Voluntary running-wheel exercise decreases the threshold for rewarding intracranial self-stimulation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 582-587

  Morris, Michael J ^a   Na, Elisa S ^a   Johnson, Alan Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Depression; Exercise; Intracranial self stimulation; Reward; Running wheel

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD; RUNNING; SELF STIMULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; RUNNING; SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 84871865238     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029149     Document Type: Article

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