Interactions between amygdala central nucleus and the ventral tegmental area in the acquisition of conditioned cue-directed behavior in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1876-1884

  Lee, Hongjoo J ^a   Wheeler, Daniel S ^b   Holland, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala central nucleus; Attention; Incentive learning; Orienting; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSOLATERAL STRIATUM; HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 79955950050     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07680.x     Document Type: Article

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