Social reward: Interactions with social status, social communication, aggression, and associated neural activation in the ventral tegmental area

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2308-2318

  Gil, Mario ^a   Nguyen, Ngoc Thao ^a   Mcdonald, Mark ^a   Albers, H Elliott ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Mesolimbic reward system; Motivation; Reinforcement; Social dominance; Syrian hamster

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL REWARD; SOCIAL STATUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE; MESOLIMBIC REWARD SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REWARD; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84880325737     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12216     Document Type: Article

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