Optogenetic excitation of central amygdala amplifies and narrows incentive motivation to pursue one reward above another

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 16567-16580

  Robinson, Mike J F ^a,b   Warlow, Shelley M ^a   Berridge, Kent C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central amygdala; Motivation; Optogenetics; Reward

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; SUCROSE;

ADDICTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE; VIRUS EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MOTIVATION; OPTOGENETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUCROSE;

EID: 84916608125     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2013-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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