The medial prefrontal cortex regulates the differential expression of morphine-conditioned place preference following a single exposure to controllable or uncontrollable stress

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 834-843

  Rozeske, Robert R ^a   Der Avakian, Andre ^b   Bland, Sondra T ^a   Beckley, Jacob T ^a   Watkins, Linda R ^a   Maier, Steven F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Learned helplessness; Rats; Resilience; Reward; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; MUSCIMOL; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ESCAPE REACTION; GABA AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCIMOL; PICROTOXIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 59949091623     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.34     Document Type: Article

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