Changes in activities of dopamine and serotonin systems in the frontal cortex underlie poor choice accuracy and impulsivity of rats in an attention task

Neuroscience

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 489-499

  Puumala, T ^a   Sirvio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention deficit; Dopemine; Five choice serial reaction time task; Impulsivity; Rat; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DOPAMINE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0031906574     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00392-8     Document Type: Article

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