Glucocorticoid receptor impairment enhances impulsive responding in transgenic mice performing on a simultaneous visual discrimination task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2559-2569

  Steckler, Thomas ^a   Sauvage, Magdalena ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural disinhibition; Glucocorticoid receptor; GR antisense transgene; Impulsivity; Signal detection theory; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSGENES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033930885     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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