Phasic nucleus accumbens dopamine encodes risk-based decision-making behavior

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-205

  Sugam, Jonathan A ^a   Day, Jeremy J ^a   Wightman, R Mark ^a,b   Carelli, Regina M ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; dopamine; nucleus accumbens; reward; risk taking; value

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 84855468296     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.09.029     Document Type: Article

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