A Rat Is Trained to Self-Administer Cocaine

question 114

Multiple Choice

A rat is trained to self-administer cocaine. Saline is substituted for the cocaine solution, which results in extinction of responding. In this situation, the capacity for a "free" shot of cocaine to reinstate responding for cocaine can be blocked by

• A) injection of AMPA into the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
• B) injection of a dopamine agonist into the nucleus accumbens.
• C) glutamate induced activation of the ventral tegmental area.
• D) injection of a dopamine agonist into the prefrontal cortex.
• E) injection of glycine into the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

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