Norepinephrine and dopamine modulate impulsivity on the five-choice serial reaction time task through opponent actions in the shell and core sub-regions of the nucleus accumbens

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2057-2066

  Economidou, Daina ^a   Theobald, David E H ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a   Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atomoxetine; impulsivity; methylphenidate; nucleus accumbens; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ATOMOXETINE; DOPAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMPULSIVENESS; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS CORE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NOREPINEPHRINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROPYLAMINES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84863980738     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.53     Document Type: Article

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