Electrophysiological evidence of mediolateral functional dichotomy in the rat accumbens during cocaine self-administration: Tonic firing patterns

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2387-2400

  Fabbricatore, Anthony T ^a   Ghitza, Udi E ^a   Prokopenko, Volodymyr F ^a   West, Mark O ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Drug abuse; Neurophysiology; Reward; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 72949108210     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.07033.x     Document Type: Article

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