Shift in the intrinsic excitability of medial prefrontal cortex neurons following training in impulse control and cued-responding tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hayton, Scott J ^a   Olmstead, Mary C ^a,b   Dumont, Éric C ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOOD; HOMEOSTASIS; IMPULSE CONTROL; ION CURRENT; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RESPONSE INHIBITION TASK; REWARD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CUES; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; REWARD;

EID: 80051941240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023885     Document Type: Article

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