Anhedonia, Reduced Cocaine Reward, and Dopamine Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 871-879

  Enman, Nicole M ^a   Arthur, Kayti ^a   Ward, Sara J ^a   Perrine, Shane A ^b   Unterwald, Ellen M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; Posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD; Reward; Self administration

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE TISSUE LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOWN REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; TISSUE LEVEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; NEOSTRIATUM; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84947231773     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.04.024     Document Type: Article

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