GABAA receptor drugs and neuronal plasticity in reward and aversion: Focus on the ventral tegmental area

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Vashchinkina, Elena ^a   Panhelainen, Anne ^b   Aitta aho, Teemu ^a,c   Korpi, Esa R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Dendritic spines; Dopamine neurons; GABAA receptor; Neuroadaptation; Neurosteroids; THIP

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BICUCULLINE; DIAZEPAM; ETOMIDATE; FLURAZEPAM; GABOXADOL; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCIMOL; NEUROSTEROID; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER 2; PROPOFOL; ZOLPIDEM;

ADDICTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CHANNEL GATING; CONFUSION; DENDRITIC SPINE; DIZZINESS; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HABENULA; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; LATERAL HABENULA; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SLEEP DISORDER; SYNAPTOSOME; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 84910650774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2014.00256     Document Type: Article

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