Optogenetic Central Amygdala Stimulation Intensifies and Narrows Motivation for Cocaine
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Optogenetic Central Amygdala Stimulation Intensifies and Narrows Motivation for Cocaine.
Addiction is often characterized by intense motivation for a drug, which may be narrowly focused at the expense of other rewards. Here, we examined the role of amygdala-related circuitry in the amplification and narrowing of motivation focus for intravenous cocaine. We paired optogenetic channelrhodopsin (ChR2) stimulation in either central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) or basolateral amygdala (BLA...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3141-16.2017