Separate prefrontal-subcortical circuits mediate different components of risk-based decision making

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2886-2899

  Onge, Jennifer R St ^a   Stopper, Colin M ^a   Zahm, Daniel S ^b   Floresco, Stan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; RISK; SUBCORTEX;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; DEXTRANS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 84857287669     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5625-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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