Dissociable roles of the medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens core in goal-directed actions for differential reward magnitude

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2884-2899

  Gill, T Michael ^a   Castaneda, Paulo J ^a   Janak, Patricia H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

accumbens; choice impulsivity; decision making; prefrontal; sustained response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; GOALS; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 77956319692     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq036     Document Type: Article

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