Effects of food deprivation on goal-directed behavior, spontaneous locomotion, and c-Fos immunoreactivity in the amygdala

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-15

  Moscarello, J M ^a   Ben Shahar, O ^a   Ettenberg, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Behavioral economics; Central amygdala; Food motivation; Food reinforcement

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEEDING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 57649222320     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.07.025     Document Type: Article

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