Effects of prefrontal cortical inactivation on neural activity in the ventral tegmental area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 8159-8171

  Jo, Yong Sang ^a   Lee, Jane ^a   Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84877276141     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0118-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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