Cannabinoid receptor blockade reduces the opportunity cost at which rats maintain operant performance for rewarding brain stimulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5426-5435

  Trujillo Pisanty, Ivan ^a   Hernandez, Giovanni ^a,b   Moreau Debord, Ian ^a   Cossette, Marie Pierre ^a   Conover, Kent ^a   Cheer, Joseph F ^b   Shizgal, Peter ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (2,4 DICHLOROPHENYL) 5 (4 IODOPHENYL) 4 METHYL N (1 PIPERIDYL) 1H PYRAZOLE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REWARD; REWARD SEEKING BEHAVIOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MICRODIALYSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOREPINEPHRINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PIPERIDINES; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955711914     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0079-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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