Accelerated habit formation following amphetamine exposure is reversed by D1, but enhanced by D2, receptor antagonists

Repeated exposure to the psychostimulant amphetamine has been shown to disrupt goal-directed instrumental actions and promote the early and abnormal development of goal-insensitive habitual responding (Nelson and Killcross, 2006). To investigate the neuropharmacological specificity of this effect as...

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Main Authors: Andrew John Dudley Nelson, Simon eKillcross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00076/full