The lateral habenula circuitry: Reward processing and cognitive control

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 11482-11488

  Baker, Phillip M ^a   Jhou, Thomas ^b   Li, Bo ^c   Matsumoto, Masayuki ^d   Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a   Stephenson Jones, Marcus ^c   Vicentic, Aleksandra ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Cognition; Globus pallidus; Lateral habenula; Punishment; Reward; Rostromedial tegmental nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG ABUSE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HABENULA; LATERODORSAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HABENULA; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REWARD;

EID: 84994726616     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2350-16.2016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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