Stressed and wired: The effects of stress on the VTA circuits underlying motivated behavior

DC Lowes, AZ Harris - Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stress affects many brain regions, including the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which is
critically involved in reward processing. Excessive stress can reduce reward-seeking …

Drug reinforcement impairs cognitive flexibility by inhibiting striatal cholinergic neurons

H Gangal, X **e, Z Huang, Y Cheng, X Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Addictive substance use impairs cognitive flexibility, with unclear underlying mechanisms.
The reinforcement of substance use is mediated by the striatal direct-pathway medium spiny …

Prelimbic cortex neural encoding dynamically tracks expected outcome value

M Niedringhaus, EA West - Physiology & Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Animals must modify their behavior based on updated expected outcomes in a changing
environment. Prelimbic cortex (PrL) neural encoding during learning predicts, and is …

CRF receptor type 1 modulates the nigrostriatal dopamine projection and facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress

S Becchi, CL Burton, M Tsoukalas, J Bowring… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) impairs cognitive flexibility in rats, particularly when
faced with additional mild acute stress (AS). We tested the hypothesis that this impairment is …

THE INFLUENCE OF ADOLESCENT ANOREXIA NERVOSA SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS ON ANXIETY IN YOUNG ADULT FEMALE RATS AND FEMALE UNIVERSITY …

MD Karth - 2023 - hammer.purdue.edu
Activity-based anorexia (ABA) is a rodent model of anorexia nervosa (AN) that induces
several key components of AN, including voluntary reduction in food intake, reduced body …

[CITATION][C] 奖励性操作条件反射实验在学**记忆研究中的应用

张亦文, 姚彩虹, 孙欣然, 陈善广, 刘新民, 姜宁 - **实验动物学报, 2023