Spatial learning and performance in the radial arm maze is impaired after N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blockade in striatal subregions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 703-717

  Smith Roe, Stephanie L ^b   Sadeghian, Kenneth ^b   Kelley, Ann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032888401     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.4.703     Document Type: Article

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