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Role of the medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens in an operant model of checking behaviour and uncertainty

BACKGROUND: Excessive checking is a common, debilitating symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder. To further examine cognitive processes underpinning checking behaviour, and clarify how and why checking develops, we designed a novel operant paradigm for rats, the observing response task. The presen...

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Autores principales: d’Angelo, Camilla, Eagle, Dawn M., Coman, Cristina-M., Robbins, Trevor W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29900415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2398212817733403