Rats Self-Administer Nonrewarding Brain Stimulation to Ameliorate Aversion
- 19 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 215 (4539), 1516-1517
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7063859
Abstract
Hypothalamic stimulation in rats both reduces escape from noxious hindbrain stimulation and sustains self-administration only when hindbrain stimulation is inescapable. Self-administration reflects an aversion-ameliorative action of brain stimulation and not a positive reinforcement process. The psychophysical testing used is offered as a model for establishing the analgesic properties of brain stimulation.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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