The central amygdala projection to the substantia nigra reflects prediction error information in appetitive conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 531-538

  Lee, Hongjoo J ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^b   Holland, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REWARD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRAINING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ZONA COMPACTA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITE; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STILBAMIDINES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 78649536559     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1889510     Document Type: Article

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