The motivational drive to natural rewards is modulated by prenatal glucocorticoid exposure

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Soares Cunha, C ^a,b   Coimbra, B ^a,b   Borges, S ^a,b   Carvalho, M M ^a,b   Rodrigues, A J ^a,b   Sousa, N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; INFANT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PAVLOVIAN INSTRUMENTAL TRANSFER; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ADULTHOOD; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HABIT; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SALIENCE NETWORK; TRAINING; ADDICTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84901982896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.45     Document Type: Article

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