Cortico-Accumbens Regulation of Approach-Avoidance Behavior Is Modified by Experience and Chronic Pain

Cortico-Accumbens Regulation of Approach-Avoidance Behavior Is Modified by Experience and Chronic Pain

Although optimizing decisions between drives to avoid pain and to obtain reward are critical for survival, understanding the neuronal circuit activity that regulates choice during approach-avoidance conflicts is limited. Here, we recorded neuronal activity in the infralimbic (IL) cortex and nucleus...

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Main Authors: Neil Schwartz, Catriona Miller, Howard L. Fields
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Cell Reports
Subjects:
approach-avoidance
pain
chronic pain
infralimbic
accumbens
ventral striatum
motivation
choice
vmPFC
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124717306022

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