The ascending mesolimbic cholinergic system - A specific division of the reticular activating system involved in the initiation of negative emotional states

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 436-445

  Brudzynski, Stefan M ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

22 kHz alarm calls; Acetylcholine; Aversive state; Diffuse ascending pathways; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Limbic system; Muscarinic receptors; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METHACHOLINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; OXOTREMORINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; RACLOPRIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

AROUSAL; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; FOREBRAIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM;

EID: 84905042234     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: 15591166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-013-0179-1     Document Type: Review

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