Silencing the critics: understanding the effects of cocaine sensitization on dorsolateral and ventral striatum in the context of an actor/critic model.

Indeed in a prior study in which initial learning was carefully examined, cocaine-treated rats showed a small but nearly significant improvement in acquisition of the initial discrimination problem learned (Schoenbaum et al., 2004 ), and we have observed a similar facilitation in accumbens-lesioned rats (Schoenbaum and Setlow, 2003 ).

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