Doubly dissociable effects of median- and dorsal-raphe lesions on the performance of the five-choice serial reaction time test of attention in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 135-149

  Harrison, Amanda A ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Hippocampus; Impulsivity; Raphe nucleus; Serotonin; Striatum

Indexed keywords

5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; DOPAMINE; MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS;

EID: 0031413240     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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