Operant learning requires NMDA-receptor activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and dorsomedial striatum, but not in the orbitofrontal cortex

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 500-509

  McKee, Brenda L ^a   Kelley, Ann E ^b   Moser, Hannah R ^c   Andrzejewski, Matthew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Northwestern College   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive learning; Caudate putamen; Frontal cortex; Glutamate receptor; Operant learning

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955824098     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020270     Document Type: Article

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