Intra-amygdala infusions of scopolamine impair performance on a conditioned place preference task but not a spatial radial maze task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-226

  McIntyre, Christa K ^a   Ragozzino, Michael E ^a,b   Gold, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Amygdata; Conditioned place preference; Muscarinic pharmacology; Scopolamine; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; INJECTIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCOPOLAMINE;

EID: 0031691703     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00161-7     Document Type: Article

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