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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2022 Dec 5;240(3):575–594. doi: 10.1007/s00213-022-06287-2

Table 1.

Phasic responses of prelimbic neurons separated into classes based on epoch (pre- vs. post-lever press) and direction of response (excitation (↑), inhibition (↓), not significant (-))

Self-Admin
Significant: 110/259 (42.6%)
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post

- -
16 (6.2%) 2 (0.8%) 14 (5.4%) 28 (10.8%)
- -
15 (5.8%) 3 (1.2%) 14 (5.4%) 18 (7.0%)
Early Ext Significant: 65/283 (23.0%)
- -
15 (5.3%) 0 (0%) 12 (4.2%) 13 (4.6%)
- -
7 (2.5%) 0 (0%) 9 (3.2%) 9 (3.2%)
Late Ext Significant: 24/162 (14.9%)
- -
7 (4.3%) 0 (0%) 2 (1.2%) 2 (1.2%)
- -
2 (1.2%) 0 (0%) 6 (3.7%) 5 (3.1%)
Cue Reinst Significant: 98/255 (38.5%)
- -
17 (6.7%) 2 (0.8%) 14 (5.5%) 24 (9.4%)
- -
15 (5.9%) 1 (0.4%) 12 (4.7%) 13 (5.1%)
Coc Reinstat Significant: 82/195 (42.2%)
- -
14 (7.2%) 2 (1.0%) 15 (7.7%) 10 (5.1%)
- -
11 (5.6%) 1 (0.5%) 16 (8.2%) 13 (6.7%)

For each stage of the study (self-administration, early and late extinction, and cue-induced and cocaine-induced reinstatement), neurons are separated into 8 categories based on whether or not they were significantly excited or inhibited in the 2-s epoch pre and/or post lever press