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Received for publication October 9, 2002.
Revised October 23, 2002.
Accepted for publication December 10, 2002.
For several decades, it has been suggested that dopamine (DA), especially in nucleus accumbens, mediates the primary reinforcing characteristics of natural stimuli such as food, as well as drugs of abuse. Yet, several fundamental aspects of primary food reinforcement, motivation, and appetite are left intact after interference with accumbens DA transmission. Recent studies have shown that accumbens DA is involved in responsiveness to conditioned stimuli and activational aspects of motivation. In concurrent choice tasks, accumbens DA depletions cause animals to reallocate their choice behavior in the direction of instrumental behaviors that involve less effort. Also, an emerging body of evidence has demonstrated that the effects of accumbens DA depletions on instrumental food-seeking behavior can vary greatly depending upon the task. For example, some schedules are insensitive to the effects of DA depletions while others are highly sensitive (e.g., large fixed ratios). Accumbens DA depletions slow the rate of responding, blunt the rate-facilitating effects of moderate sized ratios, and enhance the rate-suppressing effects of very large ratios (i.e., produce ratio strain). Accumbens DA may be important for enabling rats to overcome behavioral constraints such as work-related response costs, and may be critical for the behavioral organization and conditioning processes that enable animals to engage in vigorous responses such as barrier climbing, or to emit large numbers of responses in ratio schedules in the absence of primary reinforcement. The involvement of accumbens DA in activational aspects of motivation has implications for energy-related disorders in psychiatry, as well as aspects of drug-seeking behavior.
Key words:
apathy, behavioral activation, depression, psychomotor slowing, reinforcement, reward
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