Nicotine enhances sustained attention in the rat under specific task conditions

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 266-274

  Mirza, Naheed R ^a,b   Stolerman, Ian P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Cerebrus Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nicotine; Sustained attention; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGENT;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031904827     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050671     Document Type: Article

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