Effect of destruction of the 5-hydroxytryptaminergic pathways on the acquisition of temporal discrimination and memory for duration in a delayed conditional discrimination task

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-110

  Al Zahrani, S S A ^a   Ho, M Y ^a   Velazquez Martinez, D N ^a,b   Lopez Cabrera, M ^a,c   Bradshaw, C M ^a   Szabadi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

5,7 Dihydroxytryptamine; 5 Hydroxytryptamine; Memory for duration; Operant behaviour; Time discrimination

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; 5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; BRAIN MONOAMINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030032845     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02246287     Document Type: Article

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