Electrolytic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex in rats disrupt performance on an analog of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, but do not disrupt latent inhibition: Implications for animal models of schizophrenia

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-201

  Joel, Daphna ^a   Weiner, Ina ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal model; Conditioned emotional response; Delayed non match to sample; Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; Frontal cortex; Infralimbic cortex; Latent inhibition; Learning; Medical prefrontal cortex; Psychosis; Rat; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0030944464     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)87583-3     Document Type: Article

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