Insights into the role of the habenular circadian clock in addiction

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Salaberry, Nora L ^a   Mendoza, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Addiction; Circadian system; Dopamine; Drug of abuse; Habenula

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MELANOPSIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; SEROTONIN;

BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; FIRING RATE; HABENULA; HUMAN; LATERAL HABENULA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; SLEEP PATTERN; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 84964582927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00179     Document Type: Short Survey

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