Imbalanced Activity in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and Nucleus Accumbens Impairs Behavioral Inhibition

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 2834-2839

  Meyer, Heidi C ^a   Bucci, David J ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; associative learning; chemogenetics; conditioning; DREADDs; learning; negative occasion setting; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; IMPULSIVENESS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT;

ANIMALS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 84994711600     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.034     Document Type: Article

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