Sex, drugs and gluttony: How the brain controls motivated behaviors

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 173-177

  Hull, Elaine M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Dopamine; Glutamate; Medial preoptic area; Mesocorticolimbic tract; Nitric oxide; Orexin hypocretin; Serotonin; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; OREXIN; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; EATING DISORDER; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDING; GLUTTONY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BULIMIA; DOPAMINE; MOTIVATION; SEROTONIN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 79957645789     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.057     Document Type: Article

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