Decision-making performance is related to levels of anxiety and differential recruitment of frontostriatal areas in male rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 184, Issue , 2011, Pages 97-106

  De Visser, L ^a,b   Baars, A M ^a,b   Lavrijsen, M ^a,b   van der Weer, C M M ^a,b   van den Bos, R ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; C fos; Decision making; Prefrontal cortex; Rats; Striatum

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS;

EID: 79956021223     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.02.025     Document Type: Article

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