Dopaminergic drug effects during reversal learning depend on anatomical connections between the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 AUG, 2013, Pages

  van der Schaaf, Marieke E ^a,b   Zwiers, Marcel P ^a,b   van Schouwenburg, Martine R ^a,b   Geurts, Dirk E M ^a,b   Schellekens, Arnt F A ^b   Buitelaar, Jan K ^b   Verkes, Robbert Jan ^b   Cools, Roshan ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Bromocriptine; Diffusion tensor imaging; Dopamine; OFC; Reversal learning; Striatum; Sulpiride

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; BROMOCRIPTINE MESILATE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; PLACEBO; PROLACTIN; SULPIRIDE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84898024522     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00142     Document Type: Article

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