Activation of dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens promotes sucrose-reinforced cued approach behavior

Dopamine receptor activation in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) promotes vigorous environmentally-cued food-seeking in hungry rats. Rats fed ad libitum, however, respond to fewer food-predictive cues, particularly when the value of food reward is low. Here, we investigated whether this difference could...

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Main Authors: Saleem M. Nicola, Johann du Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00144/full