The neural circuitry of reward and its relevance to psychiatric disorders

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 391-399

  Chau, David T ^b   Roth, Robert M ^b   Green, Alan I ^a  

^a Dartmouth Health   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CLOZAPINE; DOPAMINE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 9944221464     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-004-0026-8     Document Type: Review

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