Social play behavior in adolescent rats is mediated by functional activity in medial prefrontal cortex and striatum

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1899-1909

  Van Kerkhof, Linda Wm ^a   Damsteegt, Ruth ^a   Trezza, Viviana ^a,b   Voorn, Pieter ^c   Vanderschuren, Louk Jmj ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adolescence; AMPA receptors; dorsal striatum; nucleus accumbens; prefrontal cortex; social play behavior

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; BACLOFEN; MUSCIMOL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA-B RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUINOXALINES; RATS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84882451282     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.83     Document Type: Article

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