Heterogeneity of dopamine neuron activity across traits and states

Neuroscience

Volumn 282, Issue , 2014, Pages 176-197

  Marinelli, M ^a   McCutcheon, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Bursting; Drug addiction; Firing; Phasic; Tonic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NICOTINE; OPIATE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; QUINPIROLE;

AGE; ANESTHESIA; AVERSION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL MOTION; CELL STRUCTURE; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REVIEW; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRESS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEGMENTUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WAKEFULNESS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; MESENCEPHALON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; SPIKE WAVE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MESENCEPHALON; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84906246805     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.034     Document Type: Review

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