The medial prefrontal cortex is crucial for the maintenance of persistent licking and the expression of incentive contrast

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Parent, Marc A ^a,b   Amarante, Linda M ^c   Liu, Benjamine ^d   Weikum, Damian ^d   Laubach, Mark ^c  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Learning; Muscimol; Optogenetics; Prefrontal cortex; Reward processing; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUID INTAKE; LEARNING; LICKING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; OPERANT BEHAVIORAL TEST; OPTOGENETICS; PERSISTENT LICKING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; REWARD;

EID: 84927625257     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2015.00023     Document Type: Article

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