Amphetamine exposure enhances accumbal responses to reward-predictive stimuli in a pavlovian conditioned approach task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 7501-7512

  Wan, Xun ^a   Peoples, Laura L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Learning; Psychostimulant; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; SUCROSE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SENSITIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; HABITUATION; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 50549102619     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1071-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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