Acquisition, extinction, and recall of opiate reward memory are signaled by dynamic neuronal activity patterns in the prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2665-2680

  Sun, Ninglei ^a   Chi, Ning ^a   Lauzon, Nicole ^a   Bishop, Stephanie ^a   Tan, Huibing ^a   Laviolette, Steven R ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

addiction; electrophysiology; extinction; memory; neuronal bursting; opiates; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MEMORY; MORPHINE; NEURONS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD;

EID: 81055146952     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr031     Document Type: Article

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