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

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1671-1682

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

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Drug abuse; Neurophysiology; Reward; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STEREOTYPY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CATHETERIZATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; LONG EVANS RAT; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951800835     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07230.x     Document Type: Article

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