Probabilistic learning and reversal deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease or frontal or temporal lobe lesions: Possible adverse effects of dopaminergic medication

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 596-612

  Swainson, R ^a   Rogers, R D ^a   Sahakian, B J ^a   Summers, B A ^b   Polkey, C E ^c   Robbins, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrent; Cortical; Dopamine; Reward; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE PLUS LEVODOPA; BROMOCRIPTINE; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; PERGOLIDE; ROPINIROLE; SELEGILINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG SAFETY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PARKINSON DISEASE; REWARD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOSTRIATUM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033951302     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00103-7     Document Type: Article

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