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Voluntary Running-Wheel Exercise Decreases the Threshold for Rewarding Intracranial Self-Stimulation.

Physical exercise has mood-enhancing and antidepressant properties although the mechanisms underly-ing these effects are not known. The present experiment investigated the effects of prolonged access to a running wheel on electrical self-stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus (LHSS), a measure of h...

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Published in:Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 126; no. 4; pp. 582 - 588
Main Authors: Morris, Michael J., Na, Elisa S., Johnson, Alan Kim
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Aug2012
Subjects:
Exercise & psychology
Mental depression
Brain stimulation
Hypothalamus physiology
Brain function localization
Laboratory rats
Anhedonia
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost