Insular and ventrolateral orbitofrontal cortices differentially contribute to goal-directed behavior in rodents

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 2313-2325

  Parkes, Shauna L ^a,b,c   Ravassard, Pascal M ^a,c   Cerpa, Juan Carlos ^a,c   Wolff, Mathieu ^a,c   Ferreira, Guillaume ^b,c   Coutureau, Etienne ^a,c  

^a UMR 5287   (France)

^b NutriNeuro Bordeaux University   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Action; DREADD; Instrumental conditioning; Outcome devaluation; Reversal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; RODENT; STIMULUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT;

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GOALS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85061905857     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx132     Document Type: Article

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