Reliance on habits at the expense of goal-directed control following dopamine precursor depletion

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 621-631

  De Wit, Sanne ^a,b   Standing, Holly R ^a,c   Devito, Elise E ^a,c,d   Robinson, Oliver J ^a,c,e   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,f   Sahakian, Barbara J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Gender differences; Goal directed action; Habit; Learning; Tyrosine depletion

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CATECHOLAMINE DEPLETION; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AMINO ACIDS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

EID: 84856637225     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2563-2     Document Type: Article

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