Programmed acute electrical stimulation of ventral tegmental area alleviates depressive-like behavior

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1057-1066

  Friedman, Alexander ^a   Frankel, Michael ^a   Flaumenhaft, Yakov ^a   Merenlender, Avia ^a   Pinhasov, Albert ^b   Feder, Yuval ^b   Taler, Michal ^c   Gil Ad, Irit ^c   Abeles, Moshe ^a   Yadid, Gal ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

BDNF; Deep brain stimulation; Depression; Reward; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DESIPRAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUCROSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 59949098173     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.177     Document Type: Article

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