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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Brain Res. 2016 Oct 11;317:542–552. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.10.012

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Experimental timeline. Rats underwent surgery to implant cannulae into either the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) or basolateral amygdala (BLA) and then were allowed approximately one week to recover. Following recovery rats underwent 3 (PFC group) or 4 (BLA group) behavioral tests over the course of ~3 weeks: the social interaction test, the sucrose preference test, the social preference test and finally a test of locomotor activity (BLA group only). Prior to each test, rats were infused with BMI (0 – 50 ng/μl/side). Following the completion of behavioral testing rats were perfused, their brains extracted and then their cannulae placements assessed.