Social Deprivation Enhances VTA Synaptic Plasticity and Drug-Induced Contextual Learning

Neuron

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 335-345

  Whitaker, Leslie R ^a,b   Degoulet, Mickael ^a   Morikawa, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMPHETAMINE; CALCIUM ION; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTEXTUAL LEARNING; CONTEXTUAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GLUTAMATERGIC TRANSMISSION; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; LEARNING; MALE; METHOXYHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCOL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SYNAPSES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84872705851     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.022     Document Type: Article

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