Cocaine exposure shifts the balance of associative encoding from ventral to dorsolateral striatum

Both dorsal and ventral striatum are implicated in the "habitization" of behavior that occurs in addiction. Here we examined the effect of cocaine exposure on associative encoding in these two regions. Neural activity was recorded during go/no-go discrimination learning and reversa...

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Main Authors: Yuji Takahashi, Matthew R Roesch, Thomas A Stalnaker, Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2007-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.07.011.2007/full