary for the acquisition of appetitive spatial context conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 6950-6959

  Ito, Rutsuko ^a,c   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Pennartz, Cyriel M ^b   Everitt, Barry J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned place preference; Hippocampus; Learning and memory systems; Limbic; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; NEUROTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; DENERVATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN INJURIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTOXINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 49049084502     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1615-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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