Motivational activation: A unifying hypothesis of orexin/hypocretin function

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1298-1303

  Mahler, Stephen V ^a   Moorman, David E ^a,b   Smith, Rachel J ^a   James, Morgan H ^a   Aston Jones, Gary ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OREXIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; OREXINS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; REVIEW; REWARD; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEUROPEPTIDES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84918823389     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3810     Document Type: Review

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