Reward-related activity in the medial prefrontal cortex is driven by consumption

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 APR, 2013, Pages

  Horst, Nicole K ^a,b   Laubach, Mark ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding; Field potential; Food; Foraging; Licking; Phase locking; Population activity; Theta

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GUSTATORY CORTEX; INSULA; LICKING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; REWARD; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84878889274     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00056     Document Type: Article

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