Dopamine invigorates reward seeking by promoting cue-evoked excitation in the nucleus accumbens

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 14349-14364

  du Hoffmann, Johann ^a   Nicola, Saleem M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue excited neurons; Discriminative stimulus; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens; Reward seeking

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; RACLOPRIDE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG EVANS RAT; MICROINJECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

ANIMALS; CUES; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 84908002834     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3492-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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