A potential role for the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus in mediating individual variation in Pavlovian conditioned responses

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Haight, Joshua L ^a   Flagel, Shelly B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cue learning; Goal tracking; Incentive salience; Incentive stimuli; Motivated behavior; Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus; Sign tracking

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MOTIVATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REWARD; SUBCORTEX;

EID: 84921001425     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00079     Document Type: Article

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