Intact risk-based decision making in rats with prefrontal or accumbens dopamine depletion

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 719-729

  Mai, Bettina ^a   Hauber, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DECISION MAKING; DRUG EFFECT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; METABOLISM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXIDOPAMINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RATS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; RISK-TAKING; SYMPATHOLYTICS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84870889448     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0115-9     Document Type: Article

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