Nucleus Accumbens and Posterior Amygdala Mediate Cue-Triggered Alcohol Seeking and Suppress Behavior during the Omission of Alcohol-Predictive Cues

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2555-2565

  Millan, E Zayra ^a   Reese, Rebecca M ^a   Grossman, Cooper D ^a   Chaudhri, Nadia ^b   Janak, Patricia H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL SEEKING BEHAVIOR; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL AMYGDALA; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ALCOHOLISM; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HEARING; LONG EVANS RAT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REINFORCEMENT;

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ETHANOL; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84941316038     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.102     Document Type: Article

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