Cytotoxic lesion of the medial prefrontal cortex abolishes the partial reinforcement extinction effect, attenuates prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex and induces transient hyperlocomotion, while sparing spontaneous object recognition memory in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 675-689

  Yee, B K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Attention; Frontal cortex; Locomotor activity; Reward; Schizophrenia; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CYTOTOXICITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0032761573     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00441-8     Document Type: Article

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