The Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus (RMTg), a GABAergic Afferent to Midbrain Dopamine Neurons, Encodes Aversive Stimuli and Inhibits Motor Responses

Neuron

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 786-800

  Jhou, Thomas C ^a   Fields, Howard L ^b   Baxter, Mark G ^c   Saper, Clifford B ^d   Holland, Peter C ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HABENULA; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; ROSTROMEDIAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DOPAMINE; ELECTROSHOCK; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 61549112212     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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