Pleasurable behaviors reduce stress via brain reward pathways

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 20529-20534

  Ulrich Lai, Yvonne M ^a   Christiansen, Anne M ^a   Ostrander, Michelle M ^a   Jones, Amanda A ^a   Jones, Kenneth R ^a   Choi, Dennis C ^a,c   Krause, Eric G ^a   Evanson, Nathan K ^a   Furay, Amy R ^a,d   Davis, Jon F ^a   Solomon, Matia B ^a   De Kloet, Annette D ^a   Tamashiro, Kellie L ^a,e   Sakai, Randall R ^a   Seeley, Randy J ^b   Woods, Stephen C ^a   Herman, James P ^a  

^a Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety related behavior; Calcium calmodulin dependent protein kinase; CAMP response element binding protein; Corticosterone; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

RATTUS;

EID: 78650570855     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007740107     Document Type: Article

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