Rewarding actions of phencyclidine and related drugs in nucleus accumbens shell and frontal cortex.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience May 1, 1996 W A Carlezon, R A Wise
Rats learned to lever-press when such behavior was reinforced by microinjections of phencyclidine (PCP) directly into the ventromedial (shell) region of nucleus accumbens, indicating that the drug has direct rewarding actions in that region. Separate groups of rats learned to lever-press when reinforced with microinjections of dizoclipine (MK-801) or...