Electrical stimulation of dorsal and ventral striatum differentially alters the copulatory behavior of male rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 686-694

  Rodríguez Manzo, Gabriela ^a   Pellicer, Francisco ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Copulatory behavior; Dorsal and ventral striatum; Natural reward; Nucleus accumbens and caudate putamen; Sexual exhaustion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COPULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EJACULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PUTAMEN; RAT; SATIETY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 77958119249     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020737     Document Type: Article

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